I guess that the top news for today is that
the first deadline for our fruit and vegetable boxes fundraiser orders was
today; and we beat our target for that.
Helping out with that is one of my jobs with the committee, and I spent
some time working on that while at school.
The full order has been placed now; and the boxes will be delivered to
the school two weeks from today so that we can then deliver them to our customers. That’s all being done through the grocery
store, and the Bassetts are making a huge commitment to the band by doing this –
especially when they’re not only pretty much selling the boxes to us at cost;
but they’re also losing out on the sales they’d normally have had for those
fruits and vegetables if we weren’t doing this fundraiser.
While that was the big story at school
today, it’s tax day that is most important elsewhere in town – and everywhere
else in the country too. The deadline
for that this year is on Monday, but that still means that pretty much everyone
that is involved in tax returns in a big way has been busy today – and will be
all weekend. That’s definitely why Rowen
was working at the store tonight, and will be on Saturday and Sunday too; and I
don’t expect to see her a lot between now and Monday. Michael helped out with the dinner shift at
the Inn today too; and that was partially related to tax day because they were
busier than usual with more people in town dealing with taxes – as well as
other jobs while they were in town anyway.
I don’t have anything to deal with for that
right now; though taxes are always part of my work on the family business. Instead of working tonight, though, I was
home and having fun playing with my family and some of our friends. We hosted a barbeque dinner, but I was on kid
control before and during dinner; and only had to help out with the
clean-up. Ethan and Ehlana have Aiden and
Naomi here for the night, and they were at the house by the time I got home
from school; so I played with them – and then with all of my home-town cousins
once they joined the party with their parents.
That was a blast, and so was having dinner with them in the back yard –
though that got a bit messy too. It was
too cold to just dunk them in the river to clean them up; so we had to deal
with that in the kitchen – and that included some outfit changes where washing
up wasn’t enough.
The clean-up didn’t take long, and then we
went to the park for some play time.
That was a blast too, and even more fun for me when Michael met up with
us there and caught the tail-end of the playground action. It was time to split up after that, so Mom
and Dad only had six kids and teens with them when they went to do some work in
the office. Dad’s going to be in the
city next week, so he has a lot to get done this weekend. Michael and I took my brother, sister, and
their friends up to the lounge; and we watched a kids-choice movie to wrap up
our day. Michael was past-ready to wind
down by then, so we mostly just cuddled on the sofa and let the movie and the
kids keep us entertained for a couple of hours.
Michael needed to go home after that
because he’s working the breakfast shift at the Inn. We took care of getting Ethan, Ehlana, Aiden,
and Naomi tucked in for the night – though they didn’t go straight off to
sleep. I saw Michael out after that; had
a very short bedtime chat with Mom and Dad in the office; and then came up to
my room and got ready for bed. Mandy’s
currently hanging out with Naomi or Ehlana, so I’m on my own in my bed; but she’ll
likely come back up here later. I won’t
be awake by then, and since I didn’t have anything extra to do tonight for the
family business; my computer and email checks didn’t take very long – and there
isn’t anything newsworthy to write about from any of that. I am going to have a busy Saturday with
chores and a dinner shift at the Inn, though, and now that I don’t have hours
of work to still get done tonight; heading into nap mode is an option that I
plan on taking advantage of as soon as this update is finished.
It’s been a fun day, but that is all I have
for tonight; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
