Primoday, Bertzia 11th 067.M42
I didn't tell Mum I'd invited Maddy over tonight, because I didn't know until I got to work today and saw that she'd packed an overnight bag if she was even coming over. But I knew that Mum would be cooking more than enough of whatever she'd made for dinner that having an extra body there wouldn't be a problem. I wasn't wrong. She'd made roughly enough grassfowl curry to feed a battalion, plus there was noodles (not Noodles, though she tried to put her fuzzy little nose in), and spice-bread to mop up the gravy. I think she'd intended to leave me with enough to take to work for lunches for the week, or to have for dinners. But still, even with Maddy here there's probably enough for the both of us to eat well for at least two or three days.
I think everything went well. Mum got to talking to Maddy about her family, about helping her own Mum raise her brothers after her dad died, about the administrative work before she won her position in the Adeptus Administratum and how long we'd been… ah… friends for. She actually managed to make it through most of the evening before cornering me in the kitchen while I was washing up to grill me about how long we'd been together, how serious it was, if we'd spoken about having kids yet… I love you Mum, but please. Let me try and make it through at least one month with this girl before we start getting into the talk about our future? Thankfully Dad was a lot more calm. He asked a few questions while she was talking, and when he came in to get a beer while I was washing up, all I got out of him was "Good job". So that's his nod of approval.
And Mei absolutely loved Maddy. I brought her in, introduced her to Mum and Dad. Mei was sitting on the rug in front of the holo, playing with Noodles while she watched the Littlest Guardsman movie (Throne, I remember watching that when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it's the same copy too. I think Mum must have just packed away all of our old kid toys and holopicts for when she finally got to be a Grandma… She's been waiting for this for a while…). She didn't really pay much attention to Maddy when she first came in, she had Noodles chasing one of my bootlaces (all of those toys Maddy paid for, and my bootlaces are just the best toy ever apparently. Not a waste of scrip at all) and that seemed to have most of her attention. So while Mum and I were getting dinner ready - after Mum had chased Maddy out of the kitchen - Maddy went to see if Mei would let her play with Noodles. I don't know exactly how it went down, but by the time we came out of the kitchen to set the table, Maddy was sitting on the floor with Mei on one knee, Noodles on the other and they were having some sort of… Secret conference as far as I could tell.
After that Mei wouldn't let Maddy alone for the rest of the night. Poor Maddy ended up with Mei still on her knee while she tried to eat dinner, trying to eat with one hand and keep a toddler upright and eating her dinner with the other. But she managed really well. She said that when her Dad died, her youngest brother was about Mei's age, so she got used to handling a kid of that age. They both looked happy though. Mei was smiling and giggling and making a general merry mess, and Maddy seemed to be really enjoying watching her and tending to her. And after dinner, while I was doing the dishes (and fending off Mum's aggressive hinting) Maddy helped settle Mei down on the couch, and when Mum and Dad left they were able to pick her up and just carry her out while she was sleeping.
After that, it was just a pretty quiet night. We watched another couple of episodes of DSS, had another brief argument about Sheridan v Sinclair and that's about where we're up to. Maddy's reading some of the newscasts on her dataslate next to me, and I'm updating my journal.
It's been interesting keeping this journal, I haven't ever really done anything like this before. I'm not even really sure why I'm doing it, I guess it's just nice to have a log of some of the interesting and important things that have happened in my life - even if it's only been a few months so far. Maybe if we do have kids, it'll be nice to pull out certain entries too - Here's where I met your Mum, here's where we got married, here's where we found out we were having you…
It's a nice thought. Even if it's not with Maddy, I think it'll be nice to be able to look back on these days and remember them.
Thought for the Day: I think I really hope it will be Maddy. I know it hasn't been long, but she's the most perfect woman I've ever known.
