Ethan and Ehlana:
Thanks to weather forecasting that kept changing, the surprise for many of us this morning was having a bit of snow on the ground, and while it wasn’t a lot; there was enough to require a light round of shoveling before breakfast – and after Tai Chi that needed to be indoors because of the white, fluffy stuff. Getting our gang of girls and tweens fed and ready for church kept us busy the rest of the time before we had parental support for rides to the church; and then the teen-led holiday service was awesome!
For an ‘away’ family holiday weekend, this was one of our busiest, and that non-stop action continued after church as we helped out with getting kids packed and ready to head home before we all headed to the Inn for the first buffet of the day at noon. Miranda and Stephanie had a full house for that sitting – and probably all of them today – and that was at least partly due to the overnight snow even though it has been sunny for most of today and the snow melted off of the roads fairly-quickly. Holiday traffic can be a mess even on good days, though; so the only exceptions to early departures were for grandparents that wanted to spend a bit of extra time with hometown grandkids. Our early main meal of the day was amazing; we wrapped up early to make room for the next round of customers; and the goodbyes outside of the Inn were fairly-quick and entertaining.
Ehlana and I brought Naomi, Aiden, Sophia, and Aaron home with us so that we could do a band practice, and we had a lot of fun with that too, but then our friends needed to move on to help out with their own families and home chores; we worked with Mom to do the same here; and Dad spent the rest of his day in the office. We had a leftovers dinner that was more of a snack; kept at the work including some family business work in the office and a Magi lesson with Mom; and now we’ve just wrapped up bath or Jacuzzi time and plan on an early bedtime to catch up on the sleep we didn’t get over the past couple of nights.
We haven’t covered the rest of the story from yesterday, but let’s make that quick; and then we really need to move on to some quality nap time. Sebastian’s birthday dinner was a mix of good and bad fun; Zack and Eli were next-level scary pretty much the entire time we were there; and I am very glad that Naomi, Ehlana, and Sophia made exceptions for their favorite boys and let us stay with them; since I really didn’t want to deal with that kind of fun for the rest of the night. Uncle Nick and Aunt Deborah were proof that I was right about that by this morning; and that was true to some extent for the rest of the adults that spent the weekend with them – especially the parents with toddlers that didn’t get enough sleep because of the all-night video gaming and partying. Compared to that, helping out with the work around our house and keeping the girls supplied with drinks and snacks during the movies and mini-makeovers was a breeze; the later-evening co-ed cuddling and movie time was awesome; and then the co-ed sofa or ‘nest’ sleepovers kept us happy all night! ;^)
That’s quick-enough – though we should add that Sebastian loved his gifts; the usual birthday fun around dinner and dessert partially made up for the games and pranks; and we have been assured that our aunt and uncle will be very happy if they don’t have to do another holiday weekend birthday party for their son ever again! That might be wishful thinking, since his birthday will be on the holiday weekend again in just four years, but maybe they’re hoping that he’ll have a girlfriend by then to host the party for him – or send him away for a special birthday-holiday weekend!
We might be interested in chaperoning a trip like that if it was to somewhere good in four years, but that’s a happy thought for another time – or in our dreams; so we’re done with this update and moving on to nap time starting right now!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
