Mom’s in the city having a five-star
sleepover with Dad tonight; and we’re having a girls’ night here at home. Ethan is at Aiden’s house so we can do that;
Ehlana has Naomi with her; and Rowen’s here with me. We’ve had a movie and makeover adventure; a
lot of girl chat fun; and Ehlana and Naomi are camping in the lounge tonight
while Rowen is in my room with Mandy and me.
Before I get to the rest of my report; this
next part may or may not be available to you; depending on when you’re reading
this in the future. If all you see is
stars and the rest of my ‘normal’ update; check back again in a decade or ten
and that’ll likely have changed for you! ;^)
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It’s been a while since my last restricted
journal entry, but since Rowen and I are having a girls’ night; I thought that
I should include an update related to that last one about Rowen and Tim.
There are some teen-friendship implications
that go along with having friends move on to that next level of intimacy. I know this will be a shocking revelation,
but apparently, once you’ve crossed that line; you want to keep sharing that
kind of intimacy with your significant other!
I know – who’d have ever guessed? ;^)
My point, though, is that Rowen and Tim
need to make time for that and work it into their busy schedules. Add in one other factor – the all-important
menstrual cycle; and it can get weird for both the guy and girl – even when
they’re Magi. sure, I still help Rowen
with that now and then when she needs me to do that – the menstrual thing – not
the intimacy with Tim; but it does have a more-serious impact than it does for
teens that haven’t ‘crossed over’ to that next level.
Rowen and I talked about all of that
tonight – after Ehlana and Naomi were sleeping, and while she’s working that
out with Tim; I’ll admit here that I’m glad that Michael and I don’t have that
added stress – and I mean that in several ways.
The biological risks are obvious; as is the stress that goes along with
wanting to do something but having lack of opportunity for that kind of play
time. We can joke about it, but I really
don’t think that Rowen and Tim would like getting caught doing anything they
shouldn’t at the computer store, school, or anywhere else!
For Magi, though, there are the added
stresses that go along with controlling your talents while in an elevated
physical and mental state. I could be
more blunt about that here, but won’t; and this isn’t an issue that’s only a
problem for young, intimate couples.
Rowen’s fall down the stairs when we found out about each other and the
stress on Tim’s Mom when Lee had his accident are two good examples. Inadvertent use of our abilities has happened
with Magi couples in Witch Falls before; and it is an issue for the teens that
haven’t found out about each other yet – or if their talents are inadvertently
revealed to a non-Magi.
Without getting into details that might
gross out the guys reading this one day in my distant future; those risks are
higher for the girls while at certain stages of their menstrual cycle.
Let the usual jokes begin all you want; but
I’d also advise that you don’t use any of them on a Magi woman going through
one of those, um, periods. They don’t
need to physically pick up things to throw them at you! ;^)
On a side note, I wonder if Tim’s father
takes that into consideration ever since he saw his wife throw a combine across
the shop floor?
That’s gotten a bit off-track, but then I
guess that’s pretty much all I have on this for now. As before, I’ll leave it up to Rowen and Tim
to decide when they’ll feel comfortable with releasing these bits of my journal
for anyone with access to the archives to read; but I don’t expect that to
happen for quite a while. I know it will
be a bit weird, but this is something that we don’t write about in the
archives; and something that we should all understand better and learn to
discuss and deal with more openly – particularly with our teens and tweens.
I’m personally wrapping this up with a
mental picture of a Magi sex education class at the school, but I need to
finish my update and get some sleep; so I’ll try not to have too much fun with
that!
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Okay, that was fun; but let’s get on with
the news of the day!
Tai Chi by the river was great; Michael
stayed for breakfast; and then we eventually had a great day at school while
Mom packed up and headed for the city by mid-morning. Rowen and I had cheerleading practice at
lunchtime; she worked after school; and I came home with Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi,
and Aiden and took care of them for the rest of the afternoon. It was cloudy and there was a threat of rain
or thunderstorms this afternoon, but we dodged them; and went for a bike ride
and some play time at the park. Ehlana,
Naomi, and I eventually dropped Ethan and Aiden off with his parents at the
bakery; we picked up treats while we were there; and then came home and cooked
dinner for four. Rowen joined us shortly
after the computer store closed for the night; and we had our meal in the
sunroom. We cleaned up; went for another
bike ride; and then we did our homework in the office before heading up to the
lounge for the movie and makeover fun.
I didn’t get to use my after-school time
for work; which is why I am up so late now; and couldn’t even get started on my
family business work and language studies until after we tucked Ehlana and
Naomi in for the night. Rowen kept me
company for quite a while until she was talked out; and now she’s happily
sleeping while cuddled up with Mandy. We
need to do these girls’ nights more often.
My cat really misses having sleepovers with Rowen!
I’m simply going to miss the sleep that I
won’t be having tonight, but before I get to that nap; let’s add in a few bits
of news that should be mentioned – though they don’t affect me at all.
Mom and Dad are having their sleepover in
Crystal Springs, and I don’t need any details for what they might be doing all
night; but I will mention that they went out to dinner with the Malloys. Mom hasn’t seen them much this summer, so
that’s nice for them; and they especially love getting to see the kids whenever
they can. That’s a new change at our end
now that Ethan and Ehlana are in school full time, but maybe the Malloys can
come visit us for a weekend or something this fall. I’d like to see all of them too; but getting
away to do that at their house just likely isn’t going to be an option at least
until sometime after football season.
Here at home, Michael and Tim couldn’t come
to our girls’ night, but then they were busy with football; Michael worked
dinner-to-close; and Tim ended up working for a few hours after football too –
going out on a service call with his Uncle Lee.
I don’t think about that very much, but we are well-into harvest season
now; and the farm kids are all very busy with that whenever they aren’t at
school or the few team practices they’re allowed to do during the fall.
Yes, football is a valid excuse to be away
from the farm work!
That is a part of daily life for a lot of
my classmates and friends, though; and that’s true for all of the teens working
in stores or for other businesses that support our farmers. Even Rowen’s parents have extra work that
goes along with harvest season. Most
farms are becoming high tech around here; and farmers can’t afford to have
their computer systems go down at all.
That might sound weird to anyone that doesn’t know much about farming,
but it is true; and our farmers are blessed to have Owen taking care of them;
since he truly is a gifted computer technician.
Mom loves her friends and would do anything for them, but I can also
assure you that she wouldn’t let him build her own computers if he wasn’t
good-enough to do the job as well or better than anyone else out there.
I must be tired; since that went way off
from where I wanted to go with the comments about Michael and Tim. Michael worked to close; was on his own for
his homework; and probably went to bed early.
It would have been nice to spend some time with him too, but our girls’
nights really have been a bit too rare lately; so I don’t feel too bad about
that.
We’ll also have the chance for some alone
time tomorrow while Mom’s busy trying to earn another game night championship
with Miranda; so that’s something to look forward to as well.
Rowen and Tim don’t go to game night very
often anymore either. I wonder why –
not!
Now I really need to wrap this up and get
started on my nap – if I can manage to sleep at all now that I’m looking forward
to some Michael and me alone time! I don’t
want to get there and just fall asleep on him, though, so that’s it; and I am
out of here and off to nap mode next.
Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
