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***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!

Friday, June 13, 2014

Cassie's Journal - June 12, 2014



Things were not looking good for our play day at school this morning.  A thunderstorm rolled into town not long after I went to bed; and it was still raining when we got up for Tai Chi.  We exercised indoors; Michael stayed for breakfast; and then he went home to get ready for school while I did the same here.  Fortunately, the rain started letting up by then, and though the school yard was pretty wet by then, and we still had a bit of rain going on while setting up for the games; it started clearing up just in time for the first game rotation of the morning.

Michael and I helped Mom with loading the van with her donations for the play day; and then we headed over to the school with a quick stop to drop Ethan and Ehlana off with Grandma and Grandpa for the morning while Mom was volunteering at the school.  She was running the half-way point snack station at the baseball diamond; and her donations included some of the drinks and snacks they had available there.  We dropped off some of our donations at the school; picked up everything else for that booth; and then went over to the ball diamond and unloaded everything before Michael and I needed to get to home room.

There was way too much going on with all of the games today to cover all of it here; so let’s just go with a few favorite moments or stories.  Tops on the list for me was Rebecca and Lucas teaming up for the competition.  I’m sure that they had fun playing together; but they also won a lot of games too.  Michael and I did pretty well too, and so did Rowen and Tim; but nobody in our class was particularly surprised by that anymore – not even for Rowen.

Playing on wet grass for the first couple of hours until the yard was mostly dried out was occasionally damp, slippery, and comically entertaining; but since a rain day would’ve meant a scaled-back indoor event; nobody had a problem with that.  The contests were pretty much the same as every year, with just the usual variations to things like the race courses or types of obstacles meant to keep them from getting too boring for the older kids and teens.  Having fun was the priority regardless of how seriously any particular kids or teens took the challenges, and as I already mentioned; Tim, Rowen, Michael, and I did pretty well today.  Our class ranking, however, was fairly low, and while I wouldn’t dream of mentioning any names; our quota of classmates that were having more fun with the goofing off than the games was fairly high, and left us out of the running for any overall team awards this year.

Maybe that’s just normal for the Grade Eight classes as they are about to make the jump into High School.  Let me check… nope; no apparent correlation there – at least for the records during the years that I’ve lived here.  Our class was actually closer to the bottom for annual Grade Eight results.

With no homework or after-school part-time jobs to go to for three out of four of us; keeping the play time going after school was an option.  Michael had some time before he needed to be at the Inn too, and Ethan and Ehlana had written their last college final exams for their freshman year this afternoon; so we all biked over to the park for some trail riding and play time. Today, it was the trail riding that was the most fun because we attempted to take Ethan and Ehlana along with us for that with marginal success.  Those kid and teen made trails in the woods are not built for trailers, and while Ethan and Ehlana were game for trying to get some air time off of the jumps; we all could do the math and knew that wouldn’t end well without a little Magi-powered help that wasn’t an option.

Too bad – that would’ve been cool!

I mean no, Mom and Dad; we’d never try anything so reckless and crazy! ;^)

Anyway, we did eventually come up with routes on two trails that I could ride with the twins and the trailer without any hang-ups; so we’ll likely take them along a little more often so that they can do more than just the usual rides around town or out on River Road.  Surprisingly, there wasn’t any football going on at the park after school, so we wrapped up our play time there.  Michael had to leave half-way through that to get to the Inn, but Rowen and Tim stayed and eventually rode back with me so that I had help with Ethan and Ehlana at both ends.

By the way, this will likely be their last summer using the trailer.  They’re pixies like I was at three – and through to puberty; but it’s still getting a bit crowded in there.  Next year they’ll likely be racing us out on those trails with their own little bikes.

While Rowen and Tim left to go and have dinner after that, Rowen came back through to pick me up in time for our baseball practice; and we headed over to the ball diamond for that with a little extra time to warm up on our own.  Tim wasn’t with her, but he did get there a few minutes after our practice started; football in hand and ready to toss it around with Lucas – and with Michael when he joined them after finishing with the clean-up from the dinner rush at the Inn.  The last game night before the summer break was warming up by then too; which is why Mom and Dad were there with the twins instead of hanging out with them at the park on a beautiful, sunny evening.

Baseball practice went well, but let’s get to one of my favorite parts of the night – the after-practice swim with Michael, Tim, and Rowen; followed by some alone time for Michael and me while the rest of our families were at the Inn.  I’m sure that you’re not surprised that we picked doing that over catching the tail end of an extended game night – even if it was the last one until September.  My parents, sister, and brother certainly weren’t!  Since we only have a short day at school tomorrow, and it’ll be all party and no work; Michael stayed to do the bedtime story and snack with Ethan and Ehlana; and then for a Magi lesson with Mom and me.  That wasn’t quite as much fun as our play time in the lounge, but it was pretty good; and our good night kiss on the front porch was definitely worth remembering!

It’s a bit later than I expected it to be for getting to this part of my night, and while all of the fun today was worth putting in the extra hours for; I’m really tired out and ready to call it a night.  There are some things that I’ve skipped – like not really seeing Violet much at all since breakfast while she was busy with other things and spending the night at Dillon’s; but I want to get fully charged up again because we tentatively have plans for a first night of summer holidays camping and play adventure for tomorrow.  Not all of the details are worked out yet, and Michael and Tim were still waiting to hear back from Lucas on whether he can join us too; but the weather’s supposed to be good and I have a feeling that we’re going to really get this summer off to a great start!

With that happy thought in mind for when I get to dream land; I’m out of here!  Until next time…

…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!