My top happy thought tonight is that Violet and Dillon will
be home for their Thanksgiving break in just five days!
That news wasn’t even on my radar all day, but Violet sent
me her usual Sunday night email update; and now I’m really looking forward to
having them home again – even if they’ll only be here for four full days; and
we’ll need to share them with Dillon’s family.
I wish that Jake and Stephanie could come home too, but they are going
to spend the long weekend together; and will probably love their first
Thanksgiving on their own – and the New
York City holiday shopping experience too.
My day wasn’t big-city-shopping exciting, but Michael,
Ethan, Ehlana, and I mostly managed to have fun. I’d say that Mom and Dad didn’t because of
all the work they had to do this afternoon, but then they were just a bit too
happy to have worked all afternoon while I was out with Ethan and Ehlana. Let’s just not go any further down that
mental pathway and move along.
Michael came over for Tai Chi, but we split up for breakfast
and while getting ready for church. The
temperature climbed toward the seventies this afternoon, and that’s why Ethan,
Ehlana, and I spent most of our time enjoying the temporary break in the
weather. Rowen was busy with family
stuff today, so I was on my own with the twins until Michael joined us at the
park while on his afternoon break. We
spent a lot of time at the playground, went for a walk on the path around the
park, and Michael and Ethan played some football with some of the guys for
about a half hour while Ehlana and I watched the action from the bleachers and
talked with some of the girls who were hanging out there too. Tim wasn’t at the park today either, but we
did see him at the Inn for a few minutes when he stopped into the kitchen for a
visit before having dinner with his parents at the early buffet.
I took Ethan and Ehlana home when Michael needed to get back
to the Inn, but that was mostly so that I could get cleaned up and changed
before heading over to the Inn too. Helping out in the kitchen until the start of
the second buffet meant that I couldn’t really get dressed up for dinner, but I
did bring a sweater along to throw on before sitting down to eat with my
family. I don’t think that there was any
specific reason for it this week, but we had more customers that seating for
the first buffet; so Miranda had a waiting list for the second sitting – and
managed to turn over quite a few tables three times instead of the usual two
tonight. That meant more work for
everyone; and I was ready to get off of my feet by the time she advised me that
my parents, brother, and sister had gotten to the Inn at a bit after seven.
The food was as great as always, but my favorite part of
dinner was getting to take care of Zack while Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam took a
break and enjoyed their meals – and some grown-up chat time with the other
adults in our group. Ehlana was right
there to help me with Zack, but Aiden was at the Inn tonight too, so Ethan
spent most of his time with his best friend instead of with us. I would have loved it if Michael had been
able to join us too, and Jacob offered to let him do that; but he knew they
needed the help in the kitchen more.
That decision did get him out of work early, though, and he came home
with us to help me with the bedtime routine for Ethan and Ehlana while Dad
packed for his trip. Mom did a little
Magi lesson with all four of us too, and then we did story time with Dad before
he and Mom went to tuck Ethan and Ehlana in for the night while I spent five or
ten minutes saying goodnight to Michael in a mostly non-verbal sort of way.
I’ve been working on my computer since coming up to my room
after Michael went home; though that started out with some Jacuzzi time multi-tasking. I took a break while doing my hair and
getting ready for bed, and added in a little music play time on my keyboard too
before snuggling under the comforter with Mandy and getting back to my studies. It’s after two o’clock now, and we’ll be up early
to see Dad off on his way to the city; so I’m going to skip the details of that
work. Violet’s email was the most fun,
but I loved the updates from Stephanie and Christina too. Dawn’s weekend report was a bit rambling, but
there may be boyfriends in the near-future both for her and Jillian. It’s a bit weird to think that Dawn and I
could each be experiencing our first Christmas with boyfriends at the same
time; but that will only get seriously strange if she brings a boy here for the
family Christmas weekend. Chris or
Martin should reach that milestone long before Dawn does, but that actually
seems even weirder to me; so let’s just not go there at all.
Thinking about Chris and Martin bringing girls home for the
holidays to meet the extended family isn’t exactly where I wanted to end this
update, but I don’t really have anything else to add; and I’ll need a little
extra time now to move on to anything that isn’t be that kind of
scary-dream-worthy mental pictures.
Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays with Michael – and the potential for
more, quality make-out opportunities – will make for much happier dreams; so
I’m going to wrap this up and try my best to get there before falling asleep.
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
