The countdown is on for Violet and Dillon’s
wedding; and the most-obvious sign of that at our house was the arrival of
Uncle Rick, Aunt Melissa, Chris, Martin, and Dawn. The ‘kids’ are only here for the weekend; and
will be home for school or work for most of next week; but Violet’s parents
will be here until Memorial Day to help out with both the wedding and getting
their apartment set up next week.
I had a bedtime visit with Dawn tonight;
but haven’t spent much time with anyone else because they didn’t get here until
this afternoon or evening in two separate arrivals; and I was either at school
or the Inn through until we closed the Inn at ten-thirty. Michael and I need to work the breakfast
shift too, and I had some family business work pop up that needed to be dealt
with; so it’s later than I wanted it to be for my bedtime tonight.
There is lots of other news going on around
here, but not much of it has anything to do with me. For today, the return of our senior class
from their grad trip to the east coast was a big story – though they didn’t get
here until after dinner; and I didn’t spend much time with Rebecca and Lucas
because they stopped in for a visit and then headed out to the farm for the
night. Michael and I will catch up on
the trip news with Rebecca over the weekend while we all work at the Inn; but
that was one more blast of fun that we missed out on today.
Violet and Dillon’s wedding is a big deal
for our family with a week to go, but there is another big wedding happening
tomorrow for the Carter-Reynolds clans.
I won’t be involved in that either, but the wedding and reception for
Christie Carter and Ray Reynolds will be out at the ranch tomorrow; and my
parents will be among the guests for the ceremony; but they won’t be at the
reception too because they’ll be at the party at Sheldon’s for Violet and
Dillon – while I’ll be working at the Inn and babysitting. That’s a story that can wait until after it
happens, though; so let’s keep this moving along.
It’s been a messy weather day off-and-on
around here with bits of rain and some thunderstorms rolling through in waves
that left things damp but we also had hours of fairly-decent weather too. The rain didn’t affect me much because I was
indoors for most of it except the walk home after work tonight. We had a quiet day at school; the dinner rush
at the Inn was busier than normal; and Michael and I worked until close because
we were still light on staff due to the senior school trip. Michael came home with me so he could join in
for a short visit with my aunt, uncle, and cousins; but then he went home to
get some sleep by eleven-thirty; and Dawn and I came up to bed to have our
little girl chat time before she was ready to turn in too.
Dawn’s going to help out with the wedding
prep work over the weekend, and help Michael and me with the babysitting
tomorrow night while the adults in our family are at the pub for the evening;
but I don’t think we’ll end up having a lot of time together because I’ll also
be putting in extra time at the Inn – particularly when this will be our first
Sunday with the full dining room available for our customers. Miranda isn’t quite ready to staff buffets
for six hundred and fifty a sitting; so let’s hope we don’t completely sell out
this weekend!
Dawn and I ended up talking for nearly an
hour; she went to bed in Violet’s ‘old’ room – the one that Violet will use
next Friday night ahead of her wedding while our house is bridal party central
next weekend. I finished getting ready
for bed after that; did my bedtime computer check; and ended up doing that
extra family business work because I didn’t want to leave it until Sunday
night. That wasn’t a big deal, but took
a bit of time; and now I’ll have to settle for a long nap before getting up
again for my breakfast shift at the Inn.
I’ll also have a chores day around here that could be messy if we get as
much rain overnight as they’re forecasting; and then I’ll work the
dinner-to-close shift with Michael because Miranda will need the help while
Jake and Stephanie are busy with Violet and Dillon’s party. In addition to Dawn, Rowen and Tim will be
among our teen babysitting helpers; so we’ll have a gang of kids at our house
overnight on Saturday. Camping may be
involved; but that’ll be a ‘game-time’ decision for later tomorrow.
I’ll keep you updated on all of that with
the next report, but it’s past-time for me to crash and sleep now; so, until
next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
