While this report is for the day before my
birthday, I need to start it out with the news that the post-midnight end to my
Saturday included a lot of cuddle and movie time; and an amazing minor
goodnight-happy-birthday make-out session with Michael that was an awesome way
to start my birthday!
The rest of my day was great too; and we
had wonderful weather for our take-it-easy play day. It wasn’t an all-day play time for Mom and
Dad, but they did their chores in the morning; and then took the rest of the
day off except for taking care of the lunch and dinner meals – the second one
of those minor events for a gang of teens and kids. I got to have a two-day get out of work pass
this year for my birthday; so that worked out great for me – though I did still
do my usual chores in my room to make sure everything was clean and ready for
my overnight guests.
That bit of work didn’t get in the way of
the all-day fun – mostly because I cheated while fitting that work in between
Tai Chi and breakfast while also getting ready for the day. Mom was impressed with me doing that;
particularly while I was also having a shower and doing my hair. All of that made for a great start to the
morning; though Michael wasn’t with us for Tai Chi or breakfast. He instead went over to the Inn to help his
parents with the breakfast rush before taking the rest of the day off to hang
out with me. He did come over in time to
go out to play for most of the morning with me, Ethan, and Ehlana; and we went
for a walk and shop for a while, followed that up with a snack break by the
falls with Olde Bakery treats to munch on along with drinks from the Emporium,
and then we went to play at the park until lunchtime once it was warm enough to
do that without being uncomfortable while playing on the playground equipment.
Michael came home with us for lunch; and
our friends began arriving to hang out with us for the rest of the day and
night by one o’clock – starting with Rowen, Tim, Naomi, and Aiden. Rebecca, Lucas, Sally, Joshua, Gretchen, and
Brock rounded out my group of friends; and they were all with us by the time
that we had bikes ready for everyone to use – including Mom and Dad. We went for a ride that included a tour of
the new section of town and a loop out River Road past the lab and med
center. We played at the park after
that, and while that might not have been high on most teens’ fun list with both
parents and younger siblings along; I really loved getting to just goof off
with my family and friends for a few hours.
The snow melt was in high gear by
mid-afternoon, and while that wasn’t a major melt-off like we had in the spring
after the big snowstorm my first winter in Witch Falls; we did go back to the
falls again to check out the water action while having our afternoon
snack. The river wasn’t running a lot
faster than normal, but it was enough of a difference to normal for the falls
to look cool; and the twins, Naomi, and Aiden especially had fun with that
while we were there. We did a bit more
riding around the rest of the town; stopped in at the school for a bit more
playground time for the kids; and then went home to hang out there for the rest
of the day. Since it was so nice out;
Dad decided to fire up a grill and cook burgers, hot dogs, and steaks; and Mom
threw together a few side dishes to go with that – a change-up to the original
pizza and wings plan for the meal. Yes,
that meant that there was a stack of pizzas left in the freezer; but they still
used a few of them up for a midnight snack – and we will probably just use them
up next weekend when Mom and Dad will be going out on Saturday night for the
Valentine’s Day dinner at the Inn and party at Sheldon’s.
Having dinner outdoors was an option too,
and while I was off-duty; that didn’t keep me from happily helping out with
getting tables and chairs set up and cleaned so that we could do that instead
of eating in the dining room. We needed
to do that on the back porch instead of the yard, but that worked out better
for us because we had the lights there as it started to get dark by the time we
finished eating. The meal was a great
way to wrap up our outdoor fun, and when it was time for the clean-up; I was
sent up to the lounge with Ethan, Ehlana, and their friends while all of my friends
were temporarily drafted to help out with the work that they collectively had
wrapped up in about twenty minutes.
Mom and Dad didn’t join us to hang out in
the lounge after that because they wanted to do more work so that they could
take most of Sunday off to spend with me too.
