Ehlana and Ethan:
Twin music practices and bedtime chats
continue tonight; so we’ll multi-task our journal update again too.
The good news for today is that the
temperature stayed above freezing again; and that’s working out for us because
we’ve gotten a lot of rain instead of a snowstorm. A wet day ‘encouraged’ us to stay indoors as
much as possible, but we still walked to school this morning; and then on to
the lab after that before eventually getting a ride home from there with Uncle
Adam. Rain didn’t keep us from having a
good day at school; the lab or archives work was great; and we were glad to get
back to that again after a few days off.
Dinner and a work or study night with Mom
and Dad was fun too; and we always feel happier about that right after Dad gets
back from his visits to the city. Our
studying included both a Magi and music lesson to go along with our doctoral
research; so there was a lot of fun mixed in with the work for all of us. A time phase has kept us from being up late
too; though we have used up some extra ‘real’ time with the bonus music fun
after being sent up to bed with a round of hugs and kisses.
That, by the way, is something that is
becoming different for us compared to Cassie at our age – or near to it. She had regular bedtime stories and chats
with Mom and Dad – as well as Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam – for years after Mom
and Dad got married. We aren’t doing
that differently because we’re too-cool for that; we’ve just had story time
since before birth; and even Dad ran out of new stories to tell us
eventually. There will be many other
things that we won’t do exactly the same as Cassie did as we head from here
through our teen years; that’s okay with all of us; and Mom and Dad probably
appreciate the variety! ;^)
There isn’t really anything to add for
today, so we’ll wrap this up; and go get some sleep. Our adventures for the next couple of days
will likely be a bit quieter, but the plan is to get extra work done again; and
then be ready for some bonus fun this weekend – at the Maple Valley Winterfest. We might not actually have any winter-worthy
weather to go along with the festival, but we can manage to have fun anyway –
and enjoy all of the maple syrup based treats that are the true highlights of
the festival!
We might be getting a sugar rush just
thinking about that, so we’re out of here; and moving on to nap time before we’re
too fired-up to sleep.
This is Ehlana Proctor; live from the hidden
home of the Magi of the Light – and may the Magi Force be with you!
