Welcome home, Grandma and Grandpa!
They had an amazing travel adventure,
though we only got to hear a couple of stories tonight; so I’m glad we’ll have
more time for that tomorrow night. It
was going on seven o’clock by the time they got to town, and by the time we’d
helped with unloading the minivan and helping them to get settled in; we only
spent another hour or so visiting before it was time for us – all of the kids
and grandkids – to head back to our homes so that Grandma and Grandpa could get
some sleep after a long travel day.
That time with them was the highlight of my
day, and though I missed out on helping out at the Inn and game night this
week; that apparently worked out for Michael, because he teamed up with Rebecca
for the gaming and they won the junior championship. Maybe he’ll want me to skip game night more
often! ;^)
We had another quiet day at school, and it
was not very much fun for any of us to have temperatures in the mid-fifties
yesterday and then get to feel them plunge to a wind-chill that wasn’t just
sub-freezing – it was sub-zero. I’m not
suggesting that we were in need of yet another winter weather advisory or
anything – but I am saying that sixty degree swings in about twelve or fifteen
hours does suck. I’d feel the same way
about that if it went from one hundred to forty that quickly.
Moving along, while I didn’t help out at
the Inn tonight, Michael and I did still do our homework together – and with
Rowen and Tim. The computer store was
study central today; and that was a nice little change of venue. We haven’t studied there in quite a while;
and should get back to doing that more often.
I walked Michael to the Inn; headed home; and got there in time to help
Mom with making dinner while getting the daily report from her – and Ethan and
Ehlana.
I haven’t mentioned their work at the lab
much in my journal lately; but they are keeping busy there and having a lot of
fun together. Mom is still using her
cover story for working on the computer systems there; though she has most of
that finished now. Ehlana spends a lot
of her time there with Uncle Adam; while Mom and Ethan play in the
archives. They aren’t continually
getting new shipments in from the other archives around the world, since they
come in bursts as Grandma Eleanor, Grandpa Grant, and the others who are
helping them get the books ready to ship and on the way as they clear out and
close down the other archive locations around the world.
I’m not in the loop for most of that work
except for reading the updates; but that work is continuing on-time; and
getting all of the archives moved here should be completed by spring of
twenty-eighteen. Our volunteers do not
have a problem with three more years of exotic travel for the cause; though
Grandma and Grandpa Wingborough are the only volunteers planning to do three or
four trips each year.
Mom and I had dinner ready to go by the
time that Dad got home from the office; we had lots of time to eat and clean up
before going over to Grandma and Grandpa’s house; and we had the heat turned up
and snacks and hot drinks ready to go by the time they pulled into the
driveway. Uncle Adam, Aunt Leanne, and
Zack were there by then too; and their contribution to the work effort had been
to pick up Olde Bakery treats for that snack time. I’ve already mentioned the basics of our
reunion, and the stories will eventually be in Grandma and Grandpa’s archive
journals; so I won’t try to out-tell the master for those travel tales.
Once we were home again, Mom did my Magi
lesson with me while letting Ethan and Ehlana do some college course studying;
we took a break after that to get them off to bed; and then I was allowed to
work and study in the office for an hour while Mom and Dad both worked on their
computers too. I was sent to bed at
eleven-thirty while Mom and Dad kept working, and while that seems just a
little unfair; I have orders to be at least attempting to sleep by midnight; so
I need to wrap this up and get to it.
Some teens might be able to get away with faking it for things like
that, but the links that Ethan, Ehlana, and I share with Mom makes that
impossible.
No, that isn’t always fun from a teen
perspective; but the bonuses are way better than the downside. I’m sure that Mom feels the same way about
that from an adult perspective.
We don’t really need to get into that
tonight, and I do need to get to the sleeping part of the going to sleep by
midnight thing; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