The boys wanted to play video games for a while, and they did that for
an hour or so while my girlfriends, Ehlana, and Naomi watched on and mostly had
some chat time. We switched into movie
mode at eight o’clock so that the four kids could watch one movie with us
before bedtime. That couple of hours was
especially fun because Naomi happily joined the couples’ club when we started
pairing up to cuddle with our respective boyfriends or girlfriends; and she
wasn’t even slightly embarrassed to cuddle under a blanket with Ethan even when
she got teased about it – mostly by Tim, Joshua, and Rebecca. Aiden and Ehlana ended up under a blanket
together too, but while they were probably holding hands; they were only
sitting next to each other while Naomi was definitely in cuddle mode with my
brother.
Just for the record; Ethan did not have a
problem with that – even though he did blush a fair bit while getting teased
about it.
Ethan and Naomi also get my vote for most
adorable moment of the night too. That’s
because they had both dozed off by the end of the movie; and it was especially
fun to see Mom and Dad deal with them when they came upstairs to collect the
four younger kids and take them to get ready for bed. I’m sure that Ethan and Naomi will be getting
teased about that in the morning, because I already got teased tonight about
falling asleep running in the family; but they didn’t wake up when Michael and
Dad each took one sleeping kid downstairs – and Mom, Ehlana, and I didn’t tease
Naomi about it when she did wake up while Mom and I were getting Ehlana and
Naomi changed and into bed. Dad and
Michael took care of helping Ethan and Aiden; though they said that Ethan only
half-woke while getting changed and then went straight back to sleep once he
was in his bed.
After that, I’m really glad that I didn’t
nod off at all while we – the teens – sat up and watched two more movies along
with a video game and pizza intermission.
Those movie choices could have been mine, but I took pity on the boys
and let them pick the flicks; and they went with one martial arts movie and
followed that up with a nearly two-hour immersion into an alien invasion
adventure. I was mostly in it for the
cuddle time with Michael; but having the no-think hours of action entertainment
was okay too. Mom and Dad cooked up the
pizzas; delivered them; and stayed for part of the snack break; but then they
went downstairs again to deal with the minor clean-up before heading off to bed
while we continued on with our second movie.
Michael and I got to have the alone time
for that minor make-out session I mentioned after the last movie. Our friends left us in the lounge for that,
but they also didn’t have a problem with splitting up so that we could all have
that alone time with our respective favorite boy or girl. They all might have even had a better set-up
for that time because each couple was doing that in one of the guest bedrooms. There’s a chance that one or more of those
teen couples are cuddled together as I write this; but I’m not going to mention
any names for that. There are some
things that the Magi of the future do not need to know about – though I will
tell you that I wouldn’t have minded cuddling with Michael all night too.
No offense meant, Rowen and Mandy – you’re
very nice bed buddies too; but Rowen knows what I mean even if Mandy doesn’t.
No, Rowen, I did not mean that you can
relate to finding cuddling all night with Michael more fun – and you know
it! Thanks for the late night laughs,
though! ;^)
It is late, and we need to get some sleep,
but before I wrap this up; there is one news item I should have added earlier
in this report. I had one invitation for
this sleepover turned down. Jenny wasn’t
exactly happy about that, but Lance didn’t want to spend the weekend with us;
and she was stuck with the choice of coming by herself or going out with Lance
and some of his friends tonight instead.
She obviously picked not being a fifth wheel; but she is also getting
more than a little annoyed that Lance never wants to spend time with her
friends anymore. I wouldn’t suggest that
Maple Valley is a wild and crazy place compared to here, but from what Jenny
has told us about Lance’s group of friends; I guess it is fair to say that we’re
fairly boring and too-nice by comparison.
That’s also one of the reasons that Jenny is attracted to Lance; but I’m
very sure that she isn’t going to give up everything she has here for Lance if
he’s going to always insist that they do whatever he wants to do.
I don’t want to get into a big discussion
about Jenny and her love life, so let’s leave that there; wrap this up; and
call it a night. It’s going to be crazy
around here with ten teens and four kids getting ready for church in the
morning – and we wouldn’t want to run out of time and need to skip any gift
opening that might be involved when we have breakfast!
Wow, I’m suddenly very, very sleepy! I should definitely put my computer off to
bed now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
