Happy 3rd Birthday, Valerie!
We had a breakfast call with Valerie, her
parents, and brother; and sent a gift that was there for her to open; but didn’t
get together with the Malloys. She did
have a party today, though; and I’m sure that Angela and Terry helped to make
sure she had a very happy day.
Our fun here at home wasn’t on the birthday
party level, but there was a lot going on – and I again had nothing to do with
most of the biggest news. The top story
around here is that the outer shell of the new addition for the church was
finished today. That didn’t get talked
about yesterday while we were there; so I’ll guess that the construction guys
wanted to make sure that everything was done before making that
announcement. There’s still a lot to do
indoors, including knocking out some walls between the old and new sections of
the church; but the crews will be able to work indoors most of the time all
winter; and they’re ahead of schedule thanks to the extended spell of nice
weather we’ve had for the past couple of weeks.
That, by the way, has been good for the
ongoing harvests around here too; and the farmers are generally all fairly
happy right now. I should also mention
that the crops that the farmers are growing for the lab are doing as well as
expected; and the best sign of that is that it doesn’t look as though the lab
will need to pay out any crop failure subsidies at all. They’re buying up a lot of seed to get ready
for a big expansion next year; but I’ll leave the details for stuff like that
to the archives that Uncle Adam and Ehlana are keeping for the lab. Feel free to read up on all of that boring
science and agricultural business stuff there! ;^)
Closer to home – like here in the house;
the back porch to sunroom conversion work is almost finished. We haven’t been allowed to go in and see it
in a while now; but Dad did tell us that the finishing work will be done
sometime in the next two days and then there will be new furniture delivered
for it on Wednesday or Thursday – in time for their anniversary on Friday. Since Mom has been around here and none of it
is a surprise; Dad’s at least hoping that she’ll love getting to see the
finished room on Friday morning. If that’s
anything like when I got to see my room for the first time; it’ll be amazing
for Mom. I can hardly wait for Friday!
Then again, I’m looking forward to morning
and sharing Michael’s fifteenth birthday with him; so I’d better move this
update along and get some sleep.
Compared to all of that, my day has been
fairly uneventful. Tai Chi by the river
was nice; breakfast with Mom, Dad, and the twins was pretty much all of the
time I spent with them today until after I got home from Michael’s house
tonight. We had a good day at school;
cheerleading practice was fun; and then I went home with Michael to have dinner
there and then spend the evening studying, having a music practice, wrapping
that up with a minor make-out session, and ending my evening there with a
bedtime chat with his parents and Rebecca before I came home again. Mom did my Magi lesson then; I had a chat
with her, Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana; and then I took care of getting the twins
tucked in for the night on my way up to my room.
It’s been all work and study since then
once I was in bed with Mandy and my computer, but I time phased some of that;
and didn’t have as much to do thanks to the bonus work and studying on the
weekend. That’ll give me the chance to
have a couple of extra hours of sleep, and since I do have a birthday dinner to
go to tomorrow in addition to school and three practices; I’d better get to the
napping so that I’ll be ready for all of that.
Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
