The big news at school today is that Amy White and Jared Spencer got engaged on the weekend. Amy – Miss White – looked so happy today; and I was really glad that Jared finally got around to asking her to marry him. Rowen and I had our chance to congratulate Miss White at lunch time; though nearly everyone at school wanted to spend some time with her, so we only had a minute to admire her ring and share a couple of hugs.
Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana had heard about the engagement by the time Rowen and I got home from school, but that was still the top story during our snack and chat time. After that break, homework was next on the list, and then Rowen and I took Ethan and Ehlana out for a walk to the park while Mom worked on dinner. Rebecca and Jenny were there with some of their friends – apparently to watch some of the boys play football. The twins actually managed to distract them from boy-watching for about ten minutes, and then we let them get back to that while we played on the swings and at the fort with Ethan and Ehlana.
Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne came over for dinner, and after helping with the cleanup, Uncle Adam and I spent an hour or so working on our Magi research project. I’d spent a little time working on that before and after church, and we started by discussing what I’d found out about each person. The Carter family (Carter Construction, not the Ridge River Ranch Carters) is turning out to be an interesting case for us. Mrs. Carter, Ellen, is one of Eleanor Byrd’s grandchildren. She’s a Magi, and so is their three-year old son, William; so it’s a bit surprising to find out that her baby not only is not a Magi, but only a moderate latent. Mr. Carter is a weak latent, but that doesn’t really explain such a disparity in Magi potential with their children.
We decided to start archive files for each person in town, and Uncle Adam will take care of those records for us. My next job is to come up with some kind of a power scale that we can use in our assessments for the Magi and Latent groups. There is a ‘normal’ range too, though we probably won’t have time to research that for a long time; and I’m not sure whether that normal range means anything beyond an indication of each person’s abilities.
Mom and Aunt Leanne were busy with Ethan and Ehlana while we were doing that, and then Mom joined us for a healing lesson. She had a surprise for us tonight – a guest patient! I’ll refer you to her archive for the personal details, but Uncle Adam and I each helped heal one of the senior members of the Magi Council; and Mom advised us that we’d be getting to do this with and for other Magi. It’s too bad that we can’t do that for everyone, but this is still going to be amazing!
I wrapped up the evening with a little family business work in the office after Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne went home. Mom, Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana were in the office then too, and we combined work, snacks, nursing, and the telepathic bedtime story so that we had all of that done by shortly after ten o’clock. There’s always more work that I could do, but it’s been a long enough day, and my Jacuzzi is calling to me!
