Okay, I need to do a double update while
also keeping it short so that I can get some sleep and be ready for a very busy
Mother’s Day tomorrow.
Let’s actually try to do that!
My Friday was amazing!
Too short?
Yeah, so let’s hit the highlights.
Tai Chi in the morning and breakfast that
Michael stayed for before rushing off to his weight training was really
good. My school day was busy, and we did
a lot of work; but we had fun all day too.
Once we were set free, thanks to the rain that never arrived in our
little town; Michael and I were free to have some after-school play time. Rowen and Tim joined us for that; and we took
Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden with us so that Mom could get a break – at least
from the kids. Getting ready to host our
dinner and a play night was another issue; but then she had lots of help for
that from my grandparents and some of the other adults.
The park playground is still under
construction; so we went for a bike ride; played at the school; and went for
ice cream at the Emporium on our way to the falls. Rowen and Tim had other plans for dinner and
the rest of the night; so they moved on after helping Michael and me with
getting the four younger kids home. He
and I were on kid control with grandpa from then until dinnertime; and it was
while we were hanging out in the back yard that the sleepover suggestion was
made and approved by the parents for Michael, Naomi, and Aiden. We had to have a late dinner so that everyone
could get to our house after work; and we sent some dinner care packages to the
parents that couldn’t join us for the meal.
We – the kids – got to have dinner with
Grandma and Grandpa; and that meant that our entertainment was a handful of
travel stories that Grandpa told us while we munched on barbeque chicken, ribs,
or steaks with cold salad sides and raw veggies. Michael and I were drafted for the clean-up
crew after dinner, and then we moved on to some outdoor play time that included
a small-group canoe ride downriver and back; and some games in the back
yard. The party broke up by dusk as
parents wanted to take tired kids home to bed – and Aunt Leanne was ready for
some nap time by then too; so Michael and I moved on to the lounge with four
junior movie enthusiasts so that we could watch a movie before they went to bed
for the night.
The movie was okay; we had fun getting my
brother, sister, and their friends tucked in for the night; and then Michael
and I had a fairly hot make-out session in the lounge while not watching a
second movie before we happily snuggled close and then fell asleep on the
sofa. That actually wasn’t planned, but
we didn’t have a problem with it; and our wake-up hugs and kisses were great
too – though that had to wait until after Ehlana and Naomi woke us up for Tai
Chi.
We dodged some rain to be out by the river
for our workout; and then the rush was on to get ready for the day; have
breakfast; and then get to work. For
Michael, that meant going home to do some chores there while I was teamed up
with Dad for the yard work side of our weekend to-do list. Rain was in the forecast for today again, but
we ended up more on the miss side of the hit
and miss rain; and it really didn’t get in the way of our work at
all. I’ll skip the boring details for
all of that; and just carry on from when we wrapped up our work day at
four-thirty so that we could hit the showers and get cleaned up.
Naomi and Aiden had gone home long before
then, so I spent some time playing with Ethan and Ehlana before dinner; we had
a little pot-luck family barbeque for anyone that wanted to come over instead
of doing their own meals; and then I was again on the clean-up crew before
being set free for the evening. I needed
to get some homework done this weekend, and since my friends were busy too; I
did that after dinner. Ethan, Ehlana,
and I followed that up with another movie in the lounge; and then Michael came
over after he was done at the Inn so that we could go over our song for the
Mother’s Day service one more time. He
also stayed long enough to do the bedtime routine with Ethan and Ehlana, and we
had a very minor make-out session back in the lounge before he needed to get
home and I needed to get ready for bed and started on my nightly computer
checks.
Mandy and I had ourselves tucked in by a
bit after eleven, and there hasn’t been much on the work front for me to deal
with tonight; so the computer and email checks, along with one family business
issue; didn’t take long to wrap up. As I
mentioned, we do have a full day booked for tomorrow, so I’m glad that I don’t
need to stay up late with my work. Mom
has the day off tomorrow, and while I’m going to help out at the Inn a bit too;
Dad and I will be doing all of the work at home too. We’ll have some fun too; but I expect to be
tired out before even getting to my usual school night studies and work
tomorrow night.
With that in mind, that’s going to be it
for now; and, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
