Ethan and Ehlana:
Happy 25th Birthday, Michael!
The birthday dinner and celebration that Cassie hosted for family and friends was the entertainment highlight of our day, but we didn’t actually get to spend a lot of time with Cassie and Michael while he was roasted and we helped with next-gen kid control. We helped with the clean-up too; and then we needed to come home with our four best friends for a study session that we didn’t have time for until then.
The weather has been awesome again today, so we had some bonus outdoor time at school; and we’ll continue to enjoy the warmer weather while we can for our football and cheer squad practices. Our team is getting better every week, and while we don’t want to get over-confident; we are feeling pretty good about our chances against any of the other teams. The cheer squad is working on Halloween-themed routines for October; and they are even going to use some of our music for their half-time routines. While we’re having fun with those practices, we don’t really have any other news; and our class time was uneventful today too.
While we studied this evening – and did a group Magi lesson with Mom and had a music practice, we missed out on the continuing birthday fun for Michael that was mostly with their friends that Cassie continued to host instead of going out to the pub or elsewhere on a work night. We had fun anyway; wrapped up at ten-thirty; and now Ehlana and I are winding down toward nap time with the usual twin chat and computing time.
The world news nonsense rolls along without end, and while one of the distractions of the day or week is the deployment of National Guard to various cities has caused another round of political fighting; we’re more-concerned by talk of escalating the conflict in Ukraine by sending long-range missiles to use against Russia – missiles that would need to be fired by our military – not the Ukrainian army. That is an insane risk for our leaders to take when Russia could retaliate not only against Ukraine but directly against us too; since that would basically be a declaration of war by our country. Those missiles are also nuclear-capable; so using them also risks an immediate nuclear retaliation; since there is no way for Russia to know whether those incoming missiles are nuclear or not. That’s bad; and so is most of the news related to Israel and their genocide of the Palestinians. If the only ‘peace’ plan being worked on between our country and Israel is to get rid of the Palestinians by any means necessary; that isn’t peace at all – it is overt genocide.
That’s enough for tonight. We’re tired and need to re-charge; so we’re out of here and off to dreamland soon.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
