Welcome to the family, Leah Elizabeth Ayres!
So much for having a boring day compared to Rebecca, Jenny,
and the rest of the Grade Eight class; though that theory did work just fine
until Aunt Deborah went into labor while having dinner with Uncle Nick. After that, it was fun, fun, fun – for those
of us who weren’t personally giving birth, or the baby being delivered.
Leah was born at two thirty-four in the morning after more
than nine hours of labor. I was at the
clinic for most of that time, though Mom, Dad, and I needed to get Ethan and
Ehlana fed, packed, and dropped off for a sleepover with Grandma and
Grandpa. There was a waiting room full
of family at the clinic, and Uncle Adam had lots of medical help from his
grandparents – and from Mom and me when we gave Aunt Deborah the same gift that
Uncle Adam and I gave Mom when the twins were born.
With some non-Magi at the clinic, it was interesting to
watch how Uncle Adam, his grandparents, and Uncle Nick handled the shielding and
empathic links for Leah. I didn’t help
with that, but got to be in on some of the telepathic conversations; and Uncle
Adam is doing Magi births differently since learning so much from Mom. While Uncle Adam and I haven’t made up a
formal scale to measure Magi, Latent, and normal auras, but I think that Leah
will be about as strong as Naomi; though it’s too early to know what all of her
talents will be.
Aunt Deborah and Leah are both doing just fine, and maybe
even better than some members of their family; since we’re all exhausted. It’s past four-thirty as I write this; and
Mom, Dad, and I only got home about fifteen minutes ago. I’m exhausted, but still fired up too. We’ll see how long that lasts into the school
day once the adrenaline wears off and I’ve only had a short nap.
There were other things happening today, but I really do
need to get what rest I can, so I’ll do the condensed version.
Mom, Dad, and I had another beautiful morning for Tai Chi by
the river, but we started getting a dash or two of rain later in the morning;
and had some thunder-showers roll through in the afternoon and evening. The highlight of my school day was a rainy
day bonus music practice at lunchtime with Rowen and Michael. The rest of the day was pretty good, but uneventful. My family business work would be considered
scary by most kids and teens – I worked on back-to-school plans – and we’re
still more than a month and a half away from the end of this school year.
While at the clinic tonight, though I spent a fair bit of
time in the waiting room with everyone else, I did get my usual nightly
studying done too by spending a couple of hours in Uncle Adam’s little office
where I could do that work without having anyone who doesn’t know about my
secret identity seeing what I was doing.
That’s probably a good thing, because I may need to take tonight off and
catch up on my sleep instead.
Anyway, I really do need to try to get that nap started, or
I’ll just end up staying awake, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
