This has been a really great day, but also
too long and exhausting; so I’m going to keep this short and then get a couple
of hours of nap time before I’ll need to get up and going again at dawn.
Tai Chi and breakfast was followed by
another football workout at the park that Rowen, Dawn, Jillian, and I had fun
with – and took Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden too as well before getting to
have the rest of the day off from kid control duties. The highlight of the play part of our day was
another bike ride out to Quarry Lake, and while we just had the six of us doing
the biking; there were other teens and friends that got rides out there for the
day too – including some of Dawn and Jillian’s local friends.
We were at Quarry Lake by eleven; had a
picnic lunch with us; and had a total blast there until we needed to start
biking home again by four-thirty. As
usual now, the rock climbing, zip line, and all water-related action were the fun
highlights; though I really enjoy the longer bike rides each way too. Michael and I were at my house for dinner; we
went over to his house for the evening; and spent that time doing some
wedding-related work – pretty much all of the bits and pieces that needed to be
finished before we move into the mostly-celebratory parts of the week.
The next five days are certainly not going
to be all play and no work; but we’ll have a lot of fun activities every
evening starting tomorrow night. I’ll
skip the look ahead for all of that, since you can just flip the digital pages
in my future to find out all about my life for the rest of the week anyway and
I’m too tired to add that in for this update.
The work session at Michael’s house ended at ten; he and I had another
bedtime swim; and then I came home so that I could get started on my nightly
computing and extra family business work – which I got started on by shortly
before midnight by the time I was changed and in bed with Mandy. Dawn and Jillian had still been up when I got
home, but we only had a short girl chat that Violet joined us for on her way to
bed before they decided to turn in for the night instead of watching another
movie in the lounge.
My enthusiasm for working on the family
business tonight wasn’t very high, but I need to get more done now so that I
can take the extra time off over the weekend – and preferably by Thursday if I
can swing that. Four hours and change of
computing has definitely been too much for me, and some self-healing is going
to be required ahead of Tai Chi, but even if the work wasn’t fun; the rest of
the fun and excitement of the day was worth the lack-of-sleep trade-off.
That does cover the highlights of the day
even though I am skipping a lot of the little details that went into making
this such a really great day, and I really need to get started on that nap time
now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
