This report is coming to you live from
Rowen’s bedroom. I’m doing my sleepover
here because we’re overdue; though the parents are having fun with the bonus
entertainment of teasing Michael and me about leaving me with Rowen to avoid
the risk of too many sofa sleepovers in a single week.
You have no idea how tempted Rowen and I
were to keep Michael and Tim here tonight too; but we resisted the urge and
sent them home by midnight instead.
By now you’ve deduced that Mom is in the
city for the night, and while I didn’t write about it yesterday; I’ll guess
that you didn’t expect her to turn down the trip suggestion – and she didn’t. She’s hopefully had fun with her shopping and
the Christmas dinner with the Malloys; and we won’t discuss what my parents are
likely doing with the rest of their night when Dad isn’t trying to get his
homework done for the night too.
While our parents are away, Ethan and
Ehlana are spending another night with Aiden and Naomi, and while a sleepover
with Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam is overdue; they have enough on the go right
now with Zack and Brianna; so it’s easier on them not to give Zack any reasons
to be overly fired up on a work night – which he always is whenever Ethan is
around.
Maybe next time I’ll suggest that Aunt
Leanne and Brianna take Ehlana and Naomi for the sleepover and ship Zack off to
Eli’s house; but then that isn’t really fair for Liz on a work night
either. Either boy is a handful. Putting Zack and Eli together is usually more
than a bit scary! ;^)
Moving along; let’s get to the news of the
day.
Tai Chi was indoors, and though the rain
stopped overnight, it was chilly out; and Michael and I were okay with staying
indoors and continuing his Pushing Hands lessons. Mom worked with Ethan and Ehlana while we did
that; and then Mom and I cooked breakfast for six while Michael headed home to
spend the rest of the pre-school morning with his parents. Violet and Dillon were awake in time to have
breakfast with us today; and they took care of the clean-up after we finished
eating so that I could use all of that time to get ready for school. They also took care of Ethan and Ehlana after
Mom left; and their play time included spending most of the day at the lab
before Violet and Dillon dropped them off with their friends and moved on to
their own plans for the night.
By the way, yes, the twins and I could have
spent the night at home with them; but we decided that they needed a kid-free
night too ahead of the holidays – and that includes the lack of alone time they’ll
have while in Woodvale too.
My school day was all play; including more
music practices with the primary kids that Michael and I are playing guitar and
keyboards for during the concert on Thursday afternoon. We’ll only have one more round of practices
tomorrow; and then we’ll likely end up spending Thursday morning setting up in
the gym for the annual event. Band
practice was fairly short because we only needed to work on the music we’re
doing at the concert; and then Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I all went over to
Rowen’s house to hang out until dinnertime.
We also cooked so that Rowen’s parents didn’t need to do that; and then
took the food on the road so that we could have dinner with them at the store –
which is open late every weeknight between now and Christmas Eve Day so that we
could have that meal with them.
Michael and I needed to head over to the
church after that for the teen praise team practice; and that was another long
blast of musical fun as we first went through the entire musical with all
actors; and then the praise team worked on the rest of our holiday music once
the actors were set free. Rowen and Tim
came to the church for a while because they do have minor, behind-the-scenes
mobs for the musical; but neither of them wanted the extra work that would have
gone along with being on-stage; so they didn’t try to do that too. They were back at Rowen’s house long before
Michael and I were; but the four of us did still hang out together in the
living room for that last couple of hours we had until the boys needed to be
home at midnight.
No, they don’t change into anything scary
or weird if they’re not home by then; and we were just glad to have the curfew extension
that the parents allowed because we really are just having a play week at
school.
Rowen and I got ready for bed after seeing
them out; got our computers; and hopped into bed before Rowen started surfing
YouTube for Christmassy videos for comedy or music; and I got to work on my
usual bedtime computing. I took it easy
with that tonight and just worked on the family business jobs that couldn’t be
left until tomorrow night. I’m skipping
the language and archive studying; so I’ll be ready to call it a night once I’m
finished with this update. I’ve really
loved getting to have the chat time with Rowen tonight, and while we spend a
lot of time together every day; we definitely need to think about finding more
time for just the two of us to do things like this. No, I have no idea how to fit that into our
already too-busy schedules, and we won’t be trading in any boyfriend alone time
to make room for it; but maybe we can do better over the holidays – at least on
the non-special holiday days.
It could happen!
It isn’t late compared to my weeknight
normal, but I’m okay with getting a bit of bonus sleep tonight; so let’s wrap
this up with my Christmas song pick of the night.
There are a few songs from Christmas movies
that aren’t actually Christmas-themed songs; and this is one of my favorite
examples of that – the song from an animated version of A Christmas Carol. Kate Winslet is certainly better known for
her role in ‘Titanic’ than for her voicing of Scrooge’s love interest in this
cartoon; but I’m also sure that a lot of people have listened to and loved this
song without even knowing that it is from the Christmas movie. Hopefully, you’ll love it too!
Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
