There’s a lot to cover today, including the start of our
Christmas holidays; Ethan’s and Ehlana’s unofficial graduation from high
school; parties; sleepovers; and the weather.
Our class Christmas parties and imminent break from school
were the top stories at school; while the bad-weather forecast had the
attention of most adults in the area.
Unlike last week, when I didn’t want to jinx anything that might mess
with our holiday fun; I’m hoping for lots of snow so that we can both have a
white Christmas and some winter outdoor fun opportunities for sledding and
maybe even snowboarding again if we could get a chance to do that too. The extra work won’t be very exciting if we
do get everything they’re calling for, but at least this was going to be a work
weekend anyway; and most of the work is going to be indoors and unaffected by
how much snow we get.
There are lots of archive records being made for Ethan and
Ehlana, including their own journals; so I don’t write about things like their
education in my journal very often.
Graduating from high school is worth noting, though; and they are very
happy and excited about getting to move on to college-level studies in January. While their ‘normal’ education and Magi
training progress is recorded in great detail; I’d like to take a few moments
to write about some differences between what they’re doing compared to my own
early education.
From the education side of things, their studies until now
have been very similar to mine; but that’s going to change with their college
courses. Mom needed to keep me busy when
we were on our own, and I didn’t have specific goals; so my college studies
were very broad-based. Ethan and Ehlana
are going to have very focused curriculum now.
Ehlana is going to focus on bio-engineering and genetics, and while
Ethan will take enough science to be able to work with Ehlana in the lab; he’s
going to concentrate on history, literature, and library management. They’ll still have a long way to go with
their education after the lab opens next September; but Ehlana will be ready to
take the research she and Uncle Adam only really get to play with now and run
with it; while Ethan will learn as he goes – and while our Magi archives are
all brought home over the next five years or so.
They’ll also need to focus more on Healing than I did in the
early years for their Magi training too.
Ehlana will need that knowledge in the lab more than Ethan will; but as
with nearly everything related to their Magi gifts; they are stronger and can
do more working together. Since that’s
going to be fairly important in our collective future; I’m all for helping them
with whatever they need. Mom sometimes
feels that the twins are working harder than they should, and maybe they are;
but I also understand just how much they need to learn to be ready for certain
parts of our future – just as I do. I’m
not going to get into any of that, but you can be sure that we will be ready.
In the much more imminent future, we’ll also be ready for a
snowstorm if it does hit us tomorrow; and the work to get ready for Christmas
is still on-track even with the extra work we were doing today to get ready for
the bad weather. That work got in the
way of any boyfriend time for Rowen and me because Michael and Tim were as busy
as we were right from the time we were set free early from school. All four of us were put to work helping our
parents, and for me that included everything from helping Dad with firewood and
the generator to keeping an eye on Ethan and Ehlana.
The holiday pre-cooking party was at Uncle Adam and Aunt
Leanne’s house; so we headed over there in time to help out with making dinner
while getting started on the extra cooking and baking too. Rowen met up with me there once she’d
finished helping to get her house storm-ready; and we mostly helped with the
cooking and baking too while Grandma and Grandpa were the primary babysitters
tonight.
I don’t really have a lot to write about for those hours of
cooking. We had fun, but there isn’t
really anything newsworthy. Rowen and I
did a lot of running around that included hauling pans of food to our house and
Uncle Mark and Aunt Grace’s so we could use the extra ovens and freezer
space. We worked until after eleven; and
that helped out with our sleepover because that didn’t leave Patrick and Scott
much time to be annoying around us – especially when they had orders not to
keep Rowen’s parents awake when they needed to be at the store early for the
last big shopping weekend before Christmas.
While we didn’t get to start our holidays having fun with
Michael and Tim today, we had computer chats with both of them after getting
changed and into bed. No, we didn’t use
video chat; though Tim did ask if we would after finding out that we were in
night clothes and probably had his imagination running in overdrive. Michael may have had some thoughts along the
same lines, but he didn’t include them in the text messages; and I’m also sure
that he’d know that Rowen and I wouldn’t be wearing anything too revealing –
especially with Patrick and Scott in the house; not to mention that it’s winter
and being warm and comfortable is a fairly high priority.
Rowen and I have been chatting for a while now since ending
the computer time with the boys; and we really should get some sleep now. Whether we get hit with a bunch of freezing
rain and snow tomorrow, we both have a lot of work to do; and we also each
tentatively have movie plans with our boyfriends – at Tim’s house for Rowen and
mine for Michael and me. We don’t want
to be too tired for that if we can make those plans happen; so I’m going to
wrap this up and try to get some sleep now.
I’ll also guess that those thoughts won’t have me dreaming of sugar
plums tonight! Let’s head off to
dreamland and find out!
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
