The last day of February has been a very
busy one for me – and for a lot of us here in and around our little town.
First in the news is that it’s Shrove
Tuesday; so breakfast for all meals was very popular – and that was why Jacob
and Miranda had to work at the Inn today to help keep up with the extra
business for all three meals. I was
booked with band and praise team practices tonight, so my pancakes and bacon
meal was at breakfast; and Michael stayed to do that with us while his parents
were at work anyway. That was a lot of
fun – and so was Tai Chi by the river thanks to continuing, temporary
warm-up. We had a bit of rain here and
there today, but it didn’t really start coming down until around dinnertime and
into the evening.
That rain got in the way of our marching
band practice, and we got a bit wet getting between practices and then home
again; but we were indoors for most of the day and the weather wasn’t an issue.
While I couldn’t have breakfast for lunch
or dinner, we did still get to have some Shrove Tuesday fun at school because
Michael and I left for school early; we went to the Olde Bakery, and picked up
a couple of boxes of Paczkis to share with some of our siblings, cousins, and
friends. It’s likely for the best that
the Olde Bakery doesn’t make and sell them every day, since that might overload
even my hyper-active, Magi powered metabolism!
They are delicious, though, and I ate two of them – one at lunch; and
one between band practices. Since I’m
thinking about bands, I’ll also mention that the funds that weren’t spent on
the trip – and we’re not talking about a lot of money – will be split and donated
to our two schools for other projects.
Mum would have topped up the accounts if we’d actually ended up a bit
short even after the lab donation, but the last of the bills for the trip are
all pretty much in now; and our last fruit and vegetable boxes orders made sure
that we had enough to cover all of those little expenses – like the spending
money that the chaperones used to help out some of the teens and tweens while
we were in Florida.
We had a good day at school; our band practices
were a bit quieter this week – though that’s emotionally-speaking; since the
marching band practice was louder while we marched in the gym. Our teen praise team practices are getting a
bit more serious because we are getting closer to Easter; and while that seems
like a long time away right now; we also only have five more practices to go
until then – after tonight; and we still have a lot of work to do before we’ll
be ready for our annual sunrise service and the rest of the music we’ll be
doing over the Easter season. We also
have the music for one of the March Break Sundays, though that won’t be our
full praise team; because a couple of our members will be away on holidays that
week.
Next up for the news of the day, I brought
Michael home with me after our practice at the church so that we could do our
homework – and a Magi lesson – together.
We didn’t even get started on that until a bit after ten o’clock; I used
a time phase; and that helped Dad with getting his work done too by the time we
wrapped up at a bit after eleven.
Michael and I then put the twins to bed; had a bit of alone time in the
lounge; and then he went home before midnight so that I could get to work on my
usual stack of bedtime computing.
I won’t bore you with those details; since
I’m ready to be sleeping anyway. We’ve
had a good day; it’s been an awesome bonus to basically get through February
without any snow worth mentioning; and I’ll be a very happy camper if we get
that lucky for the last weeks of winter as we head into spring!
Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
