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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Cassie's Journal - February 9, 2013



Kids should get to have weekend birthdays every year!

Starting the day out with another big breakfast was great, and then getting to skip the usual Saturday morning chores kept the good times rolling.

We didn’t have spring-like weather today, but there wasn’t any rain, and it was still warm enough for biking and spending most of the day outdoors.  Rowen and I really decided to get away; packed a lunch; and started biking out along River Road.  We biked far past the whirlpool, but eventually returned there to sit and have our lunch before returning to Witch Falls.

That gave us lots of alone time to talk, and Violet’s breakfast dance report was high on the list for us.  We weren’t surprised to find out that both Rebecca and Stephanie had heard about everything at school, and they’d already known that Michael was going to give me a gift.  Violet had some ‘inside information’ on that, and since Stephanie was keeping an eye on Michael at the dance; she also knew how at least the dance part of the night had gone for him and Lisa.  The good news for both him and me is that roses go a long way to smooth over tween dating trouble; and Lisa apparently decided not to be mad at him anymore by the time they got to the dance.

Rebecca advised them that the word among the younger girls was that my not being there helped too; and though Violet didn’t have the details, Michael spent an hour or so at Lisa’s after the dance before getting home at the same time that Violet and Dillon dropped Jake and Stephanie off after they were finished helping out with the post-dance clean-up.  Violet had news about ‘Tommy’ and his girlfriend too, but Violet didn’t know that news was of any extra significance for Rowen when she passed it on with the rest of her dance recap.  ‘Get a room’, followed sometime later on by ‘but not a school classroom’ should be the only hints you need to know to get the gist of that part of Violet’s recap.  I’m sure you can guess that Rowen wasn’t thrilled, but that was one of the reasons why we didn’t want to be there last night.

There were also stories of apparently successful dates, and two that didn’t go well at all – including one couple from my class.  They did an old-style diner theme for the decorations and set-up that looked cool from the pictures Violet showed us on her phone, and it sounded like Violet, Dillon, Stephanie, and Jake all had a great night.  Since Violet was both tired and smiling non-stop this morning; I’ll guess that both the dance and her alone time with Dillon until whenever she did finally make it upstairs to her room made for one of those best-ever-so-far kind of date nights.

That’s enough tween and teen news for me, so let’s move on.  Our timing for the ride was good, since the traffic was mostly heading into town on our way out; and then outbound by the time we were going west again.  There wasn’t anyone playing on the river today, but there really aren’t that many people interested in canoeing or swimming the Ridge River in February.

Ethan and Ehlana were interested in some park play time this afternoon, so we spent an hour and a half doing that with them after getting back.  Some of our friends were hanging out there too, and we multi-tasked our playground fun with more Valentine’s dance news chat.  Rowen was particularly interested to find out that ‘Tommy’ missed his curfew after staying at his girlfriend’s house about an hour or so too long.  We learned more of the details about the date-gone-bad involving our classmates too; and I’ll guess that will be a couple that may not still be together by Valentine’s Day.  It sounded like the rest of our friends had as much fun as Violet and her friends did; but Rowen and I are still very glad that we weren’t there too.

We all went home for the rest of the afternoon once Ethan and Ehlana decided they’d had enough outdoor action for the day – or it might have been that Ethan didn’t want to hear any more girl talk.  We had a snack break with Mom, Dad, Violet, and Alicia; then played in the lounge until it was time for Rowen to head home.  Rowen and I entertained my brother and sister with a music practice that included both keyboards and saxophone for me while Rowen played along on her flute.  Rowen and Ehlana had fun teasing me a little more about my second-favorite birthday gift, but Ethan was as ready as I was to drop it and move on to anything else.  I really hope that does all blow over by the time we go back to school on Monday; but I’m not holding my breath that it will.

Rowen went home about a half-hour before Mom’s planned dinnertime, and it’s been a quiet evening around here since then.  Violet did a couple of lessons with Mom today, including one while we were at the park.  She had dinner with us, but then got ready to go out after we’d both helped with the clean-up; and was off and running again in time to meet up with Dillon at the Inn before going on to hang out at his house.  Mom and Dad spent a couple of hours playing with Ethan, Ehlana, and me.  ‘Normal’ toddler games are just for show around here when we have company.  Tonight we played with Ethan and Ehlana’s science lab for an hour and a half and solved that whole global warming problem.

Just kidding about the last part of that!

We did have fun, though, and Ehlana continually amazes the rest of us with just how especially brilliant she is when it comes to the sciences.  I won’t be surprised if she does solve global warming some day.

I came up to my room for some Jacuzzi time when Mom and Dad took Ethan and Ehlana up to do bath time with them, but I kept it short enough that I could still do the bedtime snack and story with them.  Mandy and I have been tucked into bed since ten-thirty; I didn’t really do much of my usual nightly computing before getting started on this; and I don’t plan on being awake for very much longer.  We don’t really have anything exciting planned for tomorrow that I need to rest up for, but I’ll be back to normal school night studies again tomorrow; and a little extra down time tonight is looking good right now, so...

...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging out!