We have a busy day ahead of us tomorrow,
and it’s already late; so I’m going to keep this update short and get to sleep
as soon as possible.
Tai Chi by the river was extra-special
thanks to doing that with Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne; Michael stayed to have
breakfast with us; and then he went off to his football training while I helped
Aunt Leanne and eventually met up with Rowen for our cheerleading workout. The rest of my morning was spent at the lab
with Uncle Adam, Ethan, and Ehlana; and we had fun playing there on Ehlana’s
latest pet project until going home again in time to meet up with Mom and have
lunch with her.
That reunion meal took a while because we
had two days of reports to exchange; but then I took my brother and sister with
me and we went out to play while Mom and Aunt Leanne had fun talking about the
parts of Mom’s stay in the city that we’re too young to hear about. We met up with Michael; had fun while he was
on his break; and then wrapped up his down time with a snack break in the
dining room at the Inn that Miranda joined us for. By the time we got home, Mom was busy with
her post-trip chores; I helped out with making an easy-dinner for the four of
us; and we even had the clean-up done by the time that Rowen stopped in to
collect me for our baseball practice.
We had fun playing with our friends, but
the sporting highlight of the night was probably the football scrimmage that
Tim led; and Lucas had come into town to do with him – and the rest of their
fellow football enthusiasts. Why was
that a highlight at all, you ask?
Because Mom and Aunt Leanne stopped in during their walk with the kids;
and Ethan and Zack escaped and joined in to help Tim out with player
conditioning as the teens then needed to run after them – over and over again.
Who needs suicide drills when you have to
run ten or twenty yards; pick up the giggling, squirming kid; run him back to
his mother; and then repeat a dozen times until the boys get bored with the
game?
Rowen and Tim had plans for after our
practice, but Michael was set free early when I stopped in to see him on the
way home; so we got to spend some time together that included getting Ethan and
Ehlana into bed for the night and an hour or so of quality make-out time in the
lounge while Mom worked in the office until she ran out of steam at eleven o’clock. Michael stayed for a bit of bonus cuddle and
talk time after Mom went to bed; but he headed home by shortly before midnight
because he’s helping out with the breakfast rush so that he can have the
afternoon and evening off tomorrow.
After seeing him out and watching him walk
home; I came back up here; got ready for bed; and settled in to do my nightly
computing and some family business work.
That’s taken a couple of hours to deal with, and while I didn’t use a
time phase; I have been computing with a fair bit of Magi-powered help. It was either that, or just work all night;
but that use of power does come at a cost; which is why I’m ready to crash now.
I definitely want to be ready for all of
the fun we have planned for Friday, so that’s it for now; and, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
