Ehlana and Ethan:
We’re changing things up a bit this week in support of our friends, so while Tai Chi by the river and breakfast with Mom after seeing Dad and Anna Marie off to the city for the week went ahead as-normal for us; the rest of our day did not. I spent most of the morning helping Naomi and Samantha with a first ‘workout’ to get ready for cheer squad tryouts that start next Monday; and Ethan and Aiden both went to the park to join Aaron for ‘unofficial’ football practices that some of the older players are leading this week. Some of Aaron’s classmates are joining in too, but most of those guys won’t be ready to make the team this year. I’ll brag a bit and suggest that Ethan and Aiden could play a year early if that was allowed, but they aren’t all that interested in getting hit by much-bigger teens while they are still on the small side of their teen years. Aaron has talked to them about joining in on upcoming weight training at school if – when – he makes the team, but we’ll let you know whether that happens as we head into the new school year.
Naomi, Samantha, and I had fun with our cheer squad prep work, and while we included some exercise and routine practices; we also got to work on picking some music and coming up with original routines for them to offer during tryouts next week. We did have Cassie, Rowen, and their cheer routines for examples, and even had fun with teaching one of those routines to Samantha; Naomi wants all-new routines to impress the older girls on the squad, and while some of those older routines have been used again since Cassie and Rowen were in high school and would still work again this year; there are more-contemporary choices that we can use now. Samantha is getting a break from her family farm work to do this with Naomi, but needed to get back to work, so Naomi went along while her father gave Samantha a ride to the farm; and Ethan met up with me at home where we got cleaned up before taking lunches to go and heading to the lab for the afternoon. While we could have spent time playing with our friends and cousins – including the visiting teens and kids, but we really wanted to get more work done today and this week while we can and before we’ll be back to school and will need to cut back again. Believe it or not, everyone else manages to have fun now and then without us, but then we always have fun playing with our beakers or books – a truth that wouldn’t apply to most of our cousins or friends. That need to work continued into this evening, so we aren’t doing any sleepovers or camping. There was a family barbeque dinner that was mostly to welcome the Everetts home again, and they got back in time for Faith’s baseball practice, but while that meal was fun; it was also fairly-quick; and then Ethan and I came home with Mom for a family business and charity work session. Mom did a Magi lesson with us too, but we also used a time phase; and can have a comparatively-early bedtime.
Getting some extra sleep sounds good right now; so let’s wrap this up. Cassie and Michael had a busy day in Austria with three meetings and two site visits and a dinner charity event. They’ll be getting started on their Tuesday soon while we sleep and have another packed day because they do only have two full days in Austria and will move on to Switzerland tomorrow. We’re happy to know that their work is going so well, but we are also really looking forward to having them home again on Sunday – though we’ll only have a week of summer break left to go and might not get to spend much time with them anyway before we’ll be back to school.
Ethan and I really do want to get some extra sleep tonight, so we’ll take another break from world news commentary; call it a night; and move on to nap time now.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
