The day after Homecoming

Yesterday was Homecoming.  Today is the day after.  One makes me happy.  One does not.

Robert attended Homecoming with his current "girlfriend".  I use the term in quotes because they don't really get to spend much time together, but generally speaking they are identified as a couple.  Anyway, the young lady had a family wedding to attend in the afternoon so Robert attended with her.  They ate dinner there, then the young lady's parents chaperoned the dance and brought Robert home afterwards.  Being a guy, he had a sport coat and nice clothes, so we purchased nothing new.  That's the way I like it.

Catherine attended with a young man who is also a student of Andrew.  They apparently are also boyfriend/girlfriend, but I'm not quite identifying them that way yet.  This young man lives with his grandparents, and they brought him over later afternoon.  The two exchanged flowers here and we took some pictures.  The grandparents then drove them to dinner and the dance, and we did the late night return.

Thomas did his best to stay awake until the older siblings were home.  He was awake when Robert got home, but sound asleep by the time Catherine and Andrew arrived about 25 minutes later.  He had been so excited and especially wanted to hear about his sister's evening, but it was just too late.  After he went to bed, the four of us sat around and discussed the evening.  Everyone had a nice evening, although as you might expect with a high school dance there was some drama.  Some of it involved friends of Robert's date, and some involved Catherine herself.  We discussed it all, and I was a little amused at Robert's take on things that happened with Catherine.  It was nice to see him care so much about how things went with her.

Today is another story...although it is coming around.  This morning, everyone is tired and we decided to stay home from church so people could sleep.  There was plenty of snarkiness and passive aggressive tattling.  Andrew made some waffles, and again we had the opportunity to do breakfast instead of dinner (Robert works a double shift today).  The temps have also dropped, and right at this moment, I'm feeling so grateful for this life!