Today is the second anniversary of the day Rowen and I found
out that we were both Magi. We couldn’t
exactly celebrate the occasion around her parents, Patrick, and Scott; but we
still shared a quiet, happy moment when I woke Rowen up after finishing my Tai
Chi exercise.
It wasn’t long after that when Patrick and Scott started
doing their very best to make up for missing out on bugging Rowen and me last
night, but even their antics couldn’t keep us from having fun; and we were
still fired up as we got ready for church and had breakfast. If I’d had time and opportunity to do it, I
should have made up some memory-videos and pictures of Rowen’s snowboarding;
since the two younger boys refused to believe that she’d been as awesome as I assured
them she had been. We suggested that
they ask Michael, Tim, Lisa, Nora, or some of the other teens who had seen us
on the slopes about it, but I don’t know if they did that or not while we were
at church.
Even with some bonus hair styling fun, we managed to be at
the church early, and had to wait to meet up with Mom, Dad, and the twins. Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam barely made it
before the service started, and I had extra, gentle hugs for Aunt Leanne after
finding out that they were running behind because she’d been dealing with a
tough bout of morning sickness. So far,
that hadn’t been too serious for her; and we were all hoping that her first
trimester would be more like Aunt Deborah’s than Mom’s was with the twins.
Pastor Lewis was doing the sermon today, and though Rowen
and I were in Sunday school with the rest of the kids and teens; we always knew
when one of the Pastors were on a roll because our lessons would be finished
long before the church service ended.
That wasn’t a problem today, since that just gave us extra time to work
on getting everything ready for Easter.
When we were eventually set free, Rowen and I met up with our parents,
Aunt Leanne, and Uncle Adam, and started making plans for the afternoon.
Dad had done all of his job work while I was away, so he was
taking the day off. Aunt Leanne still
wasn’t feeling very good, so she and Mom decided to have lunch together; and
then Uncle Adam was going to take Aunt Leanne home to relax and have a
do-nothing rest of the day. The Emersons
already had lunch plans, but they agreed to some play time with us after that,
and dinner at our house, so by the time we left the church; we had our play day
game plan. I needed to go home with
Rowen first so I could grab my bags and snow gear. She helped me carry everything to my house,
and I had everything put away or in my room by the time Mom and Dad had our
soup and sandwiches lunch ready.
Aunt Leanne really wasn’t feeling well, and barely ate
anything. That was as tough to take as
it had been with Mom, and I even missed having her tease me about Michael when
she couldn’t manage more than a couple of mild zingers while hearing about my
snowboarding adventures. Uncle Adam took
her home as soon as we were finished lunch, and I was drafted to help with the
clean-up. We’d finished that, and had
been taking a break in the living room for a while when Rowen came over again
with her parents, brother, and Scott in tow.
It’s been another nice day, and a bit warmer, so we decided
to start our play afternoon with a trip to the toboggan hill for some sledding
action. There were quite a few parents
out playing with their kids this afternoon, and Ethan and Ehlana loved their
first experience sliding down the hill on sleds with Mom, Dad, Rowen, or
me. Patrick and Scott spent as much time
trying to goad Rowen and I into snowball fights as they did tobogganing; and
had both some of their friends and our classmates willing to help out with that
mission. That was good for them, but not
as good as having our Moms and Dads on our side was for Rowen and me. We played there for nearly an hour and a half
before Ethan and Ehlana were ready to go home, and we were all ready for some
hot drinks and Olde Bakery snacks.
We had our little break in the kitchen, and then went
upstairs to my room and the lounge.
Patrick and Scott talked Dad and Owen into a video game competition that
Ethan went with them to watch while Rowen and I had a music practice in my
room. Mom, Patricia, and Ehlana took
turns trying to play the flute, saxophone, and keyboard with varying success;
and that kept all of us entertained for most of the time we had left before the
parents headed downstairs again to start making dinner.
That next hour was fairly challenging for Rowen and me. Patrick and Scott went into full goof mode
while we were unsupervised; and had a non-stop repertoire of pranks and gags to
throw at us. Ethan and Ehlana were
playing normal toddlers, and that unfortunately included giggling a lot at the
boys’ antics; helping to egg them on to try even harder to bug us. Thankfully, the dinner bell eventually saved
us; and we actually had a reasonably quiet, fun meal together. Rowen and her parents helped out with the
cleanup, and then headed home for the night with Patrick and Scott; though
Scott’s parents would be reclaiming him soon.
It was quiet here on the home front after that. Mom and Dad both worked through a Magi lesson
with Ethan, Ehlana, and me; we watched a little television; did the full bath
and bedtime routine with the twins; and then I was set free to come up to my
room for some Jacuzzi and study time. I
finished my language lessons while I was in the tub, and finished a
comparatively small archive assignment while doing my hair and getting ready
for bed. That just left the usual
nightly computer checks and this journal entry to do after I climbed into bed
with Mandy, so I’m just about ready to call it a night and get some sleep.
We have two weeks – twelve days – to go until March Break,
so we’ll likely be busy at school this week.
Uncle Adam’s birthday is on Thursday, so that should be a fun day; but
I’ve already been advised that we’ll mostly be having a work weekend to make up
for this weekend, and to get ready for March Break too. Compared to the last two days, that doesn’t
sound very exciting, but I’m sure we’ll still manage to have a little fun here
and there too.
That’s all I have for now, and I really do need to get a
little extra rest now, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging
out!
