Congratulations to the Byrd family – it’s a
boy!
Alex Byrd’s birth today was the top news
story around town today; and of some interest to our family too because Alex
will be one of Brianna’s classmates when they eventually start school in about
five years. You might be wondering if
Ethan, Ehlana, and I see more for their future, but while the answer to that is
definitely ‘yes’; we won’t be passing any of that information on to anyone else
anytime soon. Since they’re both very
young, and it’s possible that my teen journals will be available for other Magi
to read before they’re adults, that’s all I have for the subject; so let’s move
along to the rest of the update.
Tai Chi by the river and breakfast helped
to get our day off to a good start; Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I met up as soon
as we were ready to go and biked out to the Parker farm for the football
workout; and then Rowen and I mostly hung out with Sally and some of the other
girls that came to the workout too while the boys played – I mean trained – for
an hour and a half. Tim had a good
turnout of the younger farm teens again; yet didn’t get any of the senior
players again – including Ray Parker. He
was there, but chose to work instead while Joshua was hosting the workout. That surprised me a bit, since he’s very
likely to be our quarterback this season, but most of the farm guys need to
make up that lost work time; so maybe he just couldn’t do that today. I’ll add that Tim’s getting a bit annoyed
about the lack of interest for extra training with the senior players, leave it
there; and reserve judgment on how that works out for them – and for our team.
Michael needed to get back to the Inn via a
stop at home for a shower and change once we were back in town again. Rowen and Tim were doing their own things
after that too; so I went onto kid control duty while also helping out around
home and setting up tents for our camping adventure plans. Ethan and Ehlana were happy to help me out
with that, and they did help as much as they could while out in public; pulling
tents out to the river in a wagon and doing little jobs like setting out tent
poles and pegs where I needed them. We
had a bit of play time here and there too, including while Michael was on his
break; and Rowen and Tim came over in time to join us for an easy-dinner before
Rowen and I needed to get to our ball practice and Tim met up with a bunch of
guys for a football scrimmage.
It was too busy at the Inn for Michael to
get away for that football action too; but he met up with us back at my house
in time for the start of the campfire.
Our ball practice was good, but some of our team mates are not very
motivated right now. I’m not really
worried about that, but Rowen and I don’t plan on slacking off for the rest of
the season just because we’ve already earned our spot in the championship
game. Tim’s football scrimmage was more
interesting because he was able to get a much better picture of how well his
younger potential team mates are doing.
He was happy to see that most of the guys training with him most days
are better than the guys that aren’t doing any extra work right now; but we’ll
again need to wait and see how that works out once the official training camp
opens.
While Rowen and I didn’t pay any attention
to that scrimmage while busy with our own practice; we did hear about it at the
campfire. With that training camp now
just about two and a half weeks away from starting; I don’t need to use my
Sight to predict that football will be a top chat choice for the guys for the
rest of the summer. Tim would likely
suggest that Rowen and I just didn’t give him and Michael something better to
do, and while I would have been good with a tent mate swap tonight to help him
out with that; they have Ethan and Aiden in their tent tonight; and Rowen and I
have Ehlana and Naomi for our cuddle buddies.
That isn’t a problem for the other teen
couples; and that’s the real reason that Tim made more jokes about that sort of
thing than usual. He at least saved them
up for after Michael and I had the four younger kids tucked into their sleeping
bags for the night; though there’s a very good chance that Naomi would have
agreed with him – and offered to do a tent mate swap anyway – even if that
meant two pairs of pre-schoolers in one tent and two teen couples in the other.
No, that wouldn’t have worked for me; since
I don’t think that making out with my boyfriend is a spectator sport – even if
the spectators were our best friends.
That just is not going to happen; though I can hear Tim’s future jokes
about that statement when he reads this journal someday in the future. Go ahead and laugh, Tim, but your girlfriend
feels the same way about that as I do; so live with the faux disappointment.
The campfire was fun. Michael and I provided most of the music;
Lucas and Rebecca were top storytellers for the kids until they went to bed;
and we each took turns at scary stories after that until we put the fire out at
twelve-thirty. There were two swims
tonight too – the first when we got back from the school; and the second after
the campfire ended. Swim number two was
at least a partial diversion for some of us while Rebecca and Lucas, and Jenny
and Joel, moved on to co-ed camping.
Emma and Kylie had been invited too, and they went with us for that
swim; but then they turned in after that while Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I
stayed up later and talked until nearly two while cuddling on two of the
benches.
It was definitely time to get ready for bed
after that, though; and I’m only doing this update and an email check before
packing up my computer and getting some sleep.
We’ve had a really great day, and it’s going to be busy tomorrow too;
since I’m going to try and get a head start on the yard work in addition to the
morning football practice; evening baseball game; and the babysitting that I’m
booked for while Mom, Dad, and their usual group of friends go out to the pub
after their game. I’ll have help for
that; but we won’t be doing a bonus sleepover or camping night.
That is pretty much all of the news for
today, though, and I’m ready for the down time; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
