Happy 1st Anniversary, Uncle
Mark and Aunt Grace!
Happy 1st Anniversary since we officially started dating, Michael!
Welcome home for your summer vacations
Dawn, Jillian, Jaimie, Kaitlyn, and Jayden!
I guess that I should have done that for Jonathan, Kara, Eddie, and
Nicole on Thursday, but since I didn’t; consider it done now.
I’m glad that my cousins are here, and
Dawn, Jillian, and I have had fun tonight after I got home from the Inn; but I’ve
basically missed out on all of the action today up until then while I was busy
helping out with the holiday weekend buffets.
It’s been a really long day too, so this is going to be one of those
short reports.
Tai Chi by the river was good; breakfast at
Michael’s with his family was great; and the church service in the park was
best-ever-so-far kind of awesome!
Michael and I loved every minute of that hour and a half blast of
high-energy fun, and I’ll humbly agree with our families and friends that we –
the teen praise team – did a great job today.
There’s so much more that I could write about that, but then again, if
you’re really interested; the service was recorded and is probably already
posted on the church intranet site; so feel free to look it u and watch for
yourselves.
The next nine hours or so was all work with
a little bit of play time here and there.
Rebecca, Jenny, and I worked together most of the time; though I helped
Michael out on dishwashing duty a few times too when that end of the process
started getting bogged down toward the end of each buffet sitting and the start
of the next. It was also very hot again
today – back into the triple digits both outside and in the kitchen. We did have regular, short breaks; but we
spent most of that time jumping in the river for a quick swim; drying off; and
getting something to drink and eat before getting right back into the fray.
My family was at the Inn for the last buffet
of the night as a joint anniversary party and welcome home dinner for the
cousins; but I didn’t join them for that – even though Miranda tried to get me
to do that. I’ve got one or two weeks to
spend with my cousins, and while I missed out on the anniversary party too; I
wouldn’t have spent any time to speak of with my aunt and uncle anyway – I’d
have been on kid control. I was also a
sweaty, wrung-out mess by then too; so I’m sure that my family and the other
diners were just as happy not to have me in the room with them; if you know
what I mean.
Michael, Rebecca, Jenny, and I were set
free a little before the clean-up was done and Jake and Stephanie were ready to
close up for the night; so we went back to my house; Jonathan joined us there; and
we went swimming for an hour or so – along with Dawn, Jillian, Violet, Dillon,
Ethan, and Ehlana. Jake and Stephanie
joined us after they were done work too; and then they hung out with Violet and
Dillon for a while before going home with Michael and Rebecca at around eleven
o’clock. Dillon went home then too,
while Jonathan and Jenny headed off somewhere to hang out together for however
long they stayed up before going to bed.
I had some chat time with Violet, Dawn, and
Jillian after helping to get Ethan and Ehlana off to bed; and then we
collectively decided to get some sleep and finish playing catch-up in the
morning. Dawn and Jillian each have
their own rooms this year, since that’s what they wanted to do; so Mandy and I
are on our own tonight – which makes doing this and the rest of my usual
bedtime computing much easier. We’re
just doing a no-plan play day tomorrow, but I’m sure we’ll also going to be
busy, and camping may be an option too; so I’d better finish this up and call
it a night.
This Fourth of July holiday weekend might
not rate best-ever-so-far for me, but it has been awesome; and I’m sure that
the next couple of weeks will be just as amazing!
Stay tuned, and I’ll keep you posted, but
for now; until next time...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of
the Light!
