It’s a good thing that I’m going to sleep early tonight –
I’ve had a long, busy day!
Since everyone at school will be spending most of the day
doing work around town for the holiday weekend tomorrow; our teachers had us
studying a bit harder than usual today.
For our grade and above, that was mostly because we’re now down to four
usable school days left to get ready for final exams. They start a week from this coming Monday;
though stressing about them won’t start until after the holiday weekend.
After a mostly-all-work school day, my first job once I got
home was to cut the grass so that wouldn’t need to be done on the weekend. That actually took most of the time I had
available between the end of school and the start of baseball practice; but I
was able to get a couple of little family business issues dealt with while
having a sandwich and mac salad dinner.
Rowen stopped in to get me on her way to the park, and we biked to the
baseball diamond. This was only our
second practice, but I already think we have a great team this year. We definitely had a better practice tonight
than Mom and Dad did last night – though we don’t have nearly as many
non-baseball distractions as the Fix-it Uppers do.
While I’m on that particular subject, though, there is one
thing about moving up a division that’s been weird so far – girls on the team
with boyfriends hanging around. That
wasn’t much of an issue during the last three years; but it might be a problem
this season if those boys become too distracting during our games. Even Carolyn Landry isn’t totally immune, and
not only is she the most dedicated player on the team, her Mom’s with us too;
and every boy in town is acutely aware of the fact that Lee Landry is her
father.
Moving along, Rowen helped to make sure that my game night
at the Inn was more interesting than I’d
expected it to be when she couldn’t go tonight.
She had orders to go straight home from our practice and help out with
getting the house ready for holiday weekend guests. That’s likely all you needed to read to know
that Michael and I were paired up for the night, while Rebecca conveniently
felt the need to play with her cousin, Jessica, instead.
No, we didn’t win the junior championship, but we did have
fun hanging out together – even with all of the nudges and hints directed our
way from Aunt Leanne and the rest of her little matchmaking team. Rowen will likely be as disappointed as Aunt
Leanne seemed to be when her efforts didn’t get any results at all. I even managed to escape before she could
orchestrate another group walk home with Michael and his family; and I didn’t
even hug Michael goodnight because he and Jake were in the kitchen when I left
for home.
Mom did a Magi lesson with me after we put Ethan and Ehlana
to bed for the night, and I opted for a quick shower instead of taking the
extra time for a bath before climbing into bed with Mandy. Getting to sleep ‘early’ is relative to my
normal school night studies, since it is after eleven; but I’ll still get about
three hours more sleep than usual. I’m
definitely ready to do that now, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
