Happy 15th Birthday, Lisa!
As with a lot of my friends this past year,
Lisa’s birthday party dinner was at the Inn today; though the total extent of
my involvement with her big day was when Michael and I gave her our gift while
we were at church this morning and a visit to her table while we were on our
break to again wish her a Happy Birthday.
The rest of my day can be summed up by one
word – work.
Since I did leave you with that little cliff-hanger
about Tim, I’ll mention that he was wearing clothes when Rowen and I joined our
boys in the lounge; but he also half-won the sofa sleepover non-battle. What I mean there is that he and Rowen got to
have the sofa and lounge for their goodnight make-out session; and they dragged
that out for quite a while before Rowen sent him off to bed so that she could
actually get some sleep before we needed to be awake and working kid control
for a few hours.
I didn’t get to have an uninterrupted night
of sleep because Brianna wanted to play for a while at around
three-thirty. After changing her diaper
and feeding her a bottle, she still wanted to snuggle; so Mandy and I ended up
keeping her with us until morning – and we all loved that a lot.
My lack of sleep did make my morning a bit
tougher, but Mom, Rowen, and I also had fun playing dress-up with the other
girls; and the entire breakfast adventure was non-stop entertainment and action
even though it was also exhausting to keep up with all of the kids. We did eventually get everyone ready and off
to church; and then going to Sunday school with my friends almost felt like nap
time by comparison – even with the bits of birthday fun for Lisa.
Church and Sunday school was followed by
lunch at home for me with my family while Michael went to work at the Inn. Work was still the word of the day for me
then because I helped out with cooking lunch and then cleaning up because Dad
had a lot of work to get done today. Mom
and I then took the twins over to the lab so that we’d be out of Dad’s way; I
helped out in the lab until I needed to go home again and get ready to work the
buffet shift; and then I spent the next five hours or so helping out with the
cooking and cleaning for the two dinner sittings that kept all of us busy
through until the Inn closed for the night.
Dad was still working in the office when I
got home again, but Mom was having some quality Jacuzzi time; and the twins had
been sent to bed early after a very late night on Saturday. Since I had a lot of work and studying to do
then, I went and got my computer; used a time phase; and Dad and I both
finished all of our must-do work or studying by eleven-thirty.
We headed for bed then; I’m writing this
while having a time-phased soak in my tub; and I still plan on being asleep as
soon as possible so that I can catch up on my rest too. This hasn’t exactly been the most-fun day
ever by a long shot, but the fun moments have still helped to make it a good
day; and I always feel grateful to be able to say that about even the
not-so-fun days around here.
I do need to wrap this up and finish
getting ready for bed if I want to get to the extended nap time, though, and I
don’t have anything else particularly interesting to write about; so, until
next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
P.S. Judging by the smiles of the parents
at Liz’s party and particularly the parents that got to have kid-free nights on
Saturday; you might want to check out those Magi journals in the archives for
the hottest news from Witch Falls this weekend.
I seriously don’t want to hear those details; but then I’ll likely have
a different opinion about that once I’m a bit older. That change in attitude won’t include those
types of stories about my parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles; but I’m
sure that you know what I mean! ;^)
