Ehlana and Ethan:
Happy 25th Birthday, Lisa Jennings!
Let’s start this report out with the news that Ethan’s future mother-in-law had a happy birthday yesterday; and we did our part to help with the work before and after dinner; the babysitting cousins, sibling, and friends while the parents kept the party going; and the kid-free night that included keeping Naomi and Eli at our house overnight – along with a small gang of kids and teens. We managed to have fun with all of the work too, but were tired this morning when we got up for indoor Tai Chi that was a bit crowded with extra exercise buddies. We were busy with breakfast and getting everyone fed and ready for the day; and then it was time to really get to work on chores and keeping driveways and sidewalks clear thanks to the snow that arrived pretty much as-forecast. The shoveling and chores were at multiple homes; we did a lot of that work with Naomi and Aiden; and now we’re getting ready to split up for the rest of the day – though getting together for more shoveling is likely sometime after dinner since it is still coming down and won’t move out of the area until tomorrow morning.
Aiden is going to be staying with me tonight, and Ethan will be with Naomi, and while Mom and Dad don’t get a kid-free night this weekend; they’re happy to get a turn with us – Aiden and me; and Naomi’s parents might not know what to do with two kid-free nights in a row! Okay, that last part isn’t true, but they like having time with Naomi and Ethan too; and they’ll be doing that without Zack and Eli; since they’re doing a video gaming night with some friends at the Carrington’s house tonight. We’ll have those stories for you with our next update, but the first serious snow of this winter is the top story around here today – though it has mostly been arriving gently and steadily instead of dumping on us. We’ll end up with somewhere between four and six inches total by tomorrow, and while that is enough for us; it is far from the forty-year record breaker that some forecasters and reporters have been claiming. Facts are no longer required for legacy media, though, and every snowflake is a new opportunity to declare another emergency!
That’s a bit too far, but then we feel that way about how information is fed to us now – making it more-challenging to discern truth from nonsense. We are also not claiming that this blast of winter isn’t worse elsewhere in the country – only that dramatic claims that are demonstrably-provable to be wrong are a pointless waste of time. For the most part, we’ve had a very mild winter so far; and a week of snow and cold is actually the norm – not a once-in-a-generation event!
Moving along, Cassie and Michael are not dealing with snow in Bangladesh – it is sunny and around eighty degrees – or is was for their Saturday and will be again for their Sunday as they mostly travel back to Dhaka for their flight to Myanmar. They managed to add in a bit of sightseeing today along with a last blast of work and site visits for their Saturday; they have one site visit booked for tomorrow along the road to Dhaka; and then they’ll turn their focus to the needs of the people of Myanmar for the second week of their southern-Asia adventures. We’ll have more from them next week, but don’t expect much news from their Sunday when most of the time will be spent traveling by car and jet with just a bit of bonus sightseeing along the way.
We haven’t done more than a cursory check for world news, but then we want to stay happy for the rest of the day; so that works for us. What we have seen is more of the same political nonsense. There doesn’t appear to be any real progress for a peace deal in Ukraine from the trilateral meetings on Friday and Saturday; the council of peace doesn’t have any real plans for stopping the genocide of the Palestinians – they seem to want to help out with taking over the land and control it in ways that would require relocating the still-surviving Palestinians; and the Venezuela and Greenland stories are a mess too. Add in another round of naval fleet movements into the Arab Gulf region and the potential for another attack on Iran; and tensions remain high everywhere.
So much for not going there and staying happy! We are going to stop there; since I don’t want Ethan to be late for his ‘date’ with Naomi; and Aiden will be here soon too; so we’re both ready to move on and have fun for the rest of the day. Stay tuned; and we’ll have those stories for you with our next update – or not for the parts of Ethan’s night that he won’t want me to write about too.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
