This has mostly been a recovery day to recover from our New
Year fun. I’ve done some work too,
including some chores around the house for Mom; another round of snow shoveling
first thing this morning with Dad and Michael at our house and with Michael and
Jake at their place; and a half-hour or so of family business work that needed
to get done today. I had the work done
by lunchtime; and then Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I got together for a play
afternoon.
Before getting to that, and while I’m thinking about Rowen;
her father is particularly excited today because they’ve officially taken over
the old Witch Falls Electric and Light store behind their computer store as of
yesterday. The renovations won’t start
until next week; but he was already in there playing around and visualizing
what his new data center is going to look like in just a couple of months. I know that Rowen’s Mom is a bit nervous
about the financing they’re doing while getting this new business up and
running, but Mom will make sure that their data center is a success; and she
doesn’t actually have anything to worry about – we just can’t tell her
why. Rowen’s glad that her father is so
happy; but isn’t sure whether she’s going to like the extra work he may have her
do to help out. She likely has visions
of scrubbing and cleaning; but I think it’s more likely that she’ll get to help
out with building the servers and wiring the networks; so she probably doesn’t
have any more to worry about that than her mother does for the finances.
Moving along, Mom, Ethan, Ehlana, and I had lunch together
before I went to meet up with Michael, Rowen, and Tim – in that order. Mom vetoed the suggestion for taking Ethan
and Ehlana with us for some tobogganing because of how cold it has been today,
and judging by how light the kid traffic was on the usual sledding hills along
the ridge; she wasn’t the only parent keeping younger kids indoors today. Ethan and Ehlana were disappointed, but it
really was cold out; and we only ended up playing on our sleds for about an
hour before deciding to come back to my house for hot drinks, a snack, and some
video game play that the twins could join us for.
We hung out in the lounge for a couple of hours, and then
Rowen and Tim headed out when it was time for Michael and me to help Mom with
making dinner for eight. We were having
Grandma and Grandpa over for dinner so that we could spend a couple of hours
with them before they leave on their trip; and they’ll be doing another meal
with Uncle Adam, Aunt Leanne, and Zack tomorrow night.
Since we’d been having big, special meals for the past two
days; our meal tonight was just spaghetti with salad and garlic bread
sides. That didn’t really take very long
to make, and we had everything ready by the time Dad got home – shortly after
Grandma and Grandpa joined us. While
travel talk was at the top of the chat list tonight; we covered everything from
winter house checks to school, work, and fun plans for the next couple of
months around here while Grandma and Grandpa are away.
Ethan and Ehlana were put in charge of entertaining our
grandparents while Mom, Dad, Michael, and I cleaned up from dinner; and then we
continued the chat time for another hour after dinner before Grandma and
Grandpa headed home again. Michael and I
had some play time after that with Ethan and Ehlana that included a group Magi
lesson with Mom while Dad got to work in the office. There was enough time after our lesson for a
bit more video gaming with Ehlana and me up against Michael and Ethan; and we
did that until it was time to get the twins ready for bed. Michael and I helped out with that; we did
the snack and bedtime story in the office with Mom and Dad; and then Michael
and I tucked Ethan and Ehlana in for the night before coming back up to the
lounge so that we could not watch the end of another football game tonight –
the Sugar Bowl between Alabama and Oklahoma.
I’ll skip over the details of our play time, and again be
grateful for my photographic memory; but did want to mention that I finally got
around to sharing that little holiday surprise I’d picked up just for Michael
and me – and that might have had a lot to do with why Michael wasn’t very
interested in watching the game.
‘Little’ is definitely accurate, as is lacy, sheer, sexy, and hot. For the parents out there reading this in the
future, try to remember that I’m a twelve-year old (almost thirteen) with a
doctorate-level education; and I can assure you that Michael doesn’t have a
problem with how I feel about intimacy with my boyfriend. I’ve also mentioned before that we have
already discussed certain boundaries too; and being Magi-trained gives us the
discipline to stay within those limits.
You trust your Magi kids with keeping that huge little secret and follow
all of the rules – compared to that; it should be easy for you to trust us to
make our own decisions about sex.
Michael didn’t head home until shortly after eleven-thirty;
and we had a quick chat with Mom and Dad as they were packing up from their
work evening in the office. I hopped
into my Jacuzzi after getting back up to my room; and have been multi-tasking
my nightly computing while soaking in the tub.
That was an option because Mom was going with a bedtime Jacuzzi session
too; but let’s not think about what she and Dad might be doing one floor below
me – or if you are going to use your imagination for that; don’t tell me about
it whenever you do read this in my future.
While I’m still taking a break from my language and archive
studies, I did some family business work tonight; took the time for the full
news, sports, and entertainment check; and only needed a minute for email
thanks to a near-empty inbox. There
isn’t really anything newsworthy to write about from any of that, and I guess
that’s really pretty much all the news I have for today; so it’s time to wrap
this up and for me to get out of the tub and ready for bed. We mostly have another play day tomorrow, and
while we didn’t make any definite plans for the day, we’re having dinner at
Tim’s house and spending the evening there; and then I’m doing a sleepover at
Rowen’s house. After lots of family
gatherings, we’re not doing the dinner and a movie night tomorrow, but Mom,
Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana don’t have decided what they’re doing yet. If the twins do sleepovers too, Mom and Dad
could either end up with a kid-free night or four toddlers at our house.
I’ll pick option two for that because Mom probably won’t let
Liz or Hannah take on extra kids overnight when they’ll still be busy at the
salon and bakery during the last weekend of the Christmas break. I’d suggest that Rowen and I should do our
sleepover at my house too so we can help out, but we’re overdue for one at her
place; and Patricia mentioned that to us yesterday so we better stick with the
current plan.
Okay, that really is it, and I’m ready to crash and nap
soon, so...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
