Mom, my aunts, and their friends had a great weekend; and
Rowen and I are definitely going to need to do things like that when we grow
up!
A Spa visit; some exclusive shopping; amazing meals; and
some beach and pool time were some of the highlights but for major details you
might want to mosey on over to Aunt Leanne’s journal since her version is
probably most graphic and interesting – if you’re not a kid. I’m sure that it was very flattering to get
hit on several times in the land of beautiful people, and the husbands involved
are secure enough to handle that news; but I have no intention of spending any
time thinking or writing about the hotness factor for my Mom, Aunts, or the
other women on the trip.
Most of the weekend stories I’ve heard so far came from Mom
and Miranda because Michael and I got to have both of our families together for
dinner at his house – mostly so that both of our Moms could have that time with
us tonight. I’ll get to that in a
minute; but let’s back up to the early-morning homecoming and go from there.
Mom got home shortly after three, and while Ethan and Ehlana
gave Dad a wake-up call; they’d come to life as soon as she’d gotten close to
town. She was exhausted by then, but we
still had a little snack and drinks break and a micro-update before going up –
or back – to bed for the nap time that was all we had left before we needed to
be up and getting ready for another work and school day. I’m sure that nine out of the ten women who
were on that trip were tired out this morning, but Mom was the exception after
I helped her out with a little Magi-powered pep hug. Yes, she could have self-healed; but it was
more fun my way!
Morning Tai Chi and breakfast were more fun too; and we
traded more weekend stories with Mom whenever we weren’t running around and
taking turns getting ready for the day.
That didn’t keep me from being ready to go early; and I even managed to
meet up with Rowen and her house before we headed to school. Patricia was definitely still tired out from
the long play and travel day; but Owen’s solution for that had just been to
send her back to bed so she could sleep until noon while he worked the store on
his own.
The Super Bowl post-mortem was the hot topic with the guys
today, but the girls were in full Valentine mode now that the big day is a week
from Friday. I’ll skip everything
football-related from today – except to mention that Michael, Tim, and the
other guys had Lucas join their morning weight training group today. He’s arranged for a ride in the mornings, and
from what Michael and Tim told Rowen and me; the extra time he needs to do that
is coming from a combination of getting up early and the time he won’t be
spending on the bus each morning. I’d
comment on that, but since his work ethic really just resembles Michael and me;
let’s not analyze that too closely.
This is going to be my first Valentine’s Day with a
boyfriend, so I don’t want to write anything that I may regret or change my
mind about in a couple of weeks; but even in our little school things get a bit
nutty and occasionally way too serious.
Sure, there’s tween and teen drama year-round; but it seems to go into
hyper-drive in February. I wonder if it
would be as weird if Valentine’s Day was in the summer. Maybe I’ll ask some of my southern hemisphere
chat buddies about that; since it is summertime there. I don’t ever want to be away from home at
Christmastime, but Valentine’s Day in the tropics some day would be fun. I’ll talk to Michael about that sometime in the
future – when we wouldn’t need chaperones to do something like that. ;^)
That went off-track a bit, so let’s get back to the
recap. While the girls and guys were
often off on separate lines of thought and talk; the Valentine’s Day theme began
creeping into the lesson plans now.
That’s a bigger deal for the younger grades, but even math and science
is a little more fun when the assignments have contemporary and seasonal
associations. While I guess that none of
that news from school is exactly earth-shaking; we did have a pretty good day.
Michael, Tim, and Rowen came home with me for our study
session, and after having our snack break with Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana; we were
left on our own to get our homework done while Mom took the twins along and
went over to Michael’s house to mostly visit with Miranda while Jacob worked on
making dinner for everyone. The
highlight of that little blast of fun was when Michael and I had a bit of alone
time between when Tim and Rowen left and when we moved on to his house, but
don’t think we got away with anything because Mom does have the link with me;
and Miranda only needed to look at us to know that we weren’t getting there so
close to dinnertime because we’d been putting in extra study time.
