Okay, sometimes you’ve got to love it when a plan completely
backfires!
For the last game night of the year, Miranda set up another boys
against the girls competition; hoping to have Mom help her to have championship
bragging rights until the New Year. The
absolutely hilarious problem she had with that was Dad helping Jacob to win the
senior championship instead! Yeah, I
know, Jacob never wins at game night; but you’re reading this in the future, so
go look it up if you don’t believe me.
That was possibly my favorite game night moment ever so far;
and everyone there had a lot of fun with it – even Miranda. I have no idea what motivated Jacob to play
as well as he did tonight, but while that whole scene was a blast; none of us
should have been surprised that he could play well and win if he really wanted
to do that. After all, he’s a chef;
incredibly good with his hands; and though he doesn’t get a chance to play
sports very often, he’s very athletic too.
There’s a very good chance that Miranda was reminded of at
least two of those facts after they got home and went to bed; but I don’t want
to go there any more than Michael or Rebecca did when their parents started
talking about Jacob needing to make it up to his wife after depriving her of
her year-end game night glory. Again, to
all of the parents – and grandparents, for that matter – out there, we’re not
suggesting that sex should be over for you at any age; but we are saying that
your under-age kids don’t need to know any details.
Okay, that was the highlight of the night, but we’ve had a
pretty good day too. Michael stayed for
Tai Chi and breakfast; he and I had more music practice fun at school; and our
fun at the Inn tonight started with a study session with Tim, Rowen, and
Rebecca before moving on to three of us working in the kitchen. Since Dad is in the city next week, he and
Aunt Leanne were doing a work Christmas dinner at the Inn. Families were invited this year, so all of
the Nortons were there; along with the families of some of their contractors
and suppliers. Michael and I had our
little dinner break in the dining room so we could sit in on part of that fun;
but we went back to work again to help with the clean-up until it was time to
start the gaming action.
We were late getting home from the Inn, so Mom skipped Magi
lessons, and I came up to my room to get started on some quality Jacuzzi time
while Ethan and Ehlana were getting some tub time too ahead of their Friday
KidZone play date. I’ve missed out on
tucking them in for the night, but I really did want to stick with my early
bedtime plans; which is why I’m doing this right before getting out of the tub
so I can head straight for bed once I’ve done my hair and hopped into some
comfy pajamas. The next few days are
going to be crazy – though I should probably just say that for nearly every day
between now and after New Year’s Day.
I’ll need to keep up with my family business work; but I’m now seriously
considering dropping the language and archive studies until after the
holidays. We’ll see how it goes. That is all I have for tonight, though, and I
still have a chance at a pre-midnight bedtime; so...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
