Ethan:
Cassie, Michael, and their friends are back
at the college or their townhouses now; so it actually is quieter around here
tonight with just four of us in the house – five; including Silkie.
Ehlana and I didn’t spend a lot of time
with Cassie and Michael today. They were
with us for Tai Chi, but with Michael’s family for breakfast; and with both
sets of parents at lunch – which was at the Inn; since they couldn’t stay late
for even the early buffet when they needed to get Madelana and Stefan back to
their residential halls in decent time today.
We still had as much fun with them as we could the rest of the time, but
Ehlana and I were in Sunday school as usual for most of the service at church;
and then we only helped out with getting Cassie’s car packed between the
goodbyes at the Inn and at home.
After they were on their way – along with
Rowen and Tim; Ehlana and I helped Mom with chores around the house while Dad
got to work on his weekend homework; we had a bit of outdoor play time after
that; and then we had a quiet dinner-for-four at home. Add in some studying or work in the office
after the dinnertime clean-up; and that takes us through to the bedtime baths
and an early bedtime – which for me is going to start right now.
Ethan – out!
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Ehlana:
I love my Jacuzzi!
It helped out with missing Cassie – as did
the chores and studying. Knowing that
Cassie and Michael are going to come home for Easter helps out too, but I’m
still going to want to stay busy this week.
That’ll give me a good excuse to play at the lab a lot; so I will do
that – when that’ll be an option for us.
We’ll see how that works out, but since we’ll be starting our school
week with the annual holiday for pranks and practical jokes; we could be in for
a very strange day – especially when it comes to certain friends and
cousins. Zack may not get many chances
to bug us, but I’m sure that Miles and Joshua will be ready to have fun
tomorrow; and we’ll definitely have to deal with them all day – at least at
school.
Then again, we did send Madelana and Stefan
off with a lot of new material to use for their jokes for Cassie and Michael;
so we might deserve to get pranked tomorrow too. I’ll let you know how that goes for us – and for
Cassie and Michael; since there are sure to be April Fool’s Day pranks going on
at their college – even if they wouldn’t be in on any of those jokes. Michael and Tim really aren’t scarred for
life because of their ‘no hugging zone’ prank on Cassie back when they were
kids, but they also haven’t tried to prank her since then; so they did learn
their lesson – even while they’ve also gotten over their girl-germ phobias. ;^)
Moving along, I guess there isn’t any news
to add to this report, and I am due to get a decent night of rest; so I’ll wrap
this up and do that. We have a lot of
great new memories from our week with Cassie, Michael, and their friends; so I’ll
focus on that now – and try not to be too-sad about them being gone again for
another few weeks. I really do need to
get used to that; since Cassie really will only be home for visits when she can
around all of the school time – and she still has more than four years of that
to go before she’ll be home to stay again.
Note to me – stop thinking about that at
all. It’ll be easier to just take that
separation from our big sister days or weeks at a time. Sleep will help too; so I’m out of here and
back to the real world.
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
