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After M got home yesterday evening, we decided to just pay the fee and use PayPal to secure S's spot at her EVHT party. That was a load off my mind. Time limits, forms, technology, and worrying about screwing things up for my kid, are a perfect storm for stress for me.
Later, M and I went on a very pleasant walk, just the two of us (we snuck out with a couple of fudge bars that the kids didn't know I'd bought yet).
When we got back, C and H were engaged in a friendly game of Magic. It took two or three hours to finish (C won).
Because of the Magic game, H, S, and I got a late start on our evening walk (though, I did get a lot of cleaning done in the kitchen while waiting). There was a lot of Pokémon talk on the walk. By the time we got home, S wanted to continue talking about it, so she followed me out to the backyard since I still needed to clean up the horse yard, feed the horses, and put them up for the night.
It was a fun conversation, but at the end I stumbled onto a touchy area about Mega-evolutions. S ended up ranting about how Flygon deserved a Mega-evolution, but never got one due to artist block affecting the creator.
This rant continued part way into the exercises the kids and I have been doing most every night for about the last month (S has her conditional blackbelt testing coming up and she's worried about passing the fitness part, so we've all been working out to help and encourage her - plus extra excersize for the rest of us isn't a bad thing). By the end of the exercises S was feeling better enough to challenge C to a game of Magic.
C won that game, too. It was an unusually short game for those two. While they played, I layed on the futon nearby and watched an episode of Rules of Engagement and a partial episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Later, M and I went on a very pleasant walk, just the two of us (we snuck out with a couple of fudge bars that the kids didn't know I'd bought yet).
When we got back, C and H were engaged in a friendly game of Magic. It took two or three hours to finish (C won).
Because of the Magic game, H, S, and I got a late start on our evening walk (though, I did get a lot of cleaning done in the kitchen while waiting). There was a lot of Pokémon talk on the walk. By the time we got home, S wanted to continue talking about it, so she followed me out to the backyard since I still needed to clean up the horse yard, feed the horses, and put them up for the night.
It was a fun conversation, but at the end I stumbled onto a touchy area about Mega-evolutions. S ended up ranting about how Flygon deserved a Mega-evolution, but never got one due to artist block affecting the creator.
This rant continued part way into the exercises the kids and I have been doing most every night for about the last month (S has her conditional blackbelt testing coming up and she's worried about passing the fitness part, so we've all been working out to help and encourage her - plus extra excersize for the rest of us isn't a bad thing). By the end of the exercises S was feeling better enough to challenge C to a game of Magic.
C won that game, too. It was an unusually short game for those two. While they played, I layed on the futon nearby and watched an episode of Rules of Engagement and a partial episode of How I Met Your Mother.
