Happy 17th Birthday, Vanessa!
I didn’t have much involvement in her
special day because she and Nora went to the city with their boyfriends for the
day instead of doing a party at home or elsewhere around here; so we dropped a
gift off this morning and only had a bit of a visit before getting on with our
day.
This is supposed to be a double-update,
though; so let’s back things up to Monday morning.
Tai Chi by the river was cooler, but still
warm; breakfast was standard fare for a weekday; and then I spent the morning
working on chores with Mom while multi-tasking some family business work. The twins were al the lab for the morning;
and then Mom took them out to Quarry Lake with some other Moms and kids while
Michael and I helped out with Ryan’s birthday entertainment – also at Quarry
Lake. We took a picnic; Michael and I
took Dad’s truck and a load of Ryan’s friends; and Jacob and Miranda helped out
with the party too. Michael was in high
demand with Ryan and his buddies, so he played with them a lot – whether that
was climbing the rock wall, going on the zip line, or playing in and around the
lake. I helped out more with the work
and had a bit of fun with Jessica, Sophia, and the other girls and Moms.
Ryan’s party moved back to his house for a
barbeque dinner, campfire, and camping adventure. I helped out with some of that, but also
caught Ethan’s ball practice; and then it was time for our girls’ night while
some of our boys were busy with Ryan’s camping adventure. Ethan wasn’t in on that, but he went for a
sleepover at Aiden’s house while ours was in use by a gang of girls. Dad didn’t get invited to any sleepovers too,
but we made an exception for him; and Mom didn’t seem to mind keeping him here
when she did go off to bed after joining us for some of the girl chat, makeover
fun, and part of a chick flick movie.
My little placeholder update from last
night came while I did my early bedtime email check; and I was good with taking
a night off from the late night computing.
Rowen and I had fun with the other teens, tweens, and younger girls; but
we were also glad to get some time to hang out together without the boys – and on
our own after everyone else either headed for bed or camped out in the lounge
with plans to stay awake as long as they could while watching more movies.
I won’t go into the details, but Rowen and
I had a long talk last night about her plans for Tim’s seventeenth
birthday. I’ll have more on that when it’s
closer to his special day, but for now; I’ll just add that I’m going to help
her out with some girlfriend support that will include some shopping and a bit
of party planning. Since she’s getting
into that now, I suppose I’ll need to think about Michael’s birthday soon too,
but I do still have time; and will need to wait to find out about the football
schedule and everything else we’ll have on the go first; so there isn’t a huge
hurry for me to get on that quite yet anyway.
Rowen and I managed to get some sleep last
night; we were busy this morning with the gang we needed to feed; and then
Rowen went to work at the store or data center; and I had another morning of
chores and family business work. Michael
worked at home all morning; met up with me for lunch; and then we had a play
afternoon with Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden.
It was another triple-digit heat afternoon here, so we weren’t exactly
working very hard as we played; and we spent a lot of time cooling off in the
river. There was one bike ride that
included picking up frozen treats at the Emporium; but we didn’t push the
riding very hard either. Mom and Dad had
an early dinner ahead of Ehlana’s ball practice; it was shortened due to the
heat too; and we moved inside for the evening after a post-baseball swim.
Michael stayed for the evening; we had a
Magi lesson with Mom and the twins after Naomi and Aiden went home; and then
Michael and I watched a movie in the lounge while the twins went to bed early
and Mom and Dad worked in the office.
Okay, we didn’t actually watch the movie
while having fun with a minor make-out session, but cut us some slack; since we’ll
be back to work again tomorrow and will be busy for the rest of the week! ;^)
We’re working the breakfast shift in the
morning, so Michael went home at eleven-thirty, and while I was tempted to keep
him; we decided to be good – and I opted to do some extra family business work
to get ahead of things – and in case I need to put in more time at the Inn
again between now and Sunday. I did some
of that work in a time phase, so it isn’t too late, but then I do have to get
up in a few hours for that breakfast shift; so I should wrap this up and get
started on that nap.
Oh wait – one more thing. Michael skipped football on Monday evening
because of Ryan’s birthday; and Tim had to cancel tonight because he was stuck
at work due to emergency repair calls that have been piling up due to the
extreme heat that is even tougher on farm equipment than it is on the
farmers. Tim won’t be happy about that,
but Michael does do a lot of hard work; so I don’t think he’ll have to worry
about being out of shape when football camp opens for the team in August.
Okay, that’s it for tonight; so, until next
time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