Dad had gotten there first after work, so Miranda only had
time to tease Michael and me for a few minutes before we sat down to eat and
spent nearly an hour mostly talking about the California trip. I haven’t mentioned Barb and Corey yet; so
let’s go there next.
Corey only spent a little time with all of the women while
they were there; and only when they stopped in to collect Barb each morning –
and check out their home. It sounds like
they’re pretty much living their dream now; and their home is very nice. Barb is really doing great with her job
there; and has already been promoted twice since they moved there. Some name-dropping that wasn’t really very
impressive to Mom, Miranda, or most of the other women suggested that Barb and
Corey are starting to move in some fairly elite circles; and they obviously
love all of that too. I’m certainly not
bragging or anything, but you can’t help but be at least a little amused with
all of that when Barb and Corey don’t even know that the richest person they
know is my Mom – not the movers and shakers of Los Angeles or California. Then again, Mom and I don’t even think about
money as having anything to do with why we’re rich – we get all of that from
our new family and friends.
We had that and then some tonight while spending the evening
with Michael and his family. The weekend
story time and food was great, but I’m mostly thinking about how things
continue to change with our families since Michael and I started dating. Dad has been Uncle Cameron to Michael and
Rebecca for as long as they can remember, though Jake probably does; since he
was older by the time Dad got home from college and his big law firm work. That didn’t change after marrying Mom, and
Rebecca and Stephanie in particular have called her Aunt Julie as often as not
– though that’s changed to first names for Mom and Dad the closer Jake and
Stephanie get to Violet.
Mom’s friendship, and then her working relationship, with
Miranda was a natural fit with Dad’s friendship with Jacob and Miranda; but it
is different now too – as is my friendship with Rebecca. I guess the simplest way to describe that is
to say that we’re becoming one family – very much the same way that the Proctor
and Johnson clans have become very close since Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne got
married. I’m sure that most non-Magi
would find that ridiculous when talking about something like that happening
because of a pair of thirteen-year olds dating; but even Jacob and Rebecca seem
to know that Michael and I have something really special even without any Magi
power to help them come to that conclusion.
That developing family relationship probably isn’t obvious
to everyone in town; though feel free to correct me on that whenever you read
this in my future if I’m wrong. The only
reason for that, though, is our collective busy lives and work – we just don’t
get that many opportunities to do things with all of us together. While having more time for evenings like we
had tonight would be nice, the quantity of time doesn’t change what’s
happening; and I really love being part of an ever-expanding family. The Magi Council probably likes seeing that
happen too as Mom and I really dig our roots deeper into Witch Falls.
Moving along, our entertainment tonight also included my
guitar lesson after we’d finished dinner and the clean-up; but Dad and Jacob
joined in for that and we had a bit of a jam session and sing-along in the
living room. While the television was
on, we didn’t really watch anything after that; and just enjoyed some quiet
chat time until Dad needed to get home and started on his homework for the
night.
We all went home then, and I didn’t get to share a
particularly exciting goodbye with Michael; but we did get that alone time here
earlier so I’m not complaining. While
Dad worked, Mom and I did the bedtime routine with the twins; had my Magi
lesson after they were tucked in; and then I came up to my room to get started
on my studies and work after that. Since
I was already ahead of schedule this week thanks to the extra work last night,
it was easy to keep ahead now; which is why I put a one-thirty time limit on my
studies tonight so I can be sleeping before two o’clock.
I managed to actually come close to hitting that, with just
a slight over-run while finishing up a little family business report instead of
leaving the last hundred pages or so un-read.
The lack of sleep is going to catch up to me eventually, and I
definitely don’t want to be too tired for the weekend birthday action –
whatever that’s going to be; but I don’t plan on cutting back until Wednesday
night – and maybe not even then if I can do another all-work evening and an
early bedtime then. We’ll see how it
goes, but for now; I’m ready to crash for a few hours, so...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
