Our first weekday of the summer holidays
has been just about perfect. It was
sunny and hot, with just one little late-afternoon thundershower rolling
through that didn’t really get in the way of anything because we were having
dinner at the time anyway.
While I missed out on seeing Dad off on his
trip to the city; starting the day with Tai Chi for two by the river at Michael’s
house was really great, and so was having a second breakfast in a row with his
family – this one cooked by Jacob while Jake and Stephanie slept in. Since Monday and Tuesday is the Stone family ‘weekend’;
Michael had major chores to do all morning; and I helped him out with that so
that he could get done sooner and we could get on to the play time with Rowen
and Tim.
When we were set free, we put a picnic
lunch together; hopped on our bikes; and went over to the park to hang out
there; ride the trails; and enjoy the hot, beautiful day. We followed that up with swimming at my house
that we took Ethan and Ehlana with us for that gave Alicia a break from the
babysitting action while Mom was at the lab with Owen and Andrew. I was with Michael for dinner at his house;
though we didn’t go over there again until after Mom was home again and Alicia
was finished working for the day.
I guess that the little thundershower did
affect our dinner plans a bit, since we were indoors for that instead of out on
the back porch, but then it was fairly humid and over a hundred by then; so we
might have been indoors for that anyway.
Whether the rain affected that or not, the food was awesome; and getting
to do more family meals with Michael at his house all summer is going to be
really great! The little bit of rain had
ended in time for his baseball practice; and the ground had pretty much soaked
it all up and was dry again in what seemed like moments. While Michael went to meet up with Tim and
the rest of their teammates for their practice, I went home first to collect
Ethan and Ehlana before meeting up with Rowen so that we could play with them
while the boys were busy. Their practice
was fairly serious, since they have a game on Saturday, and Ethan and Ehlana
kept Rowen and me busy at the playground; so we were all ready to cool off with
a long swim after getting home again.
That had been a great way to end the play
time parts of our day, but then it was time to go in for the night; and our
string of camping and sleepover nights came to an end with a round of goodnight
hugs and kisses before Ethan, Ehlana, and I went inside and Michael, Rowen, and
Tim all headed off to their own homes. I
helped Mom with getting the twins into bed for the night; she did a Magi lesson
with me after that; and then I came straight up to my room to get started on
some family business work to go along with my summer-schedule bedtime
computing.
Even with the Magi lesson and work, I’m
still going to be sleeping before midnight again, which is a good thing; since
Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I are going to do our first canoe trip to the whirlpool
tomorrow. I’m going to get to that nap
time really soon, but let’s clean up a couple of news details from around town
first.
First up, with all of the work and Father’s
Day action yesterday; I didn’t really end up getting the grad party reports
from Rowen and Tim until today while we were biking and having our picnic at
the park. His Aunt and Uncle apparently
put on the best grad party in years for Kyle and his classmates; which earned
them top marks for coolest parents of the week.
While they were worker bees instead of party guests; Rowen and Tim still
loved getting to be there for the party along with the most popular older teens
in town; and all of that fun just has Tim even more determined than ever to be
a high school football hero like his cousin.
Next on the list is just a minor news item
about Jenny that came up at dinnertime today.
She’s going to start helping out at the Inn again with Rebecca for the
summer, and while Miranda’s still going to work that out with them; it should
be interesting for Michael and me to be hanging out with both of them again
whenever I help out there too. I’ll take
a wild guess that at least part of Jenny’s decision for that had something to
do with her other summer activities options at home or helping out at the
Fix-it Shop – or whatever other money-making opportunities she had available;
but I’m glad that she will be spending more time with Rebecca and me too.
Finally, for Rebecca, she’s still in the
process of figuring out what dating a ‘farm kid’ is going to be like. I don’t envy her and Lucas for that – living just
down the street from my boyfriend and getting to do stuff with him pretty much
every day is way better than figuring out how to juggle farm chores and work at
the Inn with finding common free time to spend together – particularly when
getting rides back and forth between town and farm has to be worked out
too. Lucas’ day starts early on the farm
too, so even though his father cut him some slack with the two camping
adventures he has done with us; he probably won’t get to do that with us
regularly either. We’ll see how that
goes, but if Rebecca starts looking as though she isn’t getting enough
boyfriend time; Michael and I might just have to get creative and
intervene. I’ll keep you posted on that.
Okay, I think we’re done with the news, and
I really do want to be at full power for our canoe trip to the whirlpool; so,
until next time…
…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the
Light!
