Happy 16th Birthday, Karla!
We had a bit of a birthday moment for her
at lunchtime, but Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I could only stop by for a visit to
her birthday party between practices.
That party, by the way, was at Brock’s house because none of us would
have had time to go out to Karla’s farm for a birthday party; and that included
Karla and Brock because they’re in the marching band too. Karla got her license today, though, so that
was what she cared most about – just as pretty much every farm kids do when it’s
their turn to reach that level of teen freedom.
I’m glad that Karla has had a good
day. Mine has been pretty good too;
though it has been too long; and I’m exhausted as I write this report. My morning started out quietly-enough; and
the birthday fun at lunchtime was the highlight of our school day. Life got busier for me with the start of our
concert band practice. That wasn’t as
much fun without Michael, but as usual; he was at football practice
instead. Rowen and I still had fun with
that practice; we managed to work on four of the songs we’ll be learning over
the next couple of months; and then we did a bit of work on the fundraising
side of the marching band until Michael and Tim were finished their practice
and we could run over to Brock’s house for our cameo visit to Karla’s
party. I needed to be back to the school
quickly so that I could deal with more fundraising issues as the band members
arrived and wanted to deal with things like new orders for the fruit and
vegetable boxes; helping with the raffle tickets and money coming in from them;
and a bit of work with the band uniforms – particularly for teens looking to
get the heavier clothes that we’ll all need this fall and winter.
Our marching band practice was busy as we
continued to work on both the music and our half-time marching routine. Michael and I had a lot of fun with all of
that, and though he was getting tired after a long football practice; that didn’t
get in the way of playing great and keeping up with me.
Don’t laugh at that – keeping up with a
hyper-active Magi Master is tougher than you might think! ;^)
The marching band practice went long again;
so our teen praise team practice was delayed by nearly a half hour. Stacey doesn’t mind that delay, and she was
at the school for the last bit of our marching band practice to watch the show
while waiting for those of us on the praise team to be ready to practice with
her. We do have a bit of time to get
ready for the next church service the teens will be leading; so that practice
was kept shorter so that we could get home and start in on our homework – for those
of us unable to do that earlier. It was
still past-nine before Michael came home with me and we could get started on
our homework. We did that in the office
so that we could talk with Mom, Dad, and the twins while they worked or studied
too; so we had fun with that as well; and Mom did another Magi lesson with both
of us after we had the studying finished – and before Michael headed home for
the night at a bit after eleven o’clock.
I took care of getting Ethan and Ehlana
tucked in for the night after seeing Michael out with goodnight hugs and kisses
on the front porch; and then it was time for me to get to work on everything
else I still needed to get done once I was changed and into bed for the night
too. I didn’t feel up to a time phase,
but did work as quickly as I could using other Magi-powered talents. It’s still been hours since I started that
work; which is why I’m beyond exhausted now.
There was a lot of family business work to do – more than I’d expected;
and then I got bogged down with my language studies for a while – partly because
the work was so boring and made me sleepy.
Since all of that took so long, I kept the final computer check shorter;
and didn’t bother dealing with a handful of email that can wait for tomorrow.
This update is all I have left before
crashing for the bit of nap time I have left before it’ll be time to get up and
going again. I won’t say that all of the
work and studying has been fun tonight, since it hasn’t been, but I wasn’t
kidding about it being a good day; and that isn’t always true for these
extremely-long days. Getting some sleep
now will be really good too, though, and I’ve had enough fun for tonight; so,
until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
