Happy 1st Anniversary, Jake and
Stephanie!
It’s been a year already! How time flies when the newlyweds are away in
Europe for nearly ten months of that year! ;^)
Their anniversary celebration wasn’t
European-vacation level fun, but they did at least have the day off; and didn’t
have to work all day at the Inn.
Unfortunately, they also didn’t get very
nice weather from early morning through until mid-afternoon; which is why their
dinner party was indoors instead of a back yard barbeque. Jacob and Miranda made that decision fairly
early when it was fairly clear that it would be too wet out for a party even if
it did stop raining. That made getting
ready for the party and doing the chores a bit tougher, so I helped out once I
was finished my own chores at home by mid-morning. Michael and I worked together most of the
time, so we had some fun along the way, but Jacob and Miranda needed worker
bees for everything surrounding the dinner party; so we did a lot of work today
and didn’t play all that much.
That isn’t exciting for us, but we did our
part to make the day special for Jake and Stephanie; so it was worth it. I won’t bore you with the work details, but
the house was basically cleaned from top to bottom; we helped with the major
meal; and Michael and I also took care of getting Jake and Stephanie’s room at
the Inn set up with everything Miranda and Samantha put together for them –
including champagne on ice, Olde Bakery treats, and a couple of gifts that we
didn’t ask about because we were pre-warned that at least one of us wouldn’t
want to know.
Michael and I also took care of the
dinnertime work with help from Rebecca and Lucas so that Miranda and Jacob
could enjoy the meal with the rest of their family and friends, so we ate when
we could; and kept busy running between the kitchen and dining room as
needed. We still had some fun with that,
but by the time we finished the clean-up after Jake, Stephanie, and most of
their friends went out to the pub; I was on the way to being wiped out. That’s why I went home not long after we
finished cleaning the kitchen and dining room; though I stayed for a bit of
cuddle time with Michael in the living room while Rebecca went home with Lucas
for the night with plans to spend her Tuesday on the farm.
I came home early because I didn’t want to
be up all night doing my family business work – and had a lot to get done. Despite being tired, I got right to that
while multi-tasking a long soak in my Jacuzzi while in a time phase. I stayed in that time phase through until I
finished my work; and I was in bed and cuddled with Mandy by then. I’m back in normal time again, and have only
done a quick, final check of my email and a scan of the headlines around the
world before getting to this report. Now
that I’ve added in that power drain from the time phase and everything else I
did with a bit of Magi-powered help; I’m past-ready to crash for the
night. Michael and I still have more
chores to do tomorrow, and we have marching band and teen praise team practices
too; but I’m hoping we’ll get to have a bit of play time too.
Maybe that’ll work out for us, since it
didn’t today, but I’ll have to let you know how that goes with my next report;
since I do still need to live it; while this is all near or distant past for
you as you’re reading this someday in my future. Heading off into nap mode now will at least
have me ready to handle whatever happens, though, and I don’t have anything
else to add tonight; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
