Heirs of the Magi News Flash!

***Heirs of the Magi News Flash!*** Winter has, for the most part, been mild so far - or awesome for the month that Cassie and Michael spent in summertime-Australia! They are home now and will be working from home for most of the time until Easter. The hometown work will include getting ready for their next trip, but there will be a lot of fun to get in on and share with their favorite people - including their March Break trip to Florida adventure. All of your favorite Magi Masters will continue to work and play while their future plans unfold; so... ...Visit Witch Falls often to keep up with all of their latest stories; and Happy Reading!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Cassie's Journal - March 4, 2013



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!