Having the kids back in school again might be the top news
story among students and parents, but the most important event in Witch Falls
happened when Sharon Palmer officially joined the family business this morning;
and started working with Mom to learn everything about her new, multi-billion
dollar investment portfolio. Sometime
within the next two or three months, she’ll take over most of the banking,
financial, and insurance industry interests we own; along with a few related businesses. I’m sure that even if you’re reading this in
the distant future, you’ll know that the whole banking and insurance industry
didn’t exactly have a rosy reputation for the past four or five years, but you
can be sure that our companies are the exceptions; or we wouldn’t own them.
While things weren’t nearly that important or exciting at
school today, it was still a really good day.
My morning started out great too, starting with Tai Chi, breakfast, a
little dress-up and hair time with Mom and Ehlana, and a ride to school for
Rowen and me from Dad so I didn’t have to try carrying two saxophones and the
rest of my usual gear. Holiday
news dominated the school grapevine all day, and kept everyone entertained as
well as informed. The boys, of course,
were also talking football all day too, with both the pro and college games on
the weekend topping their chat interests.
As far as I’m concerned, the only good news there is that college
football will be done after tonight; and, sort of like groundhog day, that
means four weeks left in the NFL post-season before football gets shelved until
next summer.
The best time of the day for Rowen and me was getting to
play our new flute and saxophone in music class. Michael and I were both teased about having matching
saxophones, with a few new lines related to what could happen if we get them
mixed up and use the wrong one. Since
Michael and Lisa seem to have ‘officially’ joined the couples club now, you can
guess that Lisa wasn’t at all amused by any of the sax jokes directed at us,
but there wasn’t much that either Michael or I could do about it once a few of
our classmates got on a roll. The only
thing that saved us a bit was having that class near the end of the day instead
of the beginning. By tomorrow, there
will be other targets and jokes.
The fun for Rowen and I continued after school. We had another warm day – warm for winter –
and after finishing our homework; we took Ethan and Ehlana to the park to
play. Ethan was happy to find out that
the warm weather also meant that the guys were playing football too, and
Michael was there to help him get one more football moment before Rowen,
Ehlana, and I were able to escape the testosterone zone and split the rest of
our time between the playground and a walk by the river. There were a lot of kids and teens hanging
out at the park today, and we spent nearly as much time chatting as playing
before it was time to get home again – or to the computer store for Rowen.
Mom had another New Year change to announce tonight, and
that was the end to our weekly healing lessons with Uncle Adam. After two years, they’d decided that he could
continue his training on his own, and just get help from Mom whenever he needed
it. My healing lessons will continue,
but probably won’t be on a specific night anymore. Since Mom was going to be spending a lot of
time with Sharon Palmer, and Aunt Leanne was busy with the real estate end of
our future plans, they didn’t have a meeting tonight either, and it seemed
really quiet around here without any company.
We did have Magi lessons tonight – elements for Ethan and
Ehlana, and transmutation for me. I was
in bed shortly after Ethan and Ehlana were tucked in, and thanks to another
time-phase, I’m finished my work for the night; and it isn’t even eleven
o’clock yet! The only news from my work
tonight is that I started learning the Polynesian-Malayo languages; and that
should keep me busy through to the end of the school year in June. If I’m going to really find out whether using
the time-phase helps or not, I’ll need to get to sleep soon, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
