Happy 2nd Anniversary, Mom and Dad!
Second anniversary gifts are supposed to be cotton or
china. I seriously doubt we could buy
China despite how many little pieces we do own there; and I can’t see Mom or
Dad taking up cotton farming; so what do you get a couple who has everything?
Well, we do have everything we dreamed possible; but Ethan,
Ehlana, and I didn’t really have any problems finding gifts for our
parents. We gave them one of those gifts
this morning in bed, and then Mom and the twins surprised Dad and me with a
pair of little gifts to celebrate our second Father and Daughter anniversary
too. That, Tai Chi by the river, and a
special breakfast made for a great start to the day, but it was still a school
and work day; and we all needed to get back to the real world for a while.
There isn’t much of anything to report from school. Morning classes were fairly quiet except for
one quiz; Rowen and I practiced in the music room again at lunchtime; and other
than having a bit too much politics in Social Studies, which will probably
continue off and on until after the elections next month, Art and computers
classes were mostly play time for us. I
was on the volunteer list for Aunt Leanne’s party work crew, and drafted Rowen
to come along and help out too; so we checked in with the parents; dropped our
bags off; and hurried over to Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne’s house.
It’s been a really nice day, and Aunt Leanne had considered
having dinner outdoors, but decided to have it in the dining room instead;
mostly because it would be dark by the time the party was over; and cleaning up
would be harder. Rowen and I were first
put on table set-up, and then we worked the prep line for an hour or so before
being sent home to get cleaned up and changed.
We were on babysitting duty after getting back again, and we played with
Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden in the living room. We were the only kids at the party, but the
real significance is that the twins and I had our best friends with us for the
party. Since Aiden still isn’t quite a
year old, he and Ethan aren’t exactly best buds yet, but they will be; and
Ehlana and Naomi already are.
Mom and Dad were fairly thoroughly roasted during dinner,
but I didn’t completely escape notice; and Aunt Leanne especially made a point
of including some of her favorite stories about me. Since none of those stories involved her
matchmaking efforts on me, it was all good; and a lot of fun. Grandpa was probably the next most-active
storyteller, but all of our friends helped out too; and we spent about two and
a half hours in the dining room from the time we sat down until finishing
after-dinner drinks. Cleaning up took
another hour, and Rowen and I helped with that while Mom, Dad, Grandma, and
Grandpa were put in charge of the kids and shipped off to the living room.
Ethan, Ehlana, and I found out that we were doing sleepovers
when the party started breaking up; and Aunt Leanne came home with Mom, Dad,
Rowen, and me so I could get my overnight bag packed, and take it, and my
computer bag, with me to Rowen’s house.
Aunt Leanne threw together a few things for the twins, and it wasn’t
long before we were all on our way; and Mom and Dad were kid-free for the rest
of the night. Patrick had been spending
the evening at Scott’s, and Rowen and I got the bonus news from her parents
that he’d be spending the night with the Faulkners. We still had our homework to get done, so we
did that first; spent an hour watching television with her parents after that;
and then got ready for bed.
We’ve been playing on our computers since then. I’ve only done the basic nightly computing,
and we’ve spent the rest of the time chatting and surfing for random
entertainment. I’ve skipped the extra
studying and archive work, but we have somehow managed to lose track of a
couple of hours while we’ve played; and it’s time to wrap this up and get to
sleep.
Say ‘goodnight, Cassie and Rowen’.
“Goodnight Cassie and Rowen.”
