Family & Christmas

This year I've had the amazing opportunity to spend Christmas with my family in California. My second brother and his family arrived and so Christmas was had by two of my three brothers and their families and their in-laws, my parents and me. It really has been a great trip. Well worth it.

Of course I'll share some photos on there sooner or later. I don't have the opportunity to put pictures on my computer right now. However, one of the things I have been blessed to witness this holiday season, are the children. My nieces and nephews and just how grown they've become in their own individuality and as cousins bonding.

You know, there are definitely times this past week that I've been a little sad. Those nieces and nephews I've held and seen grow from infants to tweens, to teens, to young adults is at times overwhelming. There are moments when I think that IF I ever have the chance to have children, that they will be the only cousins their own ages, because everyone else will be so much older than them. It's strange to think that my oldest nephews are old enough to start having families of their own. Oh my goodness!

Anyway - enough of the sad talk of growing babies.

I hope all of you who are still reading this blog have had a wonderful Christmas this 2014! I'll share pictures later of the children putting on the Nativity (with the stylish throw-together costumes done by none-other than yours truly!), white elephant pictures of my nieces sulking from getting crummy gifts, to my cute little nephew who is having the telepathic conversations with me! I love looking at the pictures that he's showing of his adventures and his little complaints about his day! Oh the joy it's been!!!

I am truly best!

Have a safe and wonderful Christmas to one and all!

Much love and light, P~

Take Your Time... Sam Hunt

Okay my darling friends... I was turned on to this song by one of my battle buddies. He literally shut the song off of his computer because I started to get watery eyed. So silly..... But, he wasn't having it. Anyway, if I could have written a song that explained an experience I've had this past year, this would be it. Love and light!

Christmas in Hanalei...

Okay - maybe not in Hanalei, however, I thought it was a catchy title... sort of.

Anyway, I saw this picture online and feel in love with it. Hanalei Pier is one of my favorite places in the world. I have a lot of really great memories growing up on Kaua'i, and especially of going to Hanalei with my family.

Just wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Hope you all have a safe Holiday!

Much love and light,

Pili~

Recovering...

These past few days have been a blur. I remember working on the INCAP paperwork, then that's pretty much it. Today was a bit better though - I knew I could sleep in a little, however, I almost forgot that I had to work at the armory today. Geez. The packet that I turned in was quite large. I had tons of supporting documents stating that what I was going through and doing was true. I laid out the finances, all the times I had pain management done, when I worked and for how many hours, what I got paid etc. It was intense. However, it made me smile when my Admin person said it was the "prettiest" packet he's ever sent up. We didn't want to give the medical board any room for error or doubt.


Sad to say, yesterday, I slept through my alarm and missed my physical therapy. I know that I have physical therapy tomorrow, so I'll be up nice and early for that one.


It's quite a unique thing - being an intuitive healer, some times there are moments when I can only go so far in helping to heal and change myself for the better. Then, that's when I have to call friends or go to people who I know can help me in an unbiased way. Tonight was that night for me. A friend I met in May when I was taking my ThetaHealing DNA 1 & 2 teacher's certifications worked on me via the telephone tonight. We got through some huge stuff and she helped me to release some of the hate, anger, and resentments I held against people and the situation of being injured... more so that they doctors and medical board put on my records that I had/have an "altered mental status" and am not of "mental sound"... a.k.a. crazy. LMAO!


Anyway, after release quite a bit of that - I felt tons better. I also had to get help in changing my belief that I had to hold on to the injuries to prove that I was not "crazy". Now - if you ask me... that really does sound like a "crazy" and silly thing to do. ha ha ha ha


I am just glad that Nikki was there for me and got to help me. I have a feeling that these next few days I'll continue to shift, change, and heal.


Here's a little love quote for the day:





Love and light...

Overwhelmed...

It's 0201 and I'm a bit overwhelmed with the INCAP (equivalent to Workman's comp.) paperwork. This packet consist of 6 months of explaining finances, what happened to me when I got injured, why I can't perform my civilian job without pain, what I've been doing on my own to help with pain management, financial allotments, etc....

