Happy 16th Birthday, Rowen!
This update is coming to you early because
I’m not sure that I’ll be able to keep from having an un-planned nap while
doing my work and studying. It’s been a
long day already; and I’m already having trouble staying awake and focused even
on this report.
Michael and I skipped Tai Chi this morning;
we met up and went to Rowen’s house in time to help out with making her special
birthday breakfast; and then we had fun with the birthday entertainment as she
opened gifts and we had a birthday cake for dessert because she doesn’t have
time for a party tonight thanks to our band practices. Sure, she could have taken the night off, but
her parents have the store on Christmas hours anyway, and most of her friends
were at band practice anyway; so that’s why we did the birthday breakfast
instead. WE also had a birthday party at
lunch for her so that her extended group of friends could get in on that too –
and we could do that now that we’re done with football cheerleading.
We didn’t want to skip the band practices –
and for me; that was especially because Michael can come to the concert band
practices again too now that football season is over. Christmas music was the name of the band game
today, and while getting ready for the parades we have over the next two
weekends was a big part of that; we’re also working hard on the music for the
school Christmas pageant and the Christmas party for the Seniors that we’ll
play at again this year. For marching
band; we worked on parade marching instead of football field shows, and while
that wasn’t all that tough for most of us; we did need to do the work to get
our turns cleaned-up. We also worked on
our cold-weather marching – though it wasn’t cold out while we were practicing
tonight.
It did start cooling off today, though; and
it will be cooler-still by parade time on Friday night. I’ll keep you posted on that; but let’s get
back to Rowen and her big day.
Rowen passed her driver’s test this
morning; so she’s joined that club; and she took Tim for a drive in his
Corvette after marching band practice before going on to whatever they did for
the rest of the night while Michael and I were busy with teen praise team
practice and the studying we did after coming back to my house once we were
done at the church. She doesn’t have a
new car or any other seriously awesome gift that any teen would drool over, but
she was happy with her gifts; and Tim did a good job for the boyfriend gifts –
thanks to some help from Michael and me and the magic of online shopping! I’m only mentioning the low-key gift thing
because I do only seem to mention those extreme gifts in my journal; so I
should include a bit of perspective when the gifts that Rowen got today were
closer to the norm for most teens around here.
As I’ve mentioned, Michael and I did our
homework at my house after our teen praise team practice; and we got started on
that late because of the usual practice over-runs that add up to a late end to
our final practice of the day. We did
that studying in a time phase; that helped Mom, Dad, and the twins with their
own work or studying; and then Mom did a short Magi lesson with Michael and me
before he headed home for the night. Mom
and Dad took care of getting Ethan and Ehlana tucked in for the night; so I
haven’t been here in my room for long – and it didn’t take long to get changed
and ready for bed before getting to this update.
I do want to get all of my work and
studying done, but really might not last as long as I need to for that to
happen. That’s something that you’ll
need to flip the digital page for to find out, though; since I need to get
started on that work now and won’t know if I get everything finished or not
until I either do or don’t make that happen.
Maybe I’d better have a nap and then try to
work if everything I try to do is as messed up as that thought!
That’s too tempting, and I’m really just
procrastinating now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
