Kyle’s team won their football game this
week too!
There, I’ve added a college football
update, Tim; so can we move on now? I
know that it’s tough for guys not to talk football when they get together –
especially a day after a big playoff win, and on college football day; but you
and Michael and Lucas were spending the evening with your girlfriends tonight too. Football was not a priority for us.
Yes, I’m sure that you didn’t find our girl
chat topics interesting either; but we needed something to do while three out
of four of our guys were busy talking sports and gaming – or talking sports
while we watched that action flick.
Before I get to the teen night and
sleepover report, though; let’s cover the rest of the news from earlier today.
Tai Chi was outdoors, but very chilly this
morning; breakfast was indoors and hot; and the yard work had Dad and me
outdoors again for a lot of the day as the fall clean-up seems to be
never-ending this year. I did have a
one-hour reprieve for that right after breakfast so that I could run over to
Michael’s house and give him and Rebecca a hand with getting the guest bedrooms
ready for our sleepover there – and do a bit of main-floor cleaning too so that
everything was ready for our evening of teen gaming and movies.
Dad and I juggled taking care of the twins
for a while this morning too while Mom went to give Aunt Leanne a hand with
Zack and some errands while she was having some morning sickness issues; and we
did some indoor chores while we were also inside for lunch anyway. That was fun because Ethan, Ehlana, and I
multi-tasked that with some Magi-powered play time to speed up some of those
chores. Mom was home again for our soup
and sandwiches lunch break; and then Dad and I were back outside again for
another couple of hours of mostly-messy work.
Michael was with me for part of that time
during his afternoon break, and I was set free a half hour before he needed to
get back to the Inn. That didn’t give us
much time to hang out together, but I packed my overnight bag and sent it with
him when he left so that he could drop it off at home on his way back to the
Inn. Our teen night wasn’t starting
until after he and Rebecca were finished with the dinner rush there, so I
decided to grab a shower, get ready for my night, and head over to the Inn to
help out too.
Since Michael and Rebecca were busy, Lucas
and I couldn’t make dinner plans with them, but Jenny, Lance, Rowen, and Tim
were all having a date-dinner at the Inn while the rest of us were
working. For Lucas, that was staying to
help on the farm ahead of getting to have Sunday morning off from his usual
chores, and though it would have been fun to go out to dinner with Rowen and
Tim; Michael and I still had fun in the kitchen while we first helped out with
the prep line work and then moved on to the less-entertaining dishwashing that
sometimes seemed never-ending even on a comparatively quiet Saturday night
dinner rush.
While I was doing that, Mom and Dad were
getting started on a kid-free night.
They had to wait for the bakery and salon to close for the day before
giving up custody of Ethan and Ehlana to the Drapers and Seagers respectively;
but their friends had conspired to get them the night off after finding out
that I’d be spending the night with Michael and his family. I’m sure they’re having fun, and they were
going to Sheldon’s for a little play time with kids their own age; but I don’t
think we need to add any details about what they’re probably doing with the
rest of their kid-free night.
On the teen front, Michael, Rebecca, and I
were set free from the kitchen at nearly the same time that Jenny, Lance,
Rowen, and Tim were finished the dinner part of their date night; and we were
all able to go over to Michael and Rebecca’s house. Jenny got a ride there with Lance because it
apparently hadn’t occurred to either of them to park it there instead after he’d
picked Jenny up; but they somehow still managed to get there after the rest of
us did – and we walked home.
While I’m thinking about that scene, I’ve
got to mention that it seemed very strange to me to see Jenny grab her
overnight bag out of Lance’s car when we were all ready to go inside; and that
was probably even stranger for Jenny’s Mom – kind of a reverse of what it was
like for me when Mom was dating Dad and doing sleepovers at his house.
Funny that I should be thinking that when
the only difference between tonight and those sleepovers back then for Mom and
Dad is that they needed to get someone to watch three kids – instead of just
one of them! ;^)
Moving along, Claire dropped Lucas off
before Rebecca and Michael had even finished ‘showing us to our rooms’ so that
four out of five of us could put our bags in our rooms. I only needed to move my bag from Michael’s
room to the one Rowen and I are sharing, and though Michael had done that as a
joke; I’m not to only one wishing that I was in his room with him now and Tim
was with Rowen. That didn’t – and isn’t –
going to happen; though Jenny once again didn’t have a problem with sneaking
into Lance’s room after we all went to bed.
