Happy 33rd Birthday, Aunt
Leanne!
If the smiles we saw on the faces of the
three parents who were here tonight after their sleepover in the city was any
indication; they definitely had more fun last night than their kids did – and probably
this morning too. As mentioned with my
last update, and many others before it; I do not require or want the details;
but I am glad that they had fun – and that Aunt Leanne has had a happy
birthday.
Here at home, Tai Chi was for one for me
this morning; breakfast with the Emersons was very entertaining; and Rowen and
I managed to get ready for school with minimum bathroom time interference from
Patrick and Scott. At school, Halloween
is the top chat topic, and while the kids are getting very excited; the teens
are just as interested in the festivities too – particularly the dance a week
from tomorrow and the Haunted Halloween Walk on that Saturday night. The school Haunted House is being planned now
too, and some teens are working on it; but I haven’t helped out with any of
that yet – mostly because I’m already busy enough right now.
Our football game tomorrow night is
definitely on the news radar for the guys now too, and Tim is particularly
fired up. That’s partly because his
father and Uncle Lee are going to be there for the game; but mostly because
they’ll be leaving from there for their college football guys’ weekend away –
and he’s going to get to see Kyle play for his college team. Nobody will read this until long after that
game is played, but if the odds-makers knew that Kyle is going to be playing that
game with his father and cousin in the stadium; they might think about changing
the odds for his team. Since they
probably don’t know that; it could be a bad day for some gamblers.
That got a bit off-topic.
Michael’s excited about their trip too, but
he’s also wishing that I could be going along – and made sure that I know he’ll
miss me while he’s away. Maybe Tim will
do better with that for Rowen tomorrow night, but he’s been a bit oblivious to
that – and the difference between how Michael’s acting around me and what he’s
doing with Rowen. I can assure you that
Rowen has noticed, though, and while she understands; she’d also be a lot
happier if Tim would get a clue and realize just how much she’s going to miss
him this weekend. I’d mention something
about it to Michael, but it wouldn’t mean much to Rowen if Tim didn’t figure
this out on his own.
If you’re reading this some day in our
future, Tim, regardless of how you ended up handling that tomorrow; that kind
of thing still applies to girls of all ages. ;^)
Moving along, Rowen and I had our
cheerleading practice at lunchtime, and the weather was nice enough again to do
that outdoors. While Michael and Tim
were busy with their football practice after school; I went home to help Mom
with Ethan and Ehlana – and to get ready for Aunt Leanne’s birthday dinner at
the Inn. That needed to start early
enough to not get in the way of game night, and since Michael was being allowed
to do that with me; he barely had time to get cleaned up and changed after his
practice before needing to meet us in the dining room at the Inn.
He and I were a bit on the edges of the
action during the dinner because we were on kid control duty with all of the
younger kids except for Zack – though he came to hang out with us a couple of
times too when he got bored with what the grown-ups were doing. It’s sometimes a bit strange to do these
little family and friends events now that I am one of the teens and expected to
help out with the kids; but the only thing I really miss with that is getting
to spend time with Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne – or some of my other, favorite
adults. That won’t ever be the same as
it was when Mom and I first moved here and I got to have Mom, Dad, and Aunt
Leanne to myself a lot of the time, but the trade-offs have been fairly
awesome; so I’ll try not to feel too sad about what we don’t have time for or
can’t do anymore.
While we weren’t in the middle of the
action during dinner, Michael and I did have fun with the twins and the other
kids; and game night was great too. We
didn’t win the junior championship this week, but Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam
won the senior title for her birthday. I’m
sure that doesn’t surprise anyone reading this in the future who knows that
they’re usually near the top of the rankings anyway, but in this particular
case; there was some scoring irregularities that kept moving them up to the top
of the scoreboard pretty much regardless of how they actually did in each game. That does happen occasionally on game nights
for other people too; but it was apparently a first for Aunt Leanne; and I’m
not sure how she felt about it.
You would have won anyway, Aunt Leanne; and
your friends would have realized that if they hadn’t started having more fun
with playing that little birthday game with you. Do you feel better about that now? Yes, I could have told you that tonight; but
isn’t it more fun this way? Happy
Birthday again whenever it is in the future that you’re reading this!
All of that fun meant that Michael and I
still needed to do our homework after we got home, and we did that at his house
– and got sent there right after the games ended while his parents took care of
the clean-up. Miranda teased us about
our total lack of progress on that when they got home with Rebecca, but trust
me; the minor make-out session while we had the alone time opportunity was
worth getting teased about and needing to stay up later doing our homework –
and the rest of my work and studying tonight.
I’d better not spend any more time thinking
about that or I might not get to sleep right away – which I need to do now that
I’m down to having a couple of hours or so of nap time before I’ll need to be
up and running again.
It was eleven by the time I got home. Ethan and Ehlana were already sleeping by
then, but Mom was doing some work in the office. We did my Magi lesson while she kept working,
and she mostly just supervised while I practiced my lesson. I was ready for some Jacuzzi time after that;
and multi-tasked that with my language and archives studies. It was one-thirty by the time I crawled into
bed with Mandy, and I still had all of my family business work to get done
along with the usual nightly computer checks.
That was more than two hours ago, and while I’m tired; it’s not as bad as
I expected it to be thanks to that extra nap time at Rowen’s last night.
We won’t get to do that Friday night,
though, and while Rowen and I are doing another sleepover; it won’t be starting
until after we get home from the game.
With the boys away, we’ll probably be sitting up late too – and possibly
watching Halloween movies. I’m sure that’ll
keep us from envisioning scary college stories with our boyfriends in starring
roles!
Okay, that’s pretty much it for tonight,
and I really should get started on that nap now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
