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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!

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Cassie's Journal - June 13, 2014



We’re free!

Then again, after feeding a bunch of teens and kids tonight, Mom and Dad probably have a different opinion of that – from both a cost and personal, societal perspective; but you know what I mean – we’ve got two and a half months worth of fun and sun ahead of us right now; and all is well with the world!

I’ll back up and start this report from the beginning in a moment, but I’m writing to you live from one of the tents for a semi-major camping adventure.  Some negotiating was involved in making that happen today, but basically we have the kids and younger teens camping here from my family, the Stones, Emersons, Landrys, Bassetts, Nortons and Faulkners – or at least from one family in those clans.

Jake, Stephanie, Christina, and Josiah were all invited too, but for some reason; they all wanted to have indoor sleepovers instead.  Go figure!  Violet and Dillon likely would have made the same decision, but then they left for Woodvale right after Dillon had finished work for the day to spend the weekend there before coming home in time for Father’s Day dinner at the Inn with his family – and ours.

Okay, time to take the rest of this update from the top of the day.

Tai Chi by the river helped to get the day off to a fun start – though technically; it was the good morning hugs and kisses that put the first smiles on our faces – especially the ones I shared with Michael.  Breakfast was of the standard-issue work and school day variety; but Michael stayed for that too; so I was a happy camper.  School was short, with lots of sweets, and had us starting our summer holidays with lots of time left to play.

Everyone gathered at our house because of the still-developing camping adventure plans; and Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I started setting up tents while waiting for everyone else to arrive.  Michael had invited Jessica and Ryan Bassett to join us after finding out that Sophia was getting an invitation to spend the night with Ehlana and Naomi; and since Patrick and Scott were going to be with us; we added Lindsay to the list so that she could hang out with Jessica.  He went home to do chores first, but Lucas had been approved for another camping night too; and was bringing Emma and Benjamin with him.  Ethan only had Aiden on his guest list for the night; so adding in Rebecca; we have a total of eighteen campers, and we’re using six tents.  We did the camp setup work first; and then those of us who were there went to play at the park until dinnertime.  We had a late meal so that Lucas, Emma, and Ben could join us – as well as our usual Friday night group of parents and grandparents.

By the time we ate and cleaned up, that didn’t leave as much daylight left for any major play time; so we only took the younger kids over to the park for a little more playground action before coming home again in time to start our campfire at dusk.  We had help getting that set up, but then Mom and Dad went inside to do some work in the office – with Dad already working on getting ready for his week in the city.  Michael and I provided the musical entertainment taking turns on the guitar; Michael, Tim, Rebecca, and Lucas did the story time; and the younger kids happily kept us fed with toasted marshmallows and the occasional hot dog.

Kids under ten were ordered to bed at eleven o’clock; so we had a little intermission while the rest of us helped to make that happen; and then the rest of us had another hour or so to sit around the fire and talk quietly before heading to our tents too.  There was some goofiness going on after that – mostly with Patrick, Scott, and Ben playing a few pranks that were either aimed at teen couples or Jessica and Lindsay; but then they settled down and there were just six of us left standing – or sitting; since we were out on the benches by the river or on the dock.  Michael and I had the dock seats; and while we had fun chatting with Rebecca, Lucas, Rowen, and Tim; we were also happy to get a little bit of alone time after we split up  - and our friends went in search of other places to do their goodnight hugs and kisses while we stayed where we were and watched the stars while stretching out and cuddling on the dock.

We didn’t have to worry about getting into trouble or anything like Dad apparently did from time to time; but moonlit goodnight kisses by the river really are special.  It’s a good thing that we should get the chance to share a lot of them this summer!  When Rowen and Tim got back; we met up with them outside of our tents; and Rowen and I have been in ours since then – cuddling with Ehlana and Naomi; and keeping warm.

It’s definitely cool tonight, and I hope the boys are all warm too, since cuddling with the other guys isn’t exactly an option for most of them; but I won’t think about that too much right now since I’d really like to be cuddling with Michael instead – no matter how much fun Ehlana is to cuddle with too.

It doesn’t feel as though I’ve really written enough about today to describe just how much fun we’ve had; but there really isn’t anything else particularly amazing to add to this update.  We’ve really just had one of those really great, but not particularly eventful days.  That won’t be the case for at least some of us for the rest of the weekend.  Tomorrow is the grad party for the high school seniors; and Rowen and Tim are going to help his aunt and uncle with putting that event on for Kyle and his classmates.  Mom and Dad have a baseball game tomorrow night; and I’ll be babysitting for that – and when they go out to the pub after the game.  Michael will likely come over tomorrow night after work; so with a bit of luck; we’ll get some alone time after Ethan and Ehlana go to bed.  Sunday is Father’s Day; so that’ll be crazy-busy too – especially when Dad needs to finish getting ready for his week in Crystal Springs.  Maybe he should think about re-scheduling that week in June so he doesn’t always have to spend on of ‘his’ special days stuck in the office.  That won’t be happening this year, though, so we’ll just have to help him have as much fun as he can.

That’s actually my personal plan for the whole summer – to have as much fun as I can.  So far – mission accomplished!

Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!