Ehlana and Ethan:
Let’s begin this update with political news to get it out of the way and then move on to our own stories. Even in our little home town, the first Presidential debate of this election cycle. If you’re bored, there is a current events section of our archives that you can go to for news reports; so we’re only going to offer our own teen perspective on the story. We don’t care about the debate at all! It doesn’t matter to us who won or lost or how badly the debate went for our current President. That isn’t being thoughtless or careless – we simply know that it will make no real difference here in the real world to select either of these candidates; since they’re just puppets for the real power-holders in this country and the world.
Moving along, we had an awesome Friday, and while the chores were a bit tedious; we had a blast helping out around the new cottages and with keeping the younger kids entertained. Uncle Blaine, Aunt Alison, and Jayden rolled into town early in the afternoon, so Jayden hung out with us too; and Susan joined us by the time we got around to the family barbeque dinner that Mom and Dad hosted. Chris and Sadie are here too; and they are staying in Mom and Dad’s cottage and helping out with getting it furnished and set up while also working with Uncle Blaine on the builds-in-progress for both the cottages and the seniors’ community homes. The Malloys are here too; and doing the same with their cottage and Uncle Terry’s work.
One change that is new is that the visiting kids and teens opted to stay in their new cottages last night – and tonight. That’s why Ethan, Aiden, and I were at Naomi’s house for a co-ed sleepover last night without extra teens while Susan spent more of the evening with Jayden at his family cottage – though she didn’t stay for the night. We were happy with that change because we weren’t needed to keep Valerie and Marcus entertained; and that could be an ongoing change because those cottages are very cool! Then again, if Mom and Dad’s cottage doesn’t have occupants at any time this summer; Naomi has already offered to stay there with Ethan to take care of the place! ;^)
We need to move this along because we need to get back to the real world soon. Our Saturday so far has been great; and baseball games have been the entertainment highlights while doing more work around the cottages come in next for the ‘what’ we’ve spent most of the day doing. Tai Chi in Naomi’s back yard got our day off to a good start; and then we moved on after breakfast to catch parts of the morning ball games and mixing that with help at the cottages and kid control entertainment. On the baseball front, all of ‘our’ teams won today – again; and we’re off to a great start this season. Faith is getting extra attention for being so quiet while still leading her team to another win, and while we’re enjoying playing well too; Brianna is loving the chance to play with Leah and Hailey; and their team is proving to be very good and they won big today and cruised along through the last three innings.
Another family-and-friends’ barbeque dinner is up next and we need to go and help out now; so that’s all for this report. Ethan and I will be hosting a teen co-ed night, so we are going to be busy for the rest of the day. Stay tuned for those stories while we move on right now.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
