Happy 16th Birthday, Brock! Happy 2nd Birthday, Julian Green!
I had absolutely no involvement in Julian’s
birthday at all, but his big day is being noted here because he will be a
classmate and friend for one or more of my cousins; so we will have that future
connection. Brock’s birthday was a bigger
deal for me – and our classmates and friends; though Michael and I didn’t go to
his birthday party this year. We did
have a gift for him; and we had a party for him at lunch so that those of us
that weren’t going to his party could have a mini-celebration with him; but
then both the lunch and after-school parties were just bonuses for Brock
because getting his license was a bigger deal for him. That’ll be true for most of the guys in our
class this year and quite a few of the girls too, but while I get that for the
country kids that aren’t stuck on the farm anymore once they have that
all-important piece of paper; it really isn’t that big of a deal for most town
kids. Okay, maybe if they have part time
or summer jobs on one of the farms it comes in handy, but when it’s my turn; I
don’t expect to be doing a lot of driving until I’m ready to start college.
Getting back to the update, though, I don’t
have a lot of news for my day other than those bits of birthday fun; but Mom,
Ethan, and Ehlana had quite the adventure – and I can even write about some of
it here without the need for content warnings! ;^)
They got to the city by eleven o’clock;
went shopping for a while; had lunch in the food court; and then did some more
shopping before going on to the hotel.
By then, Mom and Angela had made dinner plans; and Ethan and Ehlana were
also booked for a sleepover at the Malloys with Valerie and Marcus. Marcus is a bit young to appreciate having
kids staying for sleepovers, but Valerie was apparently thrilled to have Ehlana
stay with her, and while I won’t write about what Mom and Dad did with their
kid-free night at the hotel; but they were very happy campers too. I missed out on a great meal out and the play
time with the Malloys; but I’m glad that they all had fun. Mom met up with Terry this morning to get
Ethan and Ehlana back; they did some more shopping; and then picked up fast
food for Aunt Leanne and came home in time to have lunch with her – and with
Claire, Zack, and Brianna. After that,
Mom had work to do around home, so she did that while the twins spent the
afternoon at KidZone; and then the four of us were home for the rest of the day
together so that we could all either work or study in the office – or both in
my case.
We did a lot of that work and studying
while in a time phase; and that’s why I’m able to write this so early tonight –
while I’m multi-tasking my bedtime computing with a nice hot soak in the
Jacuzzi. Mom’s having some tub time
right now too; but Ethan and Ehlana actually ran out of steam and are sleeping
already. Since I’ve been the one running
on empty most of the time lately, that’s a bit surprising; though they’re
already better for that than I was even a few years ago. That’s at least partly a twin thing, but Mom
has also fine-tuned her Magi training; and that makes a difference on days when
they do lessons too.
Speaking of lessons, I’m still not doing
any with Mom right now, but I should mention that I do fit in time for my
self-directed studies and archive reading – even if that isn’t nearly enough
right now. Maybe I’ll work on making up
for that this summer; but we’ll see how that goes. Mom will want to start doing lessons with me
again too; so I’ll need to work that back into my schedule – as if I don’t have
enough on the go already. If only I
could just stay in a time phase all day every day; I’d have no trouble keeping
up with everything! ;^)
There are so many reasons for why that isn’t
possible, but the first mental picture I got with that thought was one of me
returning to real time a year from now a decade or three older than everyone
else my age; and then trying to explain that to our friends and neighbors – or even
funnier; if the entire town had been in the time phase with me and we’re all a
lot older compared to our friends outside of town.
Okay, non-stop time phasing won’t help; so
I’ll just have to find another way!
I’m not going to do that tonight, though; I
don’t have any other news to write about; and it’s time for me to get out of
the tub and ready for bed now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
