Busy Bodies
Friday, November 17, 2006
November 17th brought a great pink sunrise from the west.
Everyone was busy that day.
Judah had just brought back Evangeline from the surgeon where she had her wisdom teeth pulled.
Ivy was carting around her two nephews and niece for the day, buying Thanksgiving supplies and a huge turkey for the Sunday Thanksgiving dinner, cleaning the house for Megan who was returning from Rolla to help out Ivy and Nicodemus with the other youth leaders at the pre-lock-in activities for the junior high that night.
Rose was working at the office, babysitting Hansel and Gretel in the evening, and meeting the youth back at the church to work the midnight shift till eight the next morning as chaperon before leaving shortly later to join the rest of the choir at a rehearsal with Mr. Mather and the orchestra at the community college.
Joe, Wallace, Curly, Izzy, Frances, and Chester were going to accompany the youth to a great trampoline house in Chesterfield followed by ice cream at Denny’s and then Frances would return home at midnight to get up the next morning and help with Scouting for Food.
OLeif had a mound of computer things to do.
Carrie-Bri, who was again at work that evening, was studying madly for two last history CLEPs, in the hopes of passing both the next morning on her birthday before heading to work yet again. She was still insisting that she wouldn’t open her birthday cards until Christmas.
And Mom was attending the parents’ graduation meeting with Joe’s ceremony looming in the spring. So it was going to just be Dad and Linnea home to have dinner and to watch Cars while everyone else ran around.
Meanwhile, word on the street was that Dad had just purchased a pair of new yellow track shoes. Collette wondered if they were the same kind he had back in high school. The same pair of yellow track shoes that were stolen from him. At first, Dad had accused Mr. Moon of taking them. No one else had a pair like it in the entire school, except for Mr. Moon, which he found out later. But then Dad discovered the real culprit, and couldn’t prove it was him. Thus Dad had lost his prized yellow track shoes.
Back home, there was leftover fish and rice while OLeif prepared to get his computer projects started.