Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - April 28, 2026

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 24^th Birthday, Emma Sheldon!

Happy 1^st Birthday, Samuel Stone!

While we didn’t have anything to do with the top local birthdays of the day; Ethan and I have had fun while busy with school and music all day.  The weather was cooler today with the high barely topping sixty, but then we were indoors most of the day anyway; so that didn’t really matter.  There actually isn’t any significant news from our own adventures.  School and our music practices were all good; dinner with Mom and Dad was mixed in between the practices; and we haven’t done any work in the office tonight – though Mom did do a Magi lesson with Mom.  Now we’re winding down fast toward nap time; so let’s cover the travel and world news and then call it a night.

Cassie and Michael had a work day in Fargo, North Dakota; and they are still on the drive to Minneapolis after a charity dinner event in Fargo to wrap up their work there.  Yes, they are skipping over some places where we have family businesses or partnerships between the two cities, but they’d need half a year to visit all of our operations in this country even once.  They got a lot done today even with the time limitations; and multi-tasked some of the appointments by meeting with multiple partners at two of the stops.

As for the world news, peace is talked about without anything actually happening; so everyone is waiting and expecting the fighting in the Middle East to resume at any moment.  One related news story today is that the United Arab Emirates has announced that they are withdrawing from OPEC; and that seems to be political; since they aren’t shipping much oil right now anyway with the Strait of Hormuz still mostly closed.  OPEC still has some impact on world markets when they set production levels, and maybe that power will continue, but their numbers don’t matter at all right now when the Iran and Ukraine wars are causing the largest supply disruptions to hit the world supply chain in decades.

As for the Ukraine war, drone strikes on Russia oil and energy facilities and ships are getting attention and do affect markets too, but the strategy is also still mostly annoying Russian leaders and people; and retaliations are expected and will prove to be worse for Ukraine in the coming months.  We would like to mention that these changes in war tactics are a dangerous trend; and we’ll wait to see whether counter-measures will develop to block the current effectiveness of all types of drones.  Military companies probably still prefer the most-expensive ‘toys’ to sell to politicians and military leaders around the world, but the cost-effectiveness of drones will be very popular with smaller countries on military budgets if that gives them the ability to cause proportionate damage to bigger opponents – just as Iran has been doing to American and Israeli targets in the Middle East.

That’s enough for tonight.  We’re ready to sleep; so let’s do that starting right now.

Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - April 27, 2026

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 3^rd Birthday, Christopher Palmer!

The next-gen birthdays aren’t a big part of our lives yet, and we didn’t have anything to do with Christopher’s special day; Violet, Dillon, and their kids were involved – along with the rest of their gang of friends.

While Christopher has enjoyed his birthday adventures; our day has been fun, but fairly-quiet.  Tai Chi and breakfast with Mom and Dad was good; our academic adventures were uneventful; and then we opted for work-play at the lab or archives because we were getting some rain and thunderstorms in the area by then.  We didn’t use any time phasing while at the lab today and kept the work shorter to be home on time for dinner with Mom and Dad; and then we worked in the office and did a Magi lesson with Mom after taking care of the dinner clean-up.  There was some time phasing involved in the charity work tonight, but that was still minimal; and we wrapped up by nine-thirty.

There isn’t much news for Cassie and Michael today – they drove from Billings, Montana to Fargo, North Dakota with some sightseeing along the way.  They are going to do a lot of long days this week with work and travel planned through to Friday.  We’ll keep you posted on their progress, but they are also looking ahead to spending a three-day weekend in Chicago with Madelana and Stefan.  We did a vid-chat with them tonight, but other than telling us about some of their sightseeing along the way that you can read about in their own journals; so we won’t repeat those stories second-hand here.

Ethan and I are wrapping up our evening now with the usual computer checks and twin chat, and while there is always a lot of news out there to keep up with; there really aren’t any changes in the top stories that we’re usually writing about most-often.  It should be funny that we are so pessimistic about world events while also very happy with our own lives and all of the love and joy we have here at home, but then wars, economic hardships, and all of the other problems of the world are not funny at all.  Yes, we should all be grateful for the pause in the Iran war, but the break won’t matter if this pause is only about preparing for worse in the near future.  Since there isn’t really any significant news beyond the usual daily political rubbish; let’s just stop now and wrap this up.

Stay tuned for our next report; and we’ll go and get some sleep and rest up for the adventures we’ll write about tomorrow!

Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - April 26, 2026

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 7^th Birthday, Bryn Jennings!

We had a family gift for Bryn while at church today, but that was the limit of our involvement in her special day.  Her family and friends are taking care of making her day special; and we’re sure that she is having fun with those adventures.

As for our adventures, Ethan had fun last night with our parents and Naomi; I had fun with Aiden and his family; and we do not need to write about our respective co-ed play and nap time with our respective future spouses!  We started today with Tai Chi by the river, but Aiden and I were on our own for that while Ethan and Naomi got to do that with Mom and Dad.  The weather was decent this morning; so it was nice to be outdoors – at least until the rain and thunderstorms moved into the area late this afternoon.  We had a good morning at church and Sunday school; Ethan and I were on our own for lunch with Mom and Dad; and then we opted to work-play at the lab this afternoon while our friends moved on to other adventures.  While the rain arrived later than forecast and we could have played outdoors; we were glad to play with our books or beakers instead.  Dad had work to do too; we won’t comment on why he didn’t get it all done while we were out; and we enjoyed our dinner with them when we got back from the lab.  Ethan and I took care of the clean-up; we all did a bit of work and a Magi lesson in the office; and then it was bath or Jacuzzi time by nine o’clock.

Now we’re winding down to the nightly twin chat and computer checks.  Before we get to the world news, Cassie and Michael have spent their last day in Montana, and after working and sightseeing in Bozeman yesterday and then driving to Billings in the evening; they worked and played there today.  Their business deals and projects were all rural-living related; and ranged from environmental conservation to sustainable farming and herd management.  They have a travel and sightseeing day booked for tomorrow; and they’ll be in North Dakota by tomorrow night.

That brings us to the world news update, and the top story since last night has been another assassination attempt on President Trump – this time at the White House Press dinner.  The shooter did not really get very close to the President and only managed to injure one Secret Service agent before being disarmed and arrested.  We do not want to make light of how serious the incident was, but will point out that it has proved to be a great distraction from the more-serious issues in the Middle East, Ukraine, and the rest of the world.  There has definitely been no change in either war; no peace talks are happening; and the status quo that is continuing to destroy the world economy rolls along with no end in sight.

From our perspective, this incident is another example of the stresses in the world that are leading to new levels of anger and hatred; and we expect that this trend will escalate in the coming months – especially as the weather improves in the northern hemisphere.  It would be amazing if the rest of the world would choose love and happiness instead of selfishness and hatred, but we may be waiting until the Ascension of the Light before we’ll see that happen.

Let’s stop there.  Ethan and I need to catch up on our sleep, so we’re going to do that; and be ready for the last school week of the month.  Stay tuned; since we expect that our adventures are going to get more-exciting again as we head into May and the last two months of the school year.

Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - April 25, 2026

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 22^nd Birthday, Jessica Bassett!

Happy 5^th Birthday, Donald Reynolds!

This is another afternoon update and we don’t have much time for it because Ethan is getting ready to host Naomi for the rest of the day while I’m packing for a night with Aiden and his family, so instead of writing more than a placeholder report; we’ll opt for a few basics and save the rest for a weekend update tomorrow night.

We had a blast with our family and friends last night from the biking on the trails through the dinner, movies, music, and co-ed cuddle and nap time.  Today has been all about chores at multiple homes and cottages so far since Tai Chi and breakfast with Mom, Dad, and our best friends; and we have more chores now as we’re dealing with the spring clean-up chores in addition to the ‘normal’ weekend work.

Everything else can wait for tomorrow night and we really do need to move on now; so that’s all for today.

Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - April 24, 2026

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

We are writing this quick update between school and the start of our weekend.  Our day has been pretty good so far, but not newsworthy; and now we’re getting ready to head out for some biking with our friends.  Mom and Dad are going to host a family-and-friends’ dinner and movie night; and then we’re going to host a co-ed sleepover with our best friends.  The rest of our news for the day can wait until after we live the best adventures; so let’s wrap this up.

Cassie and Michael worked in Missoula today, and they will be driving from there to Bozeman tonight.  We’ll have more on their travel adventures over the weekend, but we haven’t talked to them today-so-far; so we don’t actually have any news from them for today either.

Everything else can wait too – especially the world news, so stay tuned for our next report; and we’ll get out there and started on the fun!

Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!