Congratulations to the Stone and Bishop
families – it’s a girl!
That news flash was a minor hit on the town
gossip network today, and while everyone is happy for Jacob, Miranda, and
everyone in the Stone family; this wasn’t a huge story because most people don’t
even know Michael’s cousins – even if they do know his aunt and grandparents
very well.
Annette Bishop is Drew and Heidi Bishop’s
first baby; is the first girl great-grandbaby for Jacob’s parents; and leaves
Drew’s younger brother, Eric with bragging rights for being first to have a
baby with his wife, Sally; and still the only ‘male heir’ to the Bishop clan so
far. We have heard that Gerry, the
one-and-a-half-year-old heir-apparent is quite amazed by his new baby cousin;
and thinks that his parents should either take her home with them – or get one
of their own.
Michael and I are happy for his cousins,
aunt, uncle, and grandparents too; but we won’t be involved in Annette’s life
anytime soon; and probably won’t even get to meet her until Christmas – unless the
Bishop clan decides to make the trip here for Thanksgiving instead and then not
come here for Christmas at all. Jacob
and Miranda are probably going to be heading there on their days off next week;
so we’ll probably know one way or the other by the time they come back.
Oh, and if you’re wondering; yes, I have
offered to keep Michael – and Rebecca – at my house while they’re away. That’s what friends are for – to make these
little sacrifices! ;^)
Compared to that news, my day was fairly
uneventful. It was cooler again today,
and though we still went outside for Tai Chi; we needed to bundle up a bit
extra to do that. With our first playoff
game of the season now just a day away; I’m sure you can guess that football
was the number one topic at school all day.
There actually wasn’t much football action going on, though; and that’s
all because Coach Robinson has the guys mostly resting up for the game today
except for a light work-out. Lunchtime
scrimmages were out too because he doesn’t want any freak play-time injuries
taking out any of his players ahead of the big game.
Rowen and I had cheerleading practice
outdoors at noon, so that wasn’t a big deal for us – especially when the cooler
weather was a bigger deal for us. I’m
not looking forward to another chilly football game; but that’s probably what
we’ll be getting tomorrow night.
With election fever over with now, it was a
quiet day in the classroom, and after we were set free for the day; I went on
to the Inn with Rebecca while Michael was busy with his light workout and
practice with the team so that we could do our homework together and then help
out with the dinner rush and game night action.
The family baby news made all of that more fun for Jacob and Miranda,
and while we had a comparatively light crowd both for dinner and the gaming; we
had a lot of fun too.
Since I had been there for the early work,
I didn’t stay for the post-gaming clean-up; and instead went home with my
family shortly after the championships were awarded. Michael was sent home with us with orders to
get to bed and sleeping ahead of his big game, and while I was tempted to go
and tuck him in for the night after we got teased about that on the way out of
the Inn; I resisted the urge and we settled for good night kisses and hugs on
his front porch instead.
Note to Miranda for future reading and
reference: If you want your son to go
off to sleep right away; don’t invite his girlfriend to tuck him in before
doing that. He wouldn’t have gone to
sleep anytime soon if I had; and he was probably awake for a while thinking
about what might have been because we didn’t.
Moving along, I still had my Magi lesson to
do with Mom after we got home; Ethan and Ehlana did some college studying while
I was doing that; and then I took care of getting them tucked in for the night
while Mom and Dad both did some work in the office. It’s been all study and family business work
time for me since then; which is why it’s after three now and I should have
been sleeping already to rest up for that game too.
The good news is that I can use a little
self-healing to make up for the lost down time, but I really should wrap this
up anyway and get what rest I can; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
