Happy 16th Birthday, Lucas!
I’ll guess that it’s been a best birthday
ever-so-far for him too; since Lucas is now officially, independently mobile. That’s because he passed his driver’s test
today; and his parents gave him a truck for his one and only gift from
them. It is used, but in good shape;
looks great; and is appropriately loud enough for any teen farm kid to love it
on sight and sound!
For the Magi boys reading this in the
future that still haven’t grown up yet; yes, it has a pretty good sound system
too. If that statement doesn’t make
sense to you someday in the distant future – join the club! Fortunately for Lucas, his mother made sure
that his truck will be reliable for him too – even if his Dad might have been
more interested in making sure it was cool too.
If, by chance, you’re reading this before
Ethan is sixteen, Dad; don’t laugh about this.
I can totally see you making sure that your boy has a cool car or truck
too.
Finally, before I move on and get to the
actual news again, Dad definitely won’t be reading this before I’m sixteen; so
I can add that I have no intention of getting a car of any kind then. That’d just be a waste when I’d be able to
borrow one of their vehicles for the handful of times a year I might need to go
somewhere on my own. I’ll wait until I
go to college to get my first car – and that’s only because I plan on going to
a school within driving distance of home – for weekends and holiday visits as
needed; not daily commutes. That’s
future news for another day, though; so let’s get back to the current events.
We’ve had a great day for Lucas’
birthday. It was cool out this morning
for Tai Chi by the river, but we still had fun together with that; and then
Michael headed home so that he could get ready for his weight training at the
school and grab a quick breakfast to go while I took my time getting ready for
the day and having my morning meal with Mom, Dad, and the twins. Our school day was pretty good too, and so
was cheerleading practice after that. I
wouldn’t say the same for the football practice for my favorite boys on the
team because Michael, Tim, and Lucas weren’t all that thrilled with their
workout this afternoon; but let’s not mess up an otherwise good day with the
downside of being on the team this year with a senior class and captain that
are too full of themselves to perceive reality.
Rowen and I went on ahead to Michael’s
house as soon as our practice was over instead of waiting for the guys so that
we could help out with the dinner party work there. Rebecca was putting on the party for Lucas,
and his parents, sister, and brother were okay with that because Jacob was
cooking the meal for everyone. Sure,
that gift wasn’t as cool as getting a truck for his birthday; but Lucas loved
the food as much as the rest of us did – and he considers that as much of a
dating bonus as I do!
Okay, maybe I appreciate that a bit more
than he does, since he isn’t as adventurous as I am when it comes to the
experimental dinners; but that wasn’t an issue tonight because Jacob cooked up
one of Lucas’ favorites.
In addition to his family, Rebecca invited
Rowen, Tim, Jenny, me, and a half-dozen of Lucas’ closest friends and fellow
football players. His family and more
than half of the guests were there by the time that Lucas got there along with
Michael, Tim, and the other football guys; so the social hour or so before
dinner was already well underway by then.
It was nice enough out that we could have had dinner in the back yard; but
Miranda decided to use the dining room instead – mostly to make the clean-up a
bit easier.
The food was fabulous, and I loved getting
to spend the evening with Lucas’ family and our friends; but the little details
of what we were doing tonight really aren’t particularly newsworthy or
exciting. It was a standard family and
friends teen birthday dinner and party – and we’re talking about a normal
school night party too; so that meant no late-night adventures either. We had dinner; did the usual birthday gifts,
cake, song, and roasting; and then some of us were on the clean-up crew while
Lucas and Rebecca hosted an after-dinner social hour or so until it was time
for most of us to move on to other fun adventures – like doing our homework.
I stayed to do that with Michael, Rowen,
and Tim; and Rebecca had Lucas and Jenny doing homework with her; but I was
still home by ten-thirty – and continued in study mode with my Magi lesson with
Mom.
While I was busy, they’d had company for
dinner and a family business and future plans meeting; but everyone had already
gone home by the time I got there because Dad had a lot of work to get done too
– and was already focused on that by then too.
Ethan and Ehlana were studying while Mom did my lesson with me, but they
were sent off to bed at eleven-thirty once we were finished with that fairly
in-depth healing lesson. I took care of
getting them tucked in for the night and having a bedtime chat with them before
coming up to my room and getting ready for bed too. The archive assignment, language studies, and
family business work has taken me thee and a half hours to get finished, but it
needed to be done; and I can’t let the work get backed up on me at all right
now.
Only having time for naps is going to wear
me out if I don’t get better organized, but let’s not go there either; since I’m
apparently not making any progress there – and the issue isn’t really being
organized anyway. What I need is more
hours in every day – without using time phases to get them; and just burning
out that way instead.
I am skipping the news from the meeting I
missed here tonight to save a bit of time, so if you’re interested in those
details; just check today’s date in the archives for the journals of the usual
attendees to find out the latest. I’ll
still need to get the full report on that later too; since Mom, Dad, Ethan, and
Ehlana just gave me the highlights tonight anyway.
It’s time for me to get into nap mode now
while I still can, so that’s all for tonight; and, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