I've already broken down and cried - mainly because I think I'm just tired. After all, it is after 2 in the morning. (I'm here at work using two different computers to make this all happen.) I've got receipts strewn everywhere, scrap paper with numbers and figures of my finances, and the loss of finances because of unable to work, SOAP notes for massage therapy I've received, pictures from the Acupuncture I've received as well... it's quite the ordeal.

I even created a calendar with the work I've performed and all the treatments I've been receiving. It's pretty intense. I'm glad I've kept 3 calendars and they all coincide - made that part a little easier for me.

Anyway, I was about to put some stuff away when I looked in my little "Angel Numbers 101" book by Doreen Virtue. The time was 0201 when I looked at the clock, then looked that number up in my little book. This is what it said:

"201

You are co-creating the answers to your prayers with the words you say, think, and write. This is a message for you to choose loving and positive words so that your outcome is both loving and positive."

How appropriate, because right before that, I had my little mental melt down. ha ha ha

Blah... no worries.

Even though this is due tomorrow (I just got it late Friday), and I still have to run around and get SOAP notes from various places, I'm still smiling.

Love and light

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

Mr. Pili.... (lol)


How about... my darling friend?


Look up the title of this post, then let me know your thoughts.


Love and light...

I'm Still Alive....

I had PT (physical therapy) this past Tuesday. It was my first of many visits. Long story short, we are hoping that it's only my biceps tendon that is out of the groove in the shoulder instead of something more drastic. Doing therapy on my own and having to cross-friction the tendon that is "out" of place to try to coax it to go back in.... is not very fun. The swelling and irritation, of what we're wanting it to do, sometimes makes me want to hit people for no reason! LOL


Seriously, when Dr. Liddle was working on my shoulder, I got teary eyed and noticed I had tears rolling down my cheek. I was having an emotional release. She also asked me why I waited so long to have work done on it - 1. I had a previous negative experience with another doctor, and 2. I didn't have the funds to pay out of pocket for it.


Tomorrow I have another PT appointment in the morning, then I'm on the table to get a massage to work the other muscles around the right shoulder, and then it's a mini spa day for one of my clients. I love what I do, and I'm also excited that my life is taking more of a turn into doing more energy work.


Okay - I'm about to start talking bubbles. I am going to bed. Even though I have 9 hours until it's time to wake up, I have a feeling I'm going to need it! ha!


Love and light,


XOXOXOXO (it was nice to hear your voice)

Dr.'s & Shoulder...

Today I went to the Orthopaedics to FINALLY have my right shoulder checked by the doctor.... I know... surprise, surprise. It was a little weird to go there. I started having anxiety, my hands were shaking, I couldn't put some things together while looking at my intake forms, and it took me just about 30 minutes to get it done. (It was only 5 pages. lol)


Long story short, I had to do some muscle testing on myself to find out why I was feeling uneasy. Well, it's because I believed that "ALL DOCTORS were evil", and that this "doctor will treat me like the last doctor" I saw in Boise. I had to release that and download myself with the belief that "all doctors are NOT evil, and that I could have the discernment on who I should be seen by." When the shift and change was happening in my body, I started to feel peaceful. I was letting go of the resentment I had from the previous doctor, and opening my heart that this new doctor might be able to help me. It was fantastic.


So, what did we find? Well, we were able to take an x-ray and find that there might be a separation of the acromion and clavicle tendon. However, we won't know for a little while. But, I do have biceps tendonitis/INFLAM, and get to start my physical therapy next week Tuesday.


I had to really think why it took me so long to get into the doctors.... and, here is what it came down to:


1. Fear of not finding anything wrong and proving the other doctor right when he said I had/have an "Altered mental status" - basically, "Crazy".


2. Fear of having to pay for all of the medical bills out of pocket.


3. And, I think part of it was a fear of getting better.... then that would mean that I am wrong with knowing how I feel/felt.


Man alive - I really had to release those beliefs, because they were not serving me in my Highest and Best.


Do you believe that we can be held back from achieving things like... GREATNESS, because we have beliefs that tell us or teach us otherwise? Who the crap needs those kinds of thoughts or beliefs to run their lives like that? It's so debilitating.


