Ehlana and Ethan:
Happy 45th Birthday, Patricia Emerson!
Our personal news of the day-so-far for the last day of January has not been all that exciting; since we’ve mostly been working on chores since breakfast to now at multiple homes. That has been paying forward for the fun last night with family and friends; our co-ed sleepover; and the Tai Chi and hot meal start to today with Mom, Dad, and our four best friends – and we also managed to play nice while working at Cassie and Michael’s house despite being jealous of their hot-weather adventures in Myanmar! Ethan and I are currently getting cleaned up and ready to head over to the Carringtons where we are booked to babysit a gang of kids with Naomi and Aiden while the parents go out to Patricia’s dinner and party. We’ll be there for the rest of the day and overnight, and we need to head over soon; so let’s move this along.
Cassie and Michael haven’t quite started their Sunday and final day in Myanmar as we’re writing this, but we know they are mixing less work with more play time for their first day of February; and they are going to love doing that when the sunny high will approach the mid-nineties! We might not get their Sunday report until our Sunday night – unless they try a breakfast vid-chat with us at the Carringtons’ tomorrow morning! We’ll keep you posted; and will only add that they are continuing to do a lot of good; are making new friends along the way; and definitely giving the locals a better impression of Americans than our leaders are ‘earning’ pretty much everywhere in the world!
Yes, that is my segue into the world news report, and as of this writing; we haven’t taken much time at all for checking the news at all because we want to stay happy. We are likely to need the positive energy with Zack and Eli to keep an eye on tonight – though they do not accept having babysitters anymore while also not wanting the job of watching the younger cousins and next-gen kids. For the record, Sophia and Aaron are babysitting tonight – they’re just doing that for some Bassett and Palmer clans’ next-gen kids; and those parents are not all going out to Patricia’s party. None of that is world news related; and maybe that’s okay for the last day of January. We’ll be good with having our leaders taking a break from starting another war before the end of the month – though our expectations for having that continue in February are very low as the rhetoric rolls on with threats from both sides. We really do need to go, but for one last bit of news that we’ve waited to mention; the Russian president has apparently agreed to a one-week break in the bombings and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities due to the extreme cold in the region. We didn’t want to mention that if it didn’t actually happen, but there is apparently a lull; so that is a minor bit of good news for Ukraine – not that the rest of the fighting has slowed; and there is no limitation on the rest of the destruction along the front lines and elsewhere. Let’s also hope that Ukraine doesn’t use the opportunity to do anything bad; since that will just lead to worse in the future; and they should remember that those missiles and drones that aren’t being used this week can be used later with a doubling up of destruction capacity.
Okay, that’s all for today. We need to get to our babysitting adventures now; so we’re out of here!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
