The Journals


July 2nd 2009

Good morning, I think.

I will never be able to live down Tamaki's burn that he got yesterday. I thought Chiyo was going to hit me with the hair dryer when we got back to the hotel. Not that I'd blame her if she really had. My son burns faster than I ever have, I swear I blinked and he went from being as pale as me, to as red as a stop sign. He did have sun block on, I watched him put it on.

He's in the hotel bed with a wet towel on his back now. Chiyo isn't mad at me anymore, thank goodness, she's just mad that it happened.

Tamaki is really dreading the train ride home, I'm letting proper manors slide so he can lean as far forward as he possibly can. Chiyo has said she will fix him a cold bath when we get home but I think I'll do that for him instead, there may only be three months to go before the new baby gets here but Chiyo looks like she could give birth any day now.

It's hard to believe that soon our family will have grown by one more member. I hope things go better for this delivery than the one for Tamaki, for Chiyo's sake if not my own. I don't want relive a night like that ever again.

We are about to leave for the train now, so I shall write again when we get back in Sendai.

You know I really wish I could truly say it's nice to be home, but it's not so much when you come home to a power outage. Apparently it has been out since this morning, Satsuki and mother have been calling the power company regularly and they keep changing the time. Father say's that they are fixing a few older power poles, updating them to current standers. I can understand all this but we all agree they could have at least had the decency to let the neighborhoods this would affect know about it.

Luckily we had enough hot water in our new water heater to fix Tamaki a cool bath without giving him a cold. Also since it was his turn to pick dinner tonight we will be having pizza. I'm not a huge fan of pizza, still I will eat it since Tamaki is burned for my lack of keeping my eye on him.

Satsuki's fiancé will be joining us tonight for dinner. I must say that Daiki comes across as a very nice young man, always trying to be honest and nice to my little sister. The best part about this match is that they already knew each other from high school and they generally like one another. I just hope he doesn't go looking in my closet anytime soon, I'd like to keep Korin a secret from all my in-laws as long as I possibly can.

Not to mention keeping it as far away from my son as possibly. I already have nightmares that he will have to inherit it after I'm gone.

I need to push that thought out of my head.

Ah I've just been told the power is finally back on. It only took them several hours. Well it is my turn to fix lunch, so I'll see if the sandwich meat kept in the fridge, if not then we are going out.

Three hours later I'm happy to say that lunch was wonderful. The sandwich meat did keep so we had a small picnic out in the garden. Tamaki stayed under the large maple tree so the sun didn't touch him for his burn to get worse. Grandmother was feeling well enough today to join us, I'm glad she's doing a little better after Grandfather's death. I miss him and I really wish Haruki could have had time to get some more memories of him.

Grandmother was telling Tamaki about our great ancestor, Date Masamune, and how he founded Sendai. During the story mother had mentioned how Yayoi had suggested I take my hair style after him. Tamaki asked if he should do the same to honor his ancestor and we told him that he could if he wanted to, but he has to remember Masamune lost his eye and it wasn't an early fashion statement. Now Tamaki wants an eyepatch. I'd ask Rajura to sit Tamaki down and tell him that having one eye isn't fun, but I dread Rajura would encourage this.

Now Chiyo and I are going to go over a few things we still need to get for the baby. After that I'm helping my parents clean house so things are ready for dinner with Daiki this evening. So I shall continue this tomorrow.

Goodnight.