That might have been why he was put into the guest room farthest from
Miranda and Jacob’s room; but I didn’t ask Rebecca about that and she didn’t
offer any comments about that at the time when we were putting our bags in
those rooms.
I’ve already covered part of the evening
news, and though the guys really did talk too much about football, and they
regularly checked the scores from the college games still in progress; we also
had fun hanging out together. Jenny,
Rebecca, Rowen, and I talked about everything from cheerleading to upcoming
holidays and shopping trips while the boys started out with a round of video
gaming. The action flick was fairly bad;
but there was a lot of fighting, car chases, and stuff getting blown up; so it
wasn’t a total waste of no-think time – and the cuddling with our boyfriends
was good. We were on our own without
parental supervision until Miranda and Jacob got home after closing the Inn,
but then they quickly got ready to go out and went to Sheldon’s for an hour or
so to hang out there with Mom, Dad, and some of their other friends.
They didn’t seem to mind trading that for
watching that movie with us, but then they were good with hanging out with us after
they got home while we all had a late-night pizza snack. Cooking up a few frozen pizzas isn’t news
when you’ve got a group of teens together in a small town, but there was one
interesting conversation that I’m going to mention here – just for the
record. Jenny started the little chat
about the total lack of fast food options for kids and teens both in our town
and for Lance and his friends in Maple Valley.
Jenny probably isn’t far behind Aunt Leanne when it comes to her
enthusiasm for fast food, and while Rebecca loves her Dad’s amazing cooking as
much as Michael and I do; she likes all things fast food too. I was the one to suggest that they should
just solve that problem by opening their own fast food place when they grow up;
but Jenny thought that was a great idea and ran with it from there for a while
with some help from Rebecca and Miranda.
The only thing I’ll add here is that the
seed has been planted; and yes, the twins and I might know something that we’re
not telling anyone about yet. By the
time you read this in the future, you’ll know what that is anyway; but I like
keeping my journals in ‘real-time’; so I’ll mostly report events as they
happen.
That snack break was fun, but then Miranda
and Jacob went up to bed after we ate; Michael and I took care of the clean-up;
and then we had a little more teen chat and video gaming time before we needed
to come up to our rooms too. Lance
probably thought that the only request Miranda had made of us – to wrap things
up by one o’clock – was too early, but since he does have Jenny in his room
with him now; I doubt that he still has a problem with the plan. We managed to each find a way for a little
couples’ alone time for goodnight hugs and kisses before most of us ended up in
the rooms we’re supposed to be in for the night; but that was mostly worked in
around more clean-up work in the living room and kitchen and juggling bathroom
time as we all got ready for bed.
Once Rowen and I were in bed, she started
surfing the web on her computer; and I’ve been doing my usual bedtime
computing. There wasn’t any major family
business work to deal with, but I did do a more thorough than usual news, sports,
and entertainment check so I’ll be up-to-speed at school on Monday with all of
the required teen gossip and football data.
That reminds me that there is one other piece of football news to report
– the guys found out today that they’ll be playing their second-round match on
Friday against Mount Pleasant. That’s a
bonus for us because they were a surprise first-round winner; so we get another
home game. I looked up the team stats
for them this season too, so I’ll be able to talk about that with Tim, Michael,
and the other guys next week; but I don’t have any predictions or anything just
based on those numbers – especially after Mount Pleasant has already managed an
improbable first-round win.
It’s going to be a busy morning with eight
teens sharing bathroom time, getting ready for church, and helping out and
having breakfast; so Rowen and I should probably call it a night now. I’m wishing more than a little that Michael
and I had been able to manage to have some quality alone time tonight too, but
we did have a lot of fun with our friends instead. Maybe we’ll look at making some time for just
us next weekend. For right now, though,
it really is time to call it a night; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
