When we got home to our family mom had a worried look on her face but put on a brave smile when she asked us “How was your first day of School?"  Astraea ran right up to her, jumped in her lap, gave her a hug with the biggest smile on her face and said, "It was Magical!"  Astraea always knew how to comfort her new mother the best way she knew how, with love!  "Oh mom, it was a perfect day!  First, I got to play in all the trees before the first bell rang, while Aphrodite met a few friends."  Aphrodite corrected her "Well the first friend I met was a little rocky ha-ha, her name is Lucy"  mom was getting a little more relaxed while her children were talking to her  "Anyway, Aphrodite met her second friend just a few seconds later and he's a cute boy and she gave him a kiss!"  Aphrodite protested while laughing "Hey you have to work fast in this town, or you might lose him to a princess!"  Aphrodite said while playfully messing up Astraea's hair and laughing with her “Besides, Dylan was a little shy and needed some loving so the girls could see what a catch he really is!"  Isis joined in the conversation and smiled when she said, "And speaking of princesses I met one named Gina!"  Astraea couldn't contain her enthusiasm and excitement “Oh mom, and she is the most beautiful African Princess I ever seen! she is as pretty as Princess Sarah Culberson Of Sierra Leone and she is quiet and shy like me!"

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     "Well sis, you're not too shy and quiet right now, but go on, ha-ha!"  Isis teased Astraea while laughing with her “Anyway, before I was so rudely interrupted, ha-ha!  we instantly adopted Princess Gina and Prince Dylan into our family, and we ate lunch together, had a mascara war with the kids in the cafeteria and everyone elected Isis to be the new Queen of the school!"  Isis had to correct her little sister, "Well temporary Queen, you see mom, I'm going to pass my title on to Gina very soon!"  Isis winked at Astraea and motioned for her to continue “Oh mom!  I wish you could have seen Gina's transformation; she was shy at first but when she hung around us for a little while she gained her confidence and she blossomed into a beautiful strong lady right before our very eyes!"  Aphrodite laughed "Yeah, we seem to have that effect on people!" Mom was overwhelmed with pride at what she was hearing from her children!

     "Oh, and we were having so much fun, but the bell rang, and we were late to our History class, and had to run as fast as we could, but snuck in without being noticed, and I placed and apple on our teachers desk.  Isis smiled at Astraea and said "Yeah, that PA announcement kind of saved us because everyone was falling asleep from that monotone voice over the intercom, so we discreetly found some chairs to sit in without anyone noticing our tardiness!"  Astraea teased back at Isis "Yeah but that monotone voice kind of sounded like your voice Isis" Isis laughed and teased back at her "Do you mean this voice?"  Isis said in a Dracula's voice while hissing and that made Astraea scream with laughter "Or this voice: Good, After, noon, students, the time is 12:30 pm, and now I have the pleasure of bringing you 3 hours of boring facts you know you want to hear" Isis said in a perfect monotone voice until she started laughing that is ha-ha!

     "Oh, I forgot to tell you, while we were running to class, we passed by Miss Counselor's car and she was sitting inside listening to the classical Satie Gymnopédie No.1 by French composer Erik Satie.  She looked sad, but we waved at her as we ran by and Aphrodite gave her a gift without her even knowing it, she gave Miss Counselor her most prized possession, Her magical compact mirror!"  Mom was shocked "But Aphrodite didn't that mirror belong to your family for generations!"  Aphrodite humbly responded, "Yes mom, but she needs my mirror more than I do so I gave it to her for a little while to keep until it made her happy!"

     "But why were you girls so late after school, your father had trouble finding you?"  Isis said "Oh sorry about that, you see we kind of made a mess in the cafeteria, so I asked our principal if me and the girls can stay after school to help Ruben clean up the cafeteria so he could go home early to his family, Ruben is a wonderful man that is our Custodian at school!  Mom could only say "Wow, you had such a busy day you made me tired just hearing about it!"  while laughing with the children.  "But the day's not over mom, it's just started ha-ha!"  Astraea said and right after they finished eating dinner Astraea excitedly said, "Quick everyone let's go outside the sun is about to set!"  and just as they went outside the sun set at 7:47 pm and it was the most majestical and magical moment that mom and dad ever saw as it set over lake Washington!

     Isis humbly went to mom and Dad to ask them a simple request:  "Mom, Dad, I know our religion is a little bit different than yours, but could we have the honor of joining you as our beautiful sun sets from our horizon?"  They smiled and took Isis hand; In fact, they all held hands, and joined as a family as the Sun set.  Just before the Sacred moment occurred though, Isis recited her most Sacred script during the Sun's grand departure from our Mother Earth.  ""Family, our Sun, the sustainer of Life, has to die every day, as it is doing now.  Remember the ones we lost, and the time that will come when it is our turn to cross over.  Day transitions into Night, Death overcomes Life, but fear not!  For tomorrow, Life will triumph over Death!  Our Sun will rise back up and bring back the life that was lost during the Night!  This is how it is and how it must be, for the billions of years before and the billions of years to come the Sacred Circle of our family is complete!"  Right after Isis recited her Ritual, the sun set in absolute Awe and Wonder as the family watched in utter amazement and silence when our Sun said it's final goodbye to them for the day!

     "You see mom, we always have a moment of silence, as our Sun departs from our Earth for the day.  It is a great reminder that we only have a limited number of Sun Sets to see in our lifetime!  It is a special, Sacred Occasion, to stop everything we're doing, and pay homage to our mortality.  That's why this moment is so special to us!"  Isis said while giving her mother a hug!

     Astraea added: "You know what happens after the sun sets don't you?"  Mom and dad both said "No?  What happens sweetie?"  Astraea responded with one of the biggest smiles on her face "Well, Both Young and Old become Children of the Night! ha-ha! now, wait for it, wait for it"  and almost on cue it was the still of the evening but out of nowhere the wind magically blew a strong beautiful gust in the family's direction and the girls ran and started playing in the twilight hours!  I don't know how Astraea managed to make such powerful winds blow, but she is the element of Air you know!  When the girls were playing  and running around the yard, they produced brooms out of thin air and started running all over the place trying to fly with them, but they just couldn't seem to take off into the air, but that didn't stop them from laughing as their parents watched them with love!

     So, in the midst of all the playing and laughter going around them, dad asked his wife "By the way mom, how was your day today?"  and mom said, "IT WAS MAGICAL!"