Our Christmas movie night was a lot of fun;
partially because I decided to do a bit of self-healing last night to make sure
that I didn’t fall asleep on Michael until we were ready to accidentally have a
sofa sleepover. The highlights last
night included having Mom and Dad join us for one of the movies; a pizza
bedtime snack; and lots of cuddle time.
I really love Naomi a lot, and she is always fun at movie nights because
of her single-minded dedication to making sure that everyone knows that Ethan
is her perfect match. As usual, that
included cuddling with him while we watched the television; she also pretended
to fall asleep shortly before the end of the last ‘kid’ show of the night; and
then seemed terribly disappointed when the teens and adults in the room were
each assigned a kid to carry down to the second floor and get tucked into beds
that were in girls’ and boys’ rooms.
Naomi isn’t actually wrong when she
suggests that it totally isn’t fair that Michael and I get away with sofa
sleepovers when Mom and Dad have nothing weird to worry about with her and
Ethan, but she is being careful with those jokes; since she does appreciate the
precedents that we’re setting for my younger siblings, their friends, and our
cousins.
After getting the four kids into bed, Mom
and Dad turned in too; Michael and I took care of the pizza snack clean-up; and
then we came back up to the lounge and had fun with a fairly-hot make-out
session while not watching a Hallmark Christmas chick flick. Don’t be scared, but I love those Hallmark
romances; and don’t mind admitting that to anyone – even if the guys sometimes
tease me about it. Last night, the
Michael and me time was more fun – and more important for us; so it was a
perfect way to end our day before we fell asleep together while snuggled under
a warm blanket on the sofa.
Warm is not a word that I’d use to describe
our Tai Chi by the river, but it was a nice morning despite the freezing
temperature; and we’ll keep exercising outdoors as much as we can ahead of the
annual return to indoor workouts for the winter. Our morning kept getting better because Mom
and Dad invited Jacob and Miranda to join us for breakfast because Rebecca was
at Lucas’ house overnight; and they decided to have breakfast with us instead
of doing that on their own. I really
loved getting to spend that time with our parents, and while I spent a lot of
time today with Michael’s Mom and Dad; it’s a lot different when we’re all
working at the Inn and the job comes first.
Cooking breakfast was a collaboration; Michael and I were the clean-up
crew volunteers with supervision from the four kids whenever they weren’t
taking turns getting ready for church.
The hour and a half we spent at the church
for the service and Sunday school was wonderful, and after a few hours of
too-busy; I was glad to have the break before heading for the Inn ad a full-day
shift there. That really was the last
break I had for the rest of the day through until now. Yes, Michael and I did take our breaks from
the work, but we had homework to do during our afternoon break; and we
half-worked while having our dinner break after the second buffet started and
there was work we could do in the back room to help out – mostly to get things
set up for Monday morning and the usual deliveries that come in to re-stock the
supplies we use up every weekend. We
had a short break after the Inn closed too, but I only stayed at Michael’s
house for fifteen minutes before coming home so that I could get to work on my
computer with the usual Sunday night family business and language studies fun.
Dad was finished his weekend work and
packing for his trip to the city in the morning; and he was that far along because
Mom used a time phase for their work – and so that Ethan and Ehlana could do
more studying for their college classes.
I spent some time with all of them while Ethan and Ehlana got ready for
bed; and then they all turned in while I came up to my room and began my work
with some tub time multi-tasking. I used
a time phase too when I could, but did nearly two hours of work in real time;
which is why I’m only going to have time for a nap before getting up again to
see Dad off on his way to Crystal Springs.
I finished everything on my to-do list
tonight, though, and need to keep ahead of the game now so that I can also work
ahead going into the holiday weekend that is now just ten days away. Let’s not go over the work details, since if
you’re that bored; there are other places in the archives to read all about the
family business if you have access to those archives. Most of the work was fairly boring to do; and
writing about it will just put me to sleep.
Oh wait, that’s where I want to be, but I
don’t really need the help when I’m this tired anyway; so let’s just call it a
night and I’ll head off to dreamland now.
This hasn’t been a top-ten best-ever kind
of weekend, but I have had enough fun to go along with all of the work; so I’ll
be having happy dreams tonight – and hope we’ll have a great week ahead of us
too. I’ll let you know how that goes for
us, but that’s all for now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
