We had a pretty good thunderstorm roll
through starting an hour or so before dawn, so the sleepover instead of camping
turned out to be a good call. It was
still raining off and on by the time we were up and ready for Tai Chi, so we
exercised indoors; and then it was girls’ day to cook breakfast for
everyone. Okay, not really, but we were
allowed to pick the cooking over the clean-up; and those of us conscious enough
to vote picked working on the pre-breakfast crew.
The rain also meant that we didn’t need to
rush around to get Lucas fed and back at home; though he did still need to get
there – and Rebecca, Rowen, Tim, and Michael all had work or morning chores to
get to as well. As mentioned, I cooked;
we had an entertaining time while eating our morning meal; and then the boys
cleaned up while the girls took their turn getting ready for the day. Once all of my friends had left and Alicia
had come over to take charge of Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden; I went to work
helping Mom with chores for an hour or so until the rain stopped; and then it
was outside for Dad and me and on to getting as many chores as we could ticked
off the to-do list before I needed to do a quick wash up and get to the park
for my first game of the season with the Vortex.
Rowen and Rebecca met me there, and we were
both in time for a short warm-up with Claire and our team; but Jenny was
running late and only got there as the game was about to start. Her hair was perfect, and her team shirt
immaculately tucked in without the slightest wrinkle showing; so the delay was
obviously worth it! ;^)
Honestly, I’m not picking on Jenny – just
recording one of the things that I find amusing about some teenage girls for
posterity. You have to admit that doing
all of that – particularly when you’re about to play a baseball game on a
recently rained on ball diamond – is fairly silly. Then again, so is playing to win the
cleanest, neatest clothes in the park award is about as silly – unless you can
get the rules of the game changed to reflect that on the scoreboard.
“Well, Jim, she struck out; but looks
fabulous! The umpire should give her top
style points for that!”
“Yes, I’m sure you’re right, Dave. Five out of five for sure!”
This update has definitely gone off the
rails!
Our game was against Ayres’ Avalanche, and
both teams had lots of family and friends support for the first game of the
season. Mom and Dad even had a mini
family picnic thing going on so that they could multi-task while watching the game. We kept them entertained for a couple of
hours too, but today at least, in the rock-paper-scissors of baseball games;
Avalanches cover Arctic Vortexes – by one run.
They were the home team, and won it during their last at-bat, so I’m not
crushed or anything, but I have mentioned a time or hundred that I like to win;
so getting the big ‘L’ in the record book today wasn’t all that much fun.
The good news for the day is that Rowen and
I had a little cheerleading squad with us for Michael and Tim’s game at three o’clock,
and while we can’t claim for sure that we had any impact at all on how well
Landry’s Lightning played; they did rather soundly get the win over Taylor’s
Thunder by a score of eleven-to-three.
If they keep winning when we’re cheering
for them, the other guys might even stop razzing Michael and Tim about not only
getting good luck hugs and kisses from their girlfriends; but from Ehlana,
Naomi, and Sophia too. Again, that is
hardly empirical evidence relating to the results on the scoreboard; but all of
that attention did have our boys fairly fired up by game time.
I should back up and mention that Michael
and Tim were both working, so they couldn’t watch all of our game, and with a
low score, we didn’t use up nearly all of the time we had available; but
Michael did catch the tail-end of our game and we had some time to hang out
between my game and his.
We also got to hang out together tonight
after he was finished work at the Inn; though the dinner rush was already on by
the time he got there after going home to get cleaned up first so he worked
with Jake and Stephanie until close.
They came over to our house too after work so they could hang out with
Violet and Dillon; though the four older teens did their own thing in the
living room while Michael and I first spent some time with Ethan and Ehlana
before tucking them in for the night; and then had two solid hours of alone
time in the lounge to play while not really watching a movie.
Future note to Violet, Dillon, Jake, and
Stephanie – the payback was funny tonight; but I really hope that you quit
while the joke is funny. Also, you didn’t
‘catch us’ doing anything we didn’t want you to see – I sensed you coming
before you hit the bottom step of the main staircase – on the first floor. You’d also be amazed at how quickly you can
recover from partial nudity when using a time-phase is an option. I had my shirt back on before you hit the
third step!
And off again once you were all back
downstairs again; but let’s not go there or it’ll be hours before I get any
sleep!
Without offering any more details, that
alone time with Michael was the highlight of our day; and way overdue. We are going to somehow find more time for us
to do that this summer – even if I have to start using time phases every day to
do that. Michael went home at midnight
because Jake and Stephanie had a bit more fun teasing us and telling him that
he needed to go home with them right away before he missed his curfew. They didn’t seem to think there was anything inconsistent
about ordering him home while Stephanie was spending the night at their house
and Dillon was staying at ours. Since we
did get to both have a little fun with four of our favorite college teens and
still get the alone time together too, I’ll cut them some slack on that
tonight.
I got ready for bed after Michael left with
Jake and Stephanie, so I was in bed before twelve-thirty; but got caught up in
a bit of family business work that came up via email; so it’s heading toward
two now, and past-time for me to call it a night. Aunt Grace’s birthday dinner at the Inn will
be the top event of the day, but that’s also pretty much the only thing we have
on the go other than church tomorrow; so it should be a fairly quiet day. I do still need some nap time even if we get
to just have a quiet, lazy day, though, so let’s call it a night. Until next time…
…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the
Light!
