Getting a decent night of rest was so much
fun last night that I’m going to do it again tonight!
The main difference between yesterday and
today is that most of my fun has revolved around all of the work I’ve been
doing pretty much since we finished our Tai Chi workout by the river this
morning. Helping out on both sides of
breakfast got the work-ball rolling; I followed that up with some chores around
the house while also working on the family business in the office in between
loads of laundry and other housework; and then I mowed the lawn for the last
couple of hours of the morning and through until we stopped for lunch at a bit
after one. It was back indoors for more
family business fun and housework for the afternoon; though Ethan, Ehlana, and
I took a break to play and go for a swim with Michael while he was on his own
afternoon break. I helped Mom with our
dinner meal for six that Violet and Dillon joined us for; missed the clean-up
due to baseball practice; and then headed over to Michael’s house for a wedding
work evening with about half of the wedding party members, Samantha, and some
volunteer helpers.
Our job for the night was to start working
on the gift cauldrons for the reception.
We spent two hours decorating and filling the cauldrons; boxing them
when completed; and hauling those boxes up to one of the second-floor guest
bedrooms. While we could have worked
later, getting the cauldrons finished was going to take a second work session
anyway; so we stopped when we were about half-way done; and we’ll finish the
rest of them sometime next week.
Michael wasn’t one of the members of the
work crew tonight; but most of the guys managed to escape getting drafted for
the crew. Josiah and Dillon were two
exceptions; and they likely wished that they’d had a way out too by the time
that we all headed home or elsewhere at shortly after ten o’clock. Next up for me was heading home, though
Michael had just gotten home with his parents and Jake as we were wrapping up
our work; so he came home with me for a while.
Mom decided to take that opportunity to do a last Magi lesson with us
ahead of the cousins’ visit that will keep us from doing them for the next two
weeks; Michael and I took care of getting Ethan and Ehlana into bed after that;
and then we came up to the lounge for some quality make-out time for two that
required a dash or three of time-phasing to fit into our schedule before
Michael needed to head home.
He’s working the breakfast shift with his
parents; so I’m not the only one interested in getting the extra sleep
tonight. Fortunately for both of us,
wrapping up our day with that teen-rated play time has us nicely tired out; so
sleep will not only be easy – we should also have some very happy dreams!
I’d like to get right to that now; and don’t
have anything else to add from my micro version of the nightly computer and
email checks; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