I am so thankful that I have been blessed with tools for life that I have been taught. It has breathed fresh air for me where I've felt so stuck and stagnant in old beliefs, habits, mind process that isn't always good.


Anyway, my darling friends and family, I love you all.


Much love~

Beautiful Dance....

Here's a lovely Bachata danced to John Legend's song, and one of my favorites: "Tonight". Hope you all enjoy.

Mini Spa Day

This past Saturday I was able to do a mini spa day for a client and her friend. It was nice because the client I worked on had never had a massage before. This was her first experience. We first started them with an introduction to the room the massage was going to be held, and the products available to create their own mud detoxing product. Then it was the massage with hot towels, mud application then wipe down, and ending the experience with a 15 minute relaxation time in the infrared sauna.

I hope you all enjoy some of the pictures. I attempted to capture the essence of the place but they don't do it any justice. Much love and light, XOXOXOXO

A small view of the various products. i.e. Kelp, Bentonine clay, coffee etc.

Various mud application carrier for the mud product creation.

View of various essential oils for the clients to choose from as part of their service or mud application.

A small sample of a ready made product (Mediterranean Algae)

Various angles of the massage room.

Another view of the base carriers, oils, and detox products/mixtures.

Change

I was looking for a quote to put on my website - something inspirational, perhaps about change, perhaps about life, or even healing. This last week I have been loving guided to step into more of my intuitive role and follow my path as an energy work.


Change - at time it may be scary, but man alive, instead of pushing against it and pray for it not to happen, I've been asking God to help me and give me strength in the process. So, I hope you enjoy this quote by Tolstoy and take it to heart.... change first has to start with self.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

Out of State Adventure

Well, just found out yesterday that I'll be on a little adventure in October. It'll be nice to get away for a few days. Anyone want to guess where? Does anyone care? Ha ha ha....

Love and light,
XOXOXOXO

Beautiful Quote on Life

A few months ago I was looking at a unique magazine that had wonderful quotes. This particular one stood out to me as it was something that I was struggling with... "my purpose in life". At times I feel like I have to have this huge mission in life to make a large impact on the world, when in actuality, I just have to be me.


By each of our acts of kindness, love, being who we are in the world.... it's enough. We are enough. By our small every day living we have the chance to impact lives. Some times it's the lives that are closest to us that we impact the most, and mean the most to us. For example: children, students, colleagues, the mailman/woman, the UPS person, the Starbucks cashier, the little old lady down next door, the person taking your order at Chick-fil-A. A kind word, smile, expression of gratitude goes a long way.


Most importantly, being kind to ourselves can have the biggest impact on the world.


Love yourself. Love who you are. Love who you are becoming. Love that each day is a new day. Love that you all are loved by me. Love that you are all loved by your higher source.... God, Buddha, Allah, Heavenly Father, Source, Creator, Great Spirit....


Above all, know that you deserve and are enough to receive that love.


Much love and light....


XOXOXOXO

One of my Favorite Songs. ...

I've always had a fond connection with this song growing up, but it really became a favorite when I was overseas and sang it for a Karaoke night. It felt good to let go and release a bunch of crap I was holding on to. Yesterday, I was listening to some music and heard this version.  I was in love with it all over again. It's funny how some songs find their way back to you when you need them.

This morning I had a chiropractic appointment and got to use a machine that fired my muscles into tension and release. It felt great and my muscles around my shoulder were still firing afterward. THEN,  when it was time to be seen by the doc. ... well, he almost made me cry several times! Apparently my body is more bent out of shape than I thought.  This past week has been proving that. Ugh. So, right now I'm in the infrared sauna at work to heat up my body then I'll ice my shoulder again.

Love and light.

Children....

These past few days I have been baby sitting again. It's been quite interesting. I had forgotten how children to have a mind of their own and will at times test your buttons. It's funny.

Tonight I was able to pick the children up early right after school and while I was cooking dinner, they were out playing, and then I had them help me make a throw together dessert of some kind of apple crumble. I even got to talk to one of the neighborhood children's dad who was taking Aryana (the oldest girl I'm watching) to a family BBQ and for a sleepover. It's been cool but strange at the same time to be "mommy" these past few days. Cooking, dishes, laundry, showers, disