Aunt Leanne has had her first really bad morning sickness
day, and while she wasn’t particularly interested in sharing the experience
with her nieces and nephew; she was grateful for the support from Mom, Dad,
Claire, and some of her friends.
Mom was there for her off and on all day, and dropped Ethan
and Ehlana off at the daycare so she could do that. Other than some after school hugs, I let Mom
take care of her, and helped out by taking care of Ethan and Ehlana; and
helping out with cooking enough food so we could deliver dinner for two to
Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne too. Claire
took care of the work Aunt Leanne had needed to get done at the office, and Mom
had several helper bees so that she still managed to get nearly everything taken
care of that was on her own to-do list for the day. Uncle Adam took over after work, and Mom
spent some time working ahead in the office in case Aunt Leanne needs her again
tomorrow.
While that was the top story for our family, our
snowboarding trip made the top-five list on the school gossip network. Tim was responsible for sharing a few stories
about how good Rowen and I were at snowboarding, and he even grudgingly
conceded that we were better than he and Michael were. Michael, Lisa, and Nora didn’t say much about
us; though Michael did confirm Tim’s assertions to some of the disbelievers
among the other guys in our class. Rowen
had a good day, and was smiling nearly all of the time as she again found herself
being really noticed by guys in ‘that’ kind of way for the first time. Yes, I had some attention directed my way,
but my reaction to that hasn’t changed since Saturday, and while I’m really
glad that Rowen had fun with it; all of those boys currently have girlfriends,
and some of those girls were not impressed.
All of that should have added up to a tweeird zone day, but
Rowen’s excitement and happiness was infectious for me; and we just had fun
with the whole thing and let our fellow students provide us with hours of free
entertainment. There was some actual
classwork going on today too; including one test, and one major project that
most of us handed in on time. The
countdown to March Break is on for both the teachers and students now; though
only one side is thinking of that in terms of how much of their lessons plans
still need to be covered in the now-nine school days left until the break.
I’ve already mentioned that Rowen and I took care of Ethan
and Ehlana after school while Mom was busy with Aunt Leanne. It’s been warmer today, but we’ve had some
rain too; so we stayed indoors while entertaining my brother and sister. We started out with getting our homework out
of the way; had a music practice that included some Magi-powered, toddler
musical instrument playing; watched a bit of television; and had a long
telepathic chat.
Dad came home a bit early, and we pitched in to make dinner
together. The bonus dinner-for-two was
so that Aunt Leanne wouldn’t have to smell anything cooking at their
house. When everything was ready, Rowen
and I made the delivery before she went home from there; and Mom and I only
stayed long enough to help Uncle Adam get the table set up before heading back
to our place to have our own meal with Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana.
Since Mom and Dad both wanted to get work done in the office
tonight, we skipped the usual Monday night Magi lessons, and I had Ethan and
Ehlana in my room and the lounge again pretty much through until it was time
for them to go to bed. We talked a bit
about our future plans, and even took a little look to see if there was
anything new or different that hadn’t been revealed to us so far. It’s a bit mind-boggling to think of all of
the choices that go into shaping the future.
I won’t start writing a sermon about that, but seeing what
we do about our future leaves Ethan, Ehlana, and I in awe of a plan that’s
always pretty much on track despite human frailties and free will affecting
those uncountable choices and decisions – whether they’re earth-shaking or
miniscule.
You’re wondering if we did see anything new or different.
Yes. ;^)
If you’re reading this far enough into my future; you may
even know about some of those things in your present; but we won’t be writing
about anything in our journals that we haven’t told Mom, Dad, and the others in
our future plans group first. Keep
reading; there will be an update on those plans coming soon.
We had some play time to go along with the more serious
moments of our evening; including some iPad fun, another little music practice,
and Ehlana did an experiment with her science lab that Ethan and I helped her
with. Mom and Dad did the bedtime story
and snack with us – or more accurately; we took that part of their bedtime
routine to them in the office. After
doing that and helping to tuck my brother and sister in for the night, I came
back up to my room; got changed; cuddled in bed with Mandy; and got started on
my studies and usual nightly computing.
It’s now after one, and I’m pretty much done – in more ways
than one. (Sorry, one of my language books tonight was all, fairly bad
poetry.) Tomorrow is an after-school
work day, but I’ll change that up or work later if Aunt Leanne is still feeling
sick. We have more tests coming up this
week at school, but I don’t exactly need to worry about them – my biggest
problem is keeping up the ‘normal’ act when half of my classmates are stressed
out. Anyway, it’s time for me to spend a
little time in dreamland, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
