Ethan:
This has probably been our shortest day in
the last couple of weeks, but I’m tired; so this is going to be a short report.
We were up early; it was a bit of a crazy
morning as we got ready for the big departure – and going to church. I helped out with breakfast; getting Jayden
packed; and hauling luggage out to Mom’s minivan. Once our cousins were ready to go home; we
walked or drove to the church. Wrapping
up our cousins’ hometown holiday with a church service probably wouldn’t be
high on the fun list for most kids, and that might be true for some of our
cousins too; but I had fun with Jayden, Aiden, and everyone else; and then we
hit the road for our half-way meeting place with Uncle Blaine and Aunt Alison.
We drove for a couple of hours; had lunch
and a visit with our aunt and uncle that lasted a couple of hours; and then we
came home again and had a quiet rest of the day and evening. Ehlana and I got together with Naomi and
Aiden for a little while before dinner while Mom and Dad did some work around
the house and office; we had dinner for four in the sunroom; and an even
quieter evening of work and studying.
Now I’m in bed and ready to get a good
night of sleep; and then we’ll get back to our more-normal summertime routine –
starting with a return to the lab and archives for Ehlana and me!
Ethan – out!
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Ehlana:
I had fun today, and we’ve had an awesome
week with our cousins, but the news of the day for me is that I’m going to get
to play in my lab again now that our cousins have gone home.
That’s really all I’m thinking about now –
and I’ve had lots of ideas about our research while we’ve been too busy for me
to work there; so I just want to get some sleep and be ready for that play time
with Uncle Adam and Dillon.
Oh yeah – and Grandma and Grandpa arrived
safely in China and will be resting up before getting started on their
adventures there!
Compared to that, spending four hours or so
in the van on a flying round-trip to get our cousins half-way home and a pretty
good lunch in the middle of that drive just doesn’t seem like that big of a
deal – even though we did have fun with that too.
That is all for tonight, though; so I’m out
of here and heading off to some cuddle and nap time with Mandy. She won’t stay with me once Cassie gets home
from work unless she’s really comfortable and decides to stay; but she is still
fun to cuddle with until I fall asleep on nights when Silkie’s with Ethan.
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
