Happy 50th Birthday, Jacob!
Not-so-happy Tax Day for everyone trying to
beat the deadline today! ;^)
We’ve had a nice weather day for both;
though I’m sure that Jacob’s birthday has been more fun for him than tax day
deadline issues have been for others all over the country.
Tai Chi by the river was nice, but we kept
that short so that Michael could get home and help with his father’s special
breakfast. I wasn’t in on that because
Rebecca and Michael wanted to do that with just their parents. I was busy with Mom and the twins instead,
though; and was in on the party tonight.
Before I go there, though; I’ll add in the news here that Mom is going
to the city tomorrow for a hotel sleepover with Dad; and Rowen and I will be
babysitting the twins. She’ll have the
day off from work because she’s been putting in extra time at the store and
data center during tax season; and we’re overdue for some best friends’
time. We haven’t decided for sure whether
we’ll have Aiden and Naomi with us; and there’s a chance we’ll have the girls
while the boys stay at Aiden’s so that we can have a girls’ night at our
house. I’ll keep you posted on that
later.
We had lots of time for breakfast and
getting ready for school; Michael and I had a good day while we were there; and
then we hurried home to his house to help with the party prep work. That ended up being an outdoor set-up since
it was so nice out; Miranda had lots of help with the food; and then Michael and
I were on kid control for the social hour and dinner for a very large gang of
family and friends. Getting the younger
kids fed kept us busy for a while; we were the delivery crew that took plates
of food to the friends that couldn’t come to us due to tax day; and then we
were on the clean-up crew after dinner while grandparents and parents took over
watching the kids.
With the renovations nearing completion at
the Inn, Jacob and Miranda couldn’t go away for a few days, but Lucas and I
could help them out with a kid-free night; which is why Michael is here with me
tonight and Rebecca is out at the farm.
I should also mention that we skipped all practices tonight to help and
attend the party instead, and from what I heard from some of the teen drop-in
guests to the party; the turnout for all three practices was very low because
of the combination of Jacob’s party and parents being busy with tax day.
By the way, it makes total sense to wait
until the last day to file returns if you have to make an additional payment to
the government, but it also makes sense to have everything ready to go and just
submit the returns on tax day instead of leaving most of the work until the
last minute too. Everyone doing those
jobs is always exhausted by the end of tax day after upwards of several months
of busy; and I always wish that Rowen’s parents didn’t have to work quite so
hard every April.
Okay, moving along; Michael and I worked
until around eight-thirty before the clean-up was done; we had some play time
with everyone after that until I brought Michael home with me when it was time
for the kids to leave and the adults to hang out together for a while
longer. We brought Ethan and Ehlana home
with us; took care of getting them into bed; and then did our homework while
waiting for Mom to get home. She ended
up staying at Michael’s house for quite a while; so I took care of my must-do
family business work while Michael surfed the net on his computer; Mom did a
Magi lesson with us when she got home; and now Michael and I are going to have
a sofa sleepover once I join him in the lounge.
I’m multi-tasking this last bit of bedtime
computing while getting ready for bed, and while we’ll be snuggling on the sofa
before midnight; I’m not planning on letting Michael fall asleep quite yet
because we are way overdue for some quality, teen-rated make-out fun!
The details for that won’t be in my next
report, but you don’t need a dose of future voyeurism about a couple of teen
Magi anyway; so don’t even use your imagination for that!
I do want to get to that Michael and me
playtime now, though, and I’m nearly-done getting cleaned up and ready to wow
him; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
