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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!

Monday, June 16, 2014

Cassie's Journal - June 16, 2014

Our first weekday of the summer holidays has been just about perfect.  It was sunny and hot, with just one little late-afternoon thundershower rolling through that didn’t really get in the way of anything because we were having dinner at the time anyway.

While I missed out on seeing Dad off on his trip to the city; starting the day with Tai Chi for two by the river at Michael’s house was really great, and so was having a second breakfast in a row with his family – this one cooked by Jacob while Jake and Stephanie slept in.  Since Monday and Tuesday is the Stone family ‘weekend’; Michael had major chores to do all morning; and I helped him out with that so that he could get done sooner and we could get on to the play time with Rowen and Tim.

When we were set free, we put a picnic lunch together; hopped on our bikes; and went over to the park to hang out there; ride the trails; and enjoy the hot, beautiful day.  We followed that up with swimming at my house that we took Ethan and Ehlana with us for that gave Alicia a break from the babysitting action while Mom was at the lab with Owen and Andrew.  I was with Michael for dinner at his house; though we didn’t go over there again until after Mom was home again and Alicia was finished working for the day.

I guess that the little thundershower did affect our dinner plans a bit, since we were indoors for that instead of out on the back porch, but then it was fairly humid and over a hundred by then; so we might have been indoors for that anyway.  Whether the rain affected that or not, the food was awesome; and getting to do more family meals with Michael at his house all summer is going to be really great!  The little bit of rain had ended in time for his baseball practice; and the ground had pretty much soaked it all up and was dry again in what seemed like moments.  While Michael went to meet up with Tim and the rest of their teammates for their practice, I went home first to collect Ethan and Ehlana before meeting up with Rowen so that we could play with them while the boys were busy.  Their practice was fairly serious, since they have a game on Saturday, and Ethan and Ehlana kept Rowen and me busy at the playground; so we were all ready to cool off with a long swim after getting home again.

That had been a great way to end the play time parts of our day, but then it was time to go in for the night; and our string of camping and sleepover nights came to an end with a round of goodnight hugs and kisses before Ethan, Ehlana, and I went inside and Michael, Rowen, and Tim all headed off to their own homes.  I helped Mom with getting the twins into bed for the night; she did a Magi lesson with me after that; and then I came straight up to my room to get started on some family business work to go along with my summer-schedule bedtime computing.

Even with the Magi lesson and work, I’m still going to be sleeping before midnight again, which is a good thing; since Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I are going to do our first canoe trip to the whirlpool tomorrow.  I’m going to get to that nap time really soon, but let’s clean up a couple of news details from around town first.

First up, with all of the work and Father’s Day action yesterday; I didn’t really end up getting the grad party reports from Rowen and Tim until today while we were biking and having our picnic at the park.  His Aunt and Uncle apparently put on the best grad party in years for Kyle and his classmates; which earned them top marks for coolest parents of the week.  While they were worker bees instead of party guests; Rowen and Tim still loved getting to be there for the party along with the most popular older teens in town; and all of that fun just has Tim even more determined than ever to be a high school football hero like his cousin.

Next on the list is just a minor news item about Jenny that came up at dinnertime today.  She’s going to start helping out at the Inn again with Rebecca for the summer, and while Miranda’s still going to work that out with them; it should be interesting for Michael and me to be hanging out with both of them again whenever I help out there too.  I’ll take a wild guess that at least part of Jenny’s decision for that had something to do with her other summer activities options at home or helping out at the Fix-it Shop – or whatever other money-making opportunities she had available; but I’m glad that she will be spending more time with Rebecca and me too.

Finally, for Rebecca, she’s still in the process of figuring out what dating a ‘farm kid’ is going to be like.  I don’t envy her and Lucas for that – living just down the street from my boyfriend and getting to do stuff with him pretty much every day is way better than figuring out how to juggle farm chores and work at the Inn with finding common free time to spend together – particularly when getting rides back and forth between town and farm has to be worked out too.  Lucas’ day starts early on the farm too, so even though his father cut him some slack with the two camping adventures he has done with us; he probably won’t get to do that with us regularly either.  We’ll see how that goes, but if Rebecca starts looking as though she isn’t getting enough boyfriend time; Michael and I might just have to get creative and intervene.  I’ll keep you posted on that.

Okay, I think we’re done with the news, and I really do want to be at full power for our canoe trip to the whirlpool; so, until next time…

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