The top news story in Witch Falls
tonight is the birth of Kendra Eleanor Byrd at seven-twenty. She is Grandma Eleanor’s newest
great-grandchild; and both mother and baby are doing fine as of the last report
Uncle Adam sent to us. Ethan, Ehlana,
and I are all looking forward to meeting Kendra soon, and that’s entirely
because she is going to be involved in our future plans.
I’d add more about that, but don’t want to spoil the
surprise for anyone who might read this before she’s grown up and ready to take
her place in that future.
While the Byrd family has had an exciting day; mine was
fairly quiet by comparison. We were able
to exercise by the river this morning, and then Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana all
needed to get ready to go out early because Mom was working the morning shift
at KidZone. Including today, it looks
like she’ll be covering Tuesday mornings for four weeks; and then other
volunteers will take over once school’s out.
There wasn’t much going on at school today. The senior class trip is old news now, and
while there was some holiday weekend chat; that hasn’t kicked into high gear
yet. Tim was busy with Nora after
school, but Rowen invited Michael and Rebecca to do homework with us and then
go for another canoe ride; and they both wanted to do that. We had a snack and did our work at the patio
table on the back porch, and none of us could say no when Ethan and Ehlana
wanted to go canoeing with us; so we had two passengers when we pushed the two
canoes away from the dock.
I was going to add that Rowen and I switched play and work
days again, but I think she’s decided that we’re going to be taking Monday and
Tuesday nights off on a permanent basis.
As long as we stay out of the tweeird zone; I don’t really mind the
change. We certainly had fun with
Rebecca and Michael today, and I really love it that Rebecca wants to do things
like that with us again. It won’t be
long before she’ll be a high school student, and we may be left behind again
for another year.
We paddled upriver for forty-five minutes; paddled back; and
then had drinks and a little visit with Mom before Michael, Rebecca, and Rowen
all needed to leave. Mom put me to work
helping her with dinner, and other than a trip to the park so that Ethan and
Ehlana could have some playground time; we mostly had a quiet night at home
after that.
Mom did separate Magi lessons – the first with Ethan and
Ehlana; and one with me after they went to bed.
While she was busy with them, I put in a little time on the family
business; and that gave Dad and I a little father-daughter time while we both
worked in the office. It was straight up
to bed after my lesson, and I’ve been studying for most of the nearly three
hours since then.
With Aunt Deborah off, it’s a bit harder for Uncle Adam to
deal with overnight patients, but tonight he’s getting some relief from Grandma
Eleanor and Grandpa Grant. They’re
staying at the clinic with Kendra and her parents, Anne and Robert; and letting
Uncle Adam sleep for a handful of hours before he’ll need to be back there and
working again. Mom and I are always on
call too, but only the Magi council and a handful of others know anything about
that; and we don’t expect to be needed tonight.
Thinking about that is reminding me that I’m ready to get
some sleep too. It’s been a long day,
and I’ll have more of the same again tomorrow – except without the play time;
so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
