Happy 12th birthday, Kris!
Kris has the distinction of being the last twelfth birthday
in our class, since Gil will be the first ‘teenager’ in Grade Seven this year
when he turns thirteen in April.
Being the youngest didn’t keep Kris from being among the
first to cross over, and he’s already been a member of the couples club with
more than one girlfriend. His current
girlfriend is also one of Lisa’s best friends, so Rowen and I weren’t surprised
to not be invited to his birthday party.
Considering how things went at school yesterday and today, that was
probably a good thing for everyone – including Kris.
Why is he included in that?
Because he liked the birthday gift that Rowen and I left on his desk
this morning a bit too much. It’s never
been a problem when I know the girls in my class well enough to pick out gifts
for them, but it’s now apparently a bad thing for me to know anything about the
guys. I’d have thought that everyone who
knows Kris would know he’s into classic (comparatively) video games, and it
didn’t seem like that big of a deal to track down one of the games we’d heard
him talking about wanting to get.
Somehow, Rowen managed to escape any implication in that
tween drama even though she was an equal partner in the gift-giving; and she
thought the whole thing was very funny too.
While she was happily entertained, I know had both Lisa and Kris’
girlfriend mad at me. That helped me
answer the question I went to sleep thinking about, and I’ve decided that I’m tired
of letting the tween drama bug me so much.
I think it’s time to stop letting all of that tweeird keep me from
having fun and just being myself. It
feels better deciding that, but I’m sure there will be more tween trouble for
me because of that choice.
Really having fun with Rowen and Michael during our
lunchtime music practice was my first chance to test out that change in
attitude. The sight of the three of us
laughing, smiling, and walking together when we went to our first afternoon
class had the expected impact on Lisa and her friends, and though I’m sorry
that she’s upset, I didn’t really find it that hard to not let it bother me or
get in the way of having fun for the rest of the day.
Changing how I deal with my personal tween drama doesn’t mean
that I stopped seeing and hearing everything, and the empathic vibes were very
strong all afternoon too, so I was really glad to go home after school; hide in
the office; and immerse myself in family business work until dinnertime. Mom and Alicia worked and took care of Ethan
and Ehlana while I was busy, and Alicia stayed and had dinner with us before
going home for the night when Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne stopped in for a
family business and future plans meeting with us.
I’ve been so busy with other things that I haven’t really
been thinking about how close we’re getting to the start of the next big phase
of our future plans. The groundbreaking
for the lab is just five weeks away now, and construction on the first new
houses to be built in Witch
Falls in years will be
starting too – including the one we’re building for Aunt Grace and Mark. Aunt Leanne expects to have homes sold to the
Seagers and Drapers soon, and if that all works out; they’ll be the first three
families living in the new part of town.
Ehlana and Ethan are especially excited about the lab
project actually getting started soon. Ehlana
can hardly wait to be able to do research in the lab; and Ethan is looking
forward to having our entire physical Magi archive here in Witch Falls. Mom’s going to start working on that more
with Grandpa Grant and Grandma Eleanor, and they’ll be doing a lot of traveling
over the next five years to help us bring all of those books home.
Pretty much everything else we have going on with our future
plans for the rest of this year is on-track, and once the construction gets
started, we’ll focus on a few other things – like helping out some of our
favorite teens as they get ready to go off to college this summer. There could be some matchmaking to do this year
too, but since Aunt Leanne spent a little time teasing me about Michael
tonight, I’ll leave that update for another time.
Our little meeting lasted until after nine. Mom and I did a Magi lesson as part of the
bedtime routine for Ethan and Ehlana after Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne went
home, but it was still going on eleven by the time I came up to my room and got
started on my studies and nightly computing.
It’s now three and a half hours later, and I’m ready to crash, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
