Let’s get this double update started from
the beginning – on Tuesday morning!
The weather was beautiful for a fall
morning – as it has been for both Tuesday and Wednesday. Tai Chi by the river was awesome; and it may
be a while before I won’t regularly need to mention how much I love having
meals in the sunroom with such an awesome view of our yard and the river. Michael was with us for Tai Chi, but didn’t
stay for breakfast because he wanted to get to school early for the morning
weight training. Though I would have
liked to have him stay for breakfast; Ethan, Ehlana, and I still had fun with
Mom – and enjoyed the kid-parent time ahead of her trip to the city. Ethan, and Ehlana got to spend a bit more
time with her in the morning before getting dropped off at the lab and left
with Uncle Adam when Mom was ready to head for Crystal Springs; but I had to
say goodbye to her when I left for school with Rowen.
My day got busy after that with a normal
school day; cheerleading practice at lunchtime; and band practice after
school. Cheerleading practice was again
a lot of fun thanks to the awesome weather; and band practice has kicked up a
few notches as we get ready for helping out with the entertainment at the
Haunted Halloween Walk and the Seniors’ Halloween party we’ll do at the church
fellowship hall. Rowen and I met up with
Michael and Tim after our practices; and I went home with Michael to have
dinner there before moving on to our teen praise team practice.
With our festival weekend service out of
the way, we started working on music for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It seemed strange to do that when we aren’t
past Halloween yet, but there’s always a lot of music and extra work to do to
get ready for all of the services; so getting a head start on that is a really
good idea. Since we do have a bit of
time, though; we didn’t work on all of the music that Stacey gave us tonight;
and had a fairly easy practice that ended early.
I went home with Michael again so that we
could do our homework; have a music practice that was mostly for band; and wrap
up our evening with just a bit of make-out time before I headed over to Uncle
Adam and Aunt Leanne’s house. Ethan and
Ehlana were still up when I arrived, but Zack and Brianna were sleeping. We had a nice visit; I helped with getting
the twins into bed; and then Aunt Leanne and I had a fun little girl chat in my
room for the night that lasted until Brianna woke up and wanted her next
feeding – and the one that is now normally the last one she has before
morning. I stayed with Aunt Leanne for
that; took care of the diaper change; and then I cuddled with Brianna and sang
to her until she fell asleep while Aunt Leanne went to bed.
That’s why I got such a late start to my
bedtime studying and computing; and you already know from the last update that
I fell asleep before getting everything done.
I was still up in time for Tai Chi by the river, and Ethan, Ehlana, and
I not only had Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne with us for that workout; we had
Naomi too. Liz had let her run across
the back yards to join us; and I’m sure that Naomi had planned to get up early
to do that with us on one of the rare chances she has when not at our house for
a sleepover anyway.
Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne went all-out for
us this morning; and we practically had a breakfast feast. That was too much for me to have ahead of my
morning classes, but that didn’t keep me from enjoying the meal; and dealing
with the consequences of eating too much for the first couple of hours of
school.
I managed to get through the day; enjoyed
every moment that I could when I was outdoors.
With afternoon temperatures again in the mid-eighties; even our teachers
wanted to be outside as much as possible – even if all we did was find
someplace to sit while having our lessons taught to us. That didn’t happen in every class, but the
school grounds were littered with students all day; since nearly every grade
had at least some classes outdoors.
Cheerleading practice was good too, though
we had a bit of extra work to do today because the forecast for Friday isn’t
looking great; and we worked on two half-time routines so that we’d be ready
for rain or shine. We’ve been fairly
lucky so far this season, so while it won’t be fun if it rains all night on
Friday; I won’t complain too much over one bad-weather game.
It’s a work night, so I walked Michael to
the Inn after our practices; and then came home. Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana were all there, and
since it was nearly dinnertime by then; we traded stories; I helped Mom with
the last bits of work to get our meal ready; and then we had dinner out in the
sunroom. I took care of the clean-up;
and then it was time for me to get to work in the office. Mom was already working there by then, and
Ethan and Ehlana were studying. I
started with my family business; used a time phase so that we could all work
faster; and we all had our work, studying, and Magi lessons finished by shortly
before eleven o’clock – even though I’d had work to catch up on before even
getting to my planned work tonight.
Mom and I got the twins tucked in for the
night; I came up to my room; and got ready for bed. I did another email check once I was tucked
in with Mandy; and then got started on this report. It’s been a long couple of days, and while it
isn’t three or four in the morning now; it feels like it after hours of
time-phased work and studying.
There’s still quite a bit that I’ve skipped
over for news around here, but I’m ready for some down time; so here’s just a
micro-news flash for a few of those highlights.
Mom and Dad had dinner with the Malloys
last night; she went shopping on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning; and
apparently my parents didn’t do anything else for the rest of the time she was
in Crystal Springs. I guess you’ll have
to read her journals to get the details that were apparently too hot for the
kids to hear about. When Mom came home,
she brought the usual fast food fix for Aunt Leanne; and then she spent the
afternoon at the lab with the twins.
Ethan and Ehlana had spent Wednesday morning with Aunt Leanne, Zack, and
Brianna; and they’d mostly played until Mom got home.
Okay, that’s all for tonight, and I’m going
to crash now and sleep until morning; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
