Ethan and Ehlana:
Our respective sleepovers with Naomi or Aiden were awesome; and we don’t need to write about why Mom and Dad were so-happy today after their kid-free night! We all had fun at the Ayres’ home with the barbeque dinner and campfire and back yard play time and swimming; and then Naomi and I had a bit more bonus fun with her parents before they headed to bed and we stayed up late and kept ourselves entertained in an often non-verbal way. Ehlana assures me that she had fun with Aiden too without any time with his parents because they’d needed to go to bed right after their early departure from the campfire; and I don’t need to add details to their private fun either.
Our Tai Chi workouts were separate this morning, but that’s fun sometimes too; and I’ll mention that Naomi and I are getting very close to being as synchronized with our forms as I am with Ehlana or Cassie and Michael are together. Just in case it is meal time when you’re reading this in the future, I won’t detail Ehlana’s bakery treats breakfast choices, and while Naomi and I are not chefs; we did well-enough with pancakes, eggs, and bacon for our morning meal. We took care of the clean-up too; and then we met up with Ehlana and Aiden; hung out with them for a while; and then we all headed to the park to get started on the all-day baseball adventures.
We’ve spent most of the day at the park to now; and we don’t have much time for this update before we need to have dinner and then head back to the park for the co-ed ball game. We’re happy to report that ‘our’ teams have won all four games so far. Brianna, Faith, and their team had the closest call with a two-run victory; and Ehlana, Naomi, Sophia, and their team cruised to the biggest win by ten runs – convincingly proving that their one close win was the anomaly this season. We’re hoping for the best to get the sweep with the co-ed game tonight, but we’re also booked to host the babysitting tonight while many of our favorite parents go out to the pub after that game. We’ll keep most of the kids and teens for a sleepover too; so we expect to be very busy for the rest of the day. We also really need to go eat before we have to be back at the park; so let’s wrap this up.
Cassie and Michael were in Istanbul today and needed to work most of the time, but fit in some minor sightseeing along the way around the city. They only have one more day in Turkey; and then they’ll move on to Georgia for their final work days – where they’ll split their time between work and a visit with May and Lee before they start heading home.
On the world and political news front, there were no announcements from the Presidential summit in Alaska; and a deal to end the war seems unlikely considering the rhetoric coming from the Ukrainian and European leaders that refuse to concede that Russia is winning the conflict. From our perspective, everyone involved is losing as long as people are dying and the destruction continues on both sides, but those leaders really don’t seem to care about spending hundreds of billions of dollars to blow everything up. When the war does end, they’ll then need to spend hundreds of billions more to rebuild Ukraine; and the loss of lives will take decades to recover – if that can ever happen without major changes when so many Ukrainian men have died.
We can’t change any of that, but can do our part to bring love to the world with our kid-control and babysitting efforts for the rest of the day; so we’ll go do that and share those stories with you sometime tomorrow!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
