Yes, Michael and I had a successful sofa
sleepover – and the pre-sleepover make-out session was fairly brilliant too!
So were the wake-up hugs and kisses; Tai
Chi by the river; and breakfast with my family, Violet, and Dillon. Michael needed to get home and eventually on
to the Inn after that; but I helped Violet and Dillon with getting the car
packed – or what was left to be done with that; since they’d loaded a lot of
their things into it yesterday. Getting
everything in took a bit of creativity, and there isn’t a spare inch of space
left anywhere except the front seats; but we had fun getting that done – and spending
that last bit of time together before we did the goodbye hugs and kisses and
then they went over to Dillon’s house.
I needed to get to work on my chores after
that; and kept busy with them until it was time for me to clean up; get
something to eat; and head over to the park for my baseball game. Ethan and Ehlana came with me, and Mom joined
us at the park before the game started; but Dad stayed and worked in the
office. We – the Piranha – were up
against the Sharks today; and this was our closest, toughest game of the season
so far. We won nine-to-seven, but the
lead changed hands a few times; and it could have gone either way. The Sharks’ players really wanted the win to
keep their hopes alive for the other spot in the championship game; and now
they’re going to need our help to get there; since they’ll probably be out if
we lose our last game against the Stingrays.
Michael and Tim both caught the end of our
game while Michael was on his break; they went with us for the ice cream
celebration at the Emporium; and then we came back to my house for a long swim
and some do-nothing time with Ethan and Ehlana until Michael needed to go back
to the Inn. Rowen and Tim moved on then
to do their own thing for dinner; but they came back again to spend the evening
with us. The main reason they didn’t
stay for dinner was because I knew that Mom didn’t need the extra dinner
guests; and we went with an easy, leftovers-based meal that was also easy to
clean up after and didn’t keep Dad from his work for very long.
Ethan, Ehlana, and I had our movie night in
the lounge set up and ready to go when Rowen and Tim returned; and then we
watched ‘Home’ together while waiting for Michael to join us after he was set
free for the night. He didn’t end up
staying until close, but only got back in time to catch the end of the
movie. We all went for an after-dark
swim then; Michael and I helped Ethan and Ehlana get ready for bed; and then they
joined us in the lounge again for movie number two. That meant going with another family-rated
show; but the boys picked out an action flick that was mildly entertaining for
all of us while not being too much for the twins. They were both with Michael and me on one
side of the sectional sofa while Rowen and Tim cuddled on the other side. Tim teased us about the cuddle time with
pre-schoolers that was far too domesticated for his tastes; but his jokes just
added to the fun that we all had until Ethan and Ehlana were taken to bed by
Mom and Dad when they were ready to turn in for the night. They stayed with us for the last five minutes
of that movie; and then it was just four teens left cuddling for another hour
or so until Michael, Tim, and Rowen all needed to head home for the night.
That hadn’t left us with enough time for a
third movie, so Rowen had fun surfing YouTube videos for us to watch; we
talked; and enjoyed the cuddle time with our respective boyfriend or
girlfriend. I saw them out; did my
goodnight hugs and kisses with Michael on the front porch while Rowen and Tim
were doing the same on her front porch; and then I cleaned up the lounge and my
room before getting ready for bed and cuddling with Mandy.
I’ve been doing some family business work
since then along with my usual bedtime computing and email checks; but I was
still wide-awake anyway and needed to do something to wind down. The only important news to write about from
all of that, though, is to note that Violet, Dillon, Josiah, Christina, and the
rest of the collegians that headed out today arrived at their respective
colleges safely and are already settling in.
I haven’t mentioned him yet, but Chris Rice is one of those collegians,
and while he didn’t sent me an email; Violet and Dawn both let me know that he
was at his college and Uncle Rick, Aunt Melissa, and Martin had dropped him off
at his residential hall and done some of the family orientation activities with
him before going to spend the night at a local hotel. They’ll be seeing him again for a while on Sunday;
and then they’ll head back to Woodvale again.
Dawn didn’t go along; and she’s spending
the weekend with Jillian and her family.
She’s really looking forward to only having one brother left at home for
most of the next ten months, and since Martin is definitely the easier-going
brother; I’ll guess that they’ll get along great. I guess that there’s one more bit of
information I should add while I’m thinking about my cousins, and that’s the
news from Dawn that Martin will have the car that he and Chris have been
sharing with him instead of with Chris at college – at least for this first
semester. That seems to have more to do
with parking availability at that college for freshmen; but Dawn doesn’t think
she’s in on all of the details behind that decision. She’s just glad that Martin will be able to
drive them around without borrowing one of their parent’s vehicles. That’ll be a particularly big deal now that
she’s going to be a high school freshman!
It is getting late now, and I don’t have
anything else particularly interesting to add to this update; so let’s call it
a night. Dad’s going to have another
long work day tomorrow, so I’m planning on helping out at the Inn all day
again; and I expect that Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana may spend the afternoon at the
lab unless they end up playing with their friends or our family instead. I could do that too; but know that Miranda
and Jacob need the extra help even more now that some of their college student
workers are done for the summer and gone off to school.
With that in mind, I probably should have
been sleeping an hour or more ago; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
