Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - March 9, 2024

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 13^th Birthday, Joshua!

Having another friend join the teen club is another step along the way to us reaching that modest milestone, but it is also changing our relationships too – including the transition to co-ed parties.  That’s what we’re getting ready for now and we’ll be picking up Naomi and Aiden along the way to Joshua’s party; so we need to move this along and then get out of here soon.

Our Friday evening was awesome, and while we still ended up going out for a short bike ride, we didn’t stay out for long; since a mid-forties temperature just isn’t that great after a handful of winter days with highs in the seventies!  We – the girls – let the boys have fun with some video gaming before dinner and mostly helped Mom with making that meal; that had the advantage of getting to leave the clean-up to the boys too; so that worked out for us too!  We enjoyed the meal; and then our evening entertainment included a long jam session that Mom and Dad heard all of and watched part of when they were ready to join us for that and a movie in the lounge.  The action-comedy we watched was decent but not awesome, so we added in entertainment with our chat time and commentary.  Mom and Dad went to bed after that, and the rest of us stayed up too-late with two more movies and a lot of quality co-ed cuddle time.

That worked for us, we followed that up with a bit of nap time; and then co-healing for the fatigue was an option ahead of Tai Chi and a hot breakfast for eight.  We do not have anything exciting to report for our chores morning, and while Ethan and I teamed up with Naomi and Aiden to do that work at three homes.  We split up for lunch with our own families – which was at the bakery for Aiden; didn’t get around to that until after-one; and then Ethan and I had a bit more work to do before Mom set us free to get ready for Joshua’s party.

We’re nearly-ready to head out, and that’s all we have for this report; so let’s wrap it up and we’ll cover the party and sleepovers details with our next update!

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

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - March 8, 2024

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 25^th Birthday, Luke Taylor!

Cassie and Michael will be attending the birthday party for their friend, and while Tim is closer to Luke than Michael is due to the farm connection, they also had the football team connections; and Luke and his wife, Denise, are renewing friendships that were partially on-hold while they were scattered around the country at different colleges.  Let’s also mention that Luke and Denise attended a city college in Crystal Springs and opted for shorter diploma programs, but don’t take that the wrong way; since we actually think that we need to have more teens choose tech programs and apprenticeships so that we’ll continue to have local experts in jobs that aren’t really even taught in many colleges.

We didn’t want to get into any major commentary about anything today, since this is another early update ahead of a play night with our friends.  Uncle Adam’s birthday dinner and game night at the Inn were our entertainment highlights of the day – though we were on kid-control during dinner and we didn’t get in on the roasting that Uncle Adam’s family and friends had fun with while we all enjoyed the awesome food.  A game night championship wasn’t one of his gifts, but we all managed to have fun with the games anyway; and then Zack drafted Ethan into staying up late playing video games in the lounge while Brianna and I wrapped up our day with some quality girl chat time, a bit of music play time; and a much-earlier bedtime.

I helped Ethan out with some fatigue healing this morning while Zack slept in and missed the Tai Chi workout that Brianna helped to make more-fun as usual.  We had a hot breakfast; and then we had a happy and uneventful final school day of the week.

Now we are getting ready for that play night with our four best friends.  It didn’t get very warm today, so we probably won’t spend much time outdoors once they get here from checking in at their homes and packing overnight bags, but whatever we do instead can wait to be written about until our next update.  We really want to be ready when they get here, though, and still have a few things to do; so that’s all for today and we are out of here and seriously-ready for some quality time with Naomi, Aiden, Sophia, and Aaron – and maybe Mom and Dad will join in for parts of the night too! ;^)

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

Ehlana's andEthan's Journals - March 7, 2024

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Happy 40^th Birthday, Uncle Adam!

We’re about to get started on our parts of helping out with his birthday celebration; so this early update will also be short and the details for the rest of our day can wait for tomorrow.

We’ve had a good day at school, but we’re also getting a cooler, wet day; so we’ve stayed indoors most of the time.  Uncle Adam’s birthday dinner is going to be at the Inn; we’ll all stay for game night; and then we’re going to host Brianna and Zack and won’t want to know what Aunt Leanne has planned for their kid-free night.  That’s why we’re getting our computing out of the way now, but we also need to help Mom with getting guest rooms ready and then we need to get to the Inn to help with a bit of birthday decorating; so that’s all for today and we’ll give you the party and sleepover details with our next report.

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

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - March 6, 2024

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

We’ve had a good day that has included biking and play time with our friends after school; a quiet dinner and work evening with Mom and Dad; and now we’re winding down toward nap time after our bath or Jacuzzi clean-up break.  Our academic adventures were entertaining but uneventful; and we are definitely not going to get into political commentary despite the continuing interest elsewhere in the aftermath of the primaries on Tuesday.  Let’s stay away from another world news rant too, since that gets repetitive when nothing really changes.  That doesn’t really leave anything to write about other than our evening work and Magi lesson.

While there is always more that we wish we could do and can’t – like getting help into places like Gaza that we can’t even really get any serious aid to through our charities.  We do still do what we can elsewhere and that makes a significant difference in the lives of thousands; so we’ll try to be grateful for those successes while continuing to hope for more.  The business side of our family business work doesn’t get as much attention in our journals, but that is mostly because those stories are boring; and we do that work to help with making money to use with the charities.  Mom does have us well-trained, though, and we do very well with the companies that we take care of in our comparatively-modest portfolios.  For Ethan, that means working with literary and media interests while I’m focusing more on biotech businesses.

We really don’t want to bore anyone with the details – though that data is available elsewhere in the archives if you are in need of help with sleeping!  That won’t be a problem for us to deal with tonight, and that is all we have for this report; so we’re out of here and off to dreamland soon!

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

Ehlana's and Ethan's Journals - March 5, 2024

 

Ehlana and Ethan:

Today is Super Tuesday!

News flash for all politicians – most kids and teens don’t care, and if you collectively keep leading us the way you have been doing for decades now; that isn’t going to change once we grow up and can vote too!  Events like this do lead to lessons in our classes, though, so let’s also mention that our local students would choose to vote for ‘none of the above’ when it comes to basically all of the current choices for this round of elections.

While the news cycle is focused on the primary races today, we did our best to ignore the stories both at school and home.  It was a bit cooler today with the temperature only climbing into the high-fifties, so we opted to work-play at the lab or archives after school; and then we had a quiet dinner and work evening with Mom and Dad.  We really don’t want to discuss politics or any other story tonight, so that’s all we have; since getting some sleep will definitely be more-exciting than writing about all of the political nonsense going on today.

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