I was up early this morning to see Dad off
on his trip to the city, and then Mom, Ethan, Ehlana, and I had a nap together
before waking again and meeting Michael for Tai Chi by the river. While that made for a nice, relaxed start to
the day; I’ve been very busy since then.
The Grade Nine teen news today was topped
by the flash report that Marcie and Marc have gotten together. While they’re not on the official couples
club rolls yet; the consensus among the girls is that it’s a done deal with
just the first date needed to meet the minimum requirements. They’re happy right now, but if I’m being
honest about it; they’re not a pairing that makes sense to me unless their only
goal is to not be starting high school as singles.
It was a busy but not particularly exciting
day on the class work side of things, and while it hasn’t returned to
summer-hot kind of weather; it was nice enough out to have lunch outdoors and
then sit around and watch the boys play football. You’d think that Tim would be getting enough
of that by now; but apparently there’s no such thing as too much football.
Cheerleading practice after school was fun,
and Dani had us putting together yet another new half-time routine. We shouldn’t need many more of them to have
enough to get through the rest of the season if we use each of them for one
home and one away game – at least until and if we make it into the
post-season. We were finished out
workout before the boys were, but since I was having dinner and spending the
evening with Michael at his house; we sat in the bleachers and worked on our
homework for a while until he and Tim were finished their practice. They’d needed to hit the showers too; but
then Michael took me home while Rowen took Tim home with her.
Dinner with Michael and his family is
always awesome; and Jacob was doing some experimenting that made the meal an
adventure for us. Since we’d been busy
before dinner, Michael and I were on the clean-up crew; and then we sat at the
dining room table with Rebecca and did our homework. Rebecca had some news today too. She’s going to be helping out with the school
newsletter and yearbook; and one of her jobs is going to be sports
reporting. That conveniently gives her
an excuse to go to all of the football games now; and she’s probably going to
hitch rides with us – the cheerleaders – for all of the away games.
It didn’t take too long to get our
assignments finished, and then Michael and I had some music play time in his
room. We worked on our music class and
band music first; practiced for the praise team after that; and then did a
guitar lesson. Once all of that was
done, we happily practiced rests for twenty minutes or so before ending my
evening at his house with a little cuddle time and chat with Miranda and Jacob.
I was home by ten; helped to get Ethan and
Ehlana tucked in for the night; we had a chat with Dad while doing that; and
then Mom did a Magi lesson with me before sending me off to bed at a quarter to
twelve. It’s been all work and studying
since then; and now I am totally baked and ready to crash for a few hours. The language studying is going great; the
archive assignment that Mom gave me was a serious snooze-fest; and the family
business work was all Christmas-related for some of my retail companies. It’s actually a bit late in the business
planning cycle for that; but there’s a good chance that I’ll need to do more of
that kind of work this year thanks to a lot of uncertainty with shopping
forecasts this year.
Going into any details for that is way too
boring – especially when I’m this tired.
I did promise a college teen update, though; so I’d better do that
before wrapping this up.
Violet and Dillon are having an interesting
start to their sophomore year. They both
have new roommates in their dorms; and quite a few of their freshmen friends
are either out or basically starting over.
They don’t think the second part of that is actually a bad thing, since
they do still have the best members of their study group; but getting used to new
roommates isn’t much fun for them so far.
At least this will be the last year they’ll need to do that.
Note to me – start working on a plan to
avoid living in dorms and have it set up by spring twenty-eighteen!
Jake and Stephanie are having a smoother
start to their school year; but that’s mostly because their schedules work out
better this semester and they can spend more time together on one campus or the
other – or somewhere in between. There
are fewer drop-outs in Jake’s program, so he has most of his friends still
there. Stephanie has a smaller sophomore
class, but she’s enjoying the smaller class sizes. The big news for them, though, is the
possibility that they’ll get to study in Europe during their Junior year. Jake’s probably a lock for one of the
culinary school exchange programs; so Stephanie just needs to work out a deal
too. The cost of doing that will be a
bit scary, but Jake really wants to go for it; and it’ll be a chance of a
lifetime for them. The only part of that
plan that I won’t like will be having them gone for an entire school year;
since coming home for holidays will not be an option for them.
Finally, Christina and Josiah are keeping
busy, and they’re both starting to have some classes specific to their planned
future careers in pharmacy and optometry.
Christina hasn’t sent many updates to me yet; so all I really have to
add to that is they’re happy and glad to be back at school. I really hope that’s only because they’re
enjoying the academic challenges more than their summer jobs at the Emporium
and bank! Maybe we’ll need to find
something more interesting for them to do starting next year – like maybe have
them help out with getting the new medical center set up and running.
I’ll mention that at our next future plans meeting,
but it is past-time for me to go into nap mode now; so I’m out of here.
May the Magi Force be with you!
