As I’m sure that you can guess, my sofa
sleepover with Michael was a big news story with our families and friends
today. That didn’t have anything to do
with why I spent most of my time at home – I just had things to do there and
didn’t want to stay up late to get all of my work done either.
The wake-up time with Michael and Tai Chi
with my parents, brother, and sister made for a great start to the day, and the
fun continued through breakfast and the clean-up that Mom and I took care of
while Michael went home to get ready for church and Dad took his turn hitting
the shower too. Aunt Leanne beat Miranda
to the first sleepover teasing and jokes opportunity – for me. Michael had been welcomed home with a round
of hugs, kisses, and jokes; and then Miranda and Aunt Leanne were happy to gang
up on us while we all walked to church together.
Our friends alternated between razzing us
and being amazed that we got away with a co-ed sleepover, but with Halloween
over; it was also time to start working on our plans for the Thanksgiving weekend
services. Getting ready for Christmas
will be coming up soon too; but that work will be more with the teen praise
team for Michael and me than anything else.
Starting the work for our teen service at Thanksgiving was a fun change
from the usual in Sunday school, and maybe Pastor John thought that we needed
to burn off some of the Halloween candy-fueled energy doing that because he led
one of the longer services this fall so far; and didn’t set his congregation
free until eleven o’clock.
Michael left for the Inn right after that;
and I eventually went home with Mom, Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana. We’ve had a decent fall-weather day, and
Michael and I took Ethan and Ehlana to the park for some play time while he was
on his afternoon break; but I spent the rest of the day at home. The non-sleepover highlight of the day was
actually working with Mom to go through our wardrobes – and Ehlana’s – and weeding
out everything we wanted to donate to the new second-hand charity store. It won’t be opening up until the Monday
before Thanksgiving, but the store remodel is finished; and they’ll be ready to
start taking donations tomorrow so that they can get everything ready for their
grand opening. Mom went over to Aunt
Leanne’s house while she was kid-free this afternoon to do the same; and they’ll
drop our donations off sometime tomorrow.
After getting home from the park, I started
working on the family business in the office through until dinnertime. While I was tempted to help out at the Inn
again tonight, the need to get my own work done without staying up most of the
night won out over spending those extra hours with Michael and Rebecca. He didn’t come over after he was done at the
Inn either, but I’m certainly not going to complain about one night off from
hanging out together – especially when Rebecca and Lucas are more likely to
only get one night together a week.
Instead of spending that time with Michael,
I worked until dinner was ready; enjoyed an easy-meal with my family; watched a
movie in the lounge with Ethan and Ehlana while Mom and Dad worked in the
office; and then I got back to my studies and work while multi-tasking that
with some Jacuzzi time. Mom took custody
of the twins while I was doing that and did bath time with them too. We got together for their bedtime story; and
then we all went to bed.
Three out of five of us are either sleeping
now or will be soon. I don’t really want
to go there for what else is going on in the house tonight, but while you’re
possibly using your imagination about that; I’m going to wrap this up and get
some sleep.
Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
