Ethan and Ehlana:
Happy 22nd Birthday, Rowen!
Cassie, Michael, Tim, and their friends have taken care of making Rowen’s day special – even with the work that includes getting ready for final exams; and we only managed to help out with the gifts we sent with them to give to Rowen this morning. We didn’t get to talk to her today, but that’s mostly because today was also the Moms’ Christmas shopping day; and our family grandparents headed back to Arizona this morning too.
Our day was not Christmas shopping, travel, or birthday great, but we did have fun at school; and then we had a near-repeat of yesterday with band practice after school and lab or archives time after a Pizzeria pizza dinner with Dad. We didn’t play at the lab as long as last night, but we also didn’t get home until after Mom did – and had the van unloaded too. The band practice was a highlight of our day, and while we had fun at the lab too; Ehlana worked on analyzing her experiment data from last night; I continued my work on the archives; and we don’t have anything exciting and newsworthy to offer tonight.
After getting home from the lab, we had a visit with Mom and Dad in the office; came upstairs; and opted for bath or Jacuzzi time before getting around to our bedtime computing and twin chat. We’re warm and sleepy, but at this point we need to catch up on some recent holiday weekend news or just leave it to others for whatever they’ve written in their archives – so we’ll go with the extra news.
Let’s start with baby and toddler-related news for the family. We weren’t in the loop for most of that, but Cassie and Michael spent as much time as they could with Jake’s and Rebecca’s kids; and they were really feeling sad about how much they are missing while at college as those kids grow so fast. That’s true for Violet’s family with Ryan and Emma; and that’s especially-true for Dawn while she’s busy at college too. This was an away holiday for the Johnson clan, but Christina and Josiah have that same issue with her family – including everything they’re missing with her nieces, nephews, and next-gen cousins. That’s part of our lives that we don’t write about much, but we’re also really glad that Cassie and Michael are now only about six months away from being home to stay.
That brings us to the latest for their new home build – and the visits they made to the house while home last week. Their friends got to visit the construction site too, and while there is still a lot of interior work to be done; they are all impressed with what they can see so far. Basic interior construction continues, so none of the rooms are finished, but all of the roughed-in plumbing and electrical is finished; most of the interior walls and ceilings are installed; and some painting has begun. The kitchen and bathrooms are projects that are supposed to be done by Christmas; and the current plan is to have the house ready for furniture by spring break. We didn’t go along for any of those visits, but we do expect to get drafted to help out when it comes time to get their house set up for them so it will be ready for them in May. We’ll have more on that story as it progresses; so stay tuned for more!
Jaimie and Kaitlyn should get some coverage for their stories with Micah and Jeremy. We didn’t really spend much time with them over the weekend, and while we would have loved to do more with them; it isn’t surprising that they chose to spend most of their long weekend paired up and doing teen-couple-rated things! We should add that Uncle Blaine and Aunt Alison are building friendships with Micah’s and Jeremy’s parents; and that’s especially-entertaining with Jeremy’s Mom. Let’s not get weird about that – the families are just having fun with the jokes; and tween or teen summertime relationships aren’t grounds for any weirdness with parents and their kids.
Moving along, while we have next-gen hometown babies and toddlers, that isn’t true for the visiting Rice and Proctor cousins; so this holiday weekend was different compared to when all of the new Johnson clan kids and their parents are in town. One thing that is the same is that we didn’t spend much time with the young adult couples while they enjoyed hanging out with Cassie, Michael, and their college friends. While we missed out on most of that fun; we’re glad that our cousins got to have more fun while with us for the holiday. Our Rice-family cousins also spent time with Violet, Dillon, and their kids; and we’ll need to adjust for all of that even more from now on as our family time spreads out to more homes.
Okay, that’s enough for tonight. We didn’t get around to teen and tween gossip from the weekend, but that isn’t anything serious; so we’ll just let it go and at least some of those stories will make it into other parts of the archives – even if that’s only through personal journals of other kid and teen Magi. Now we just need to crash and nap; so we will!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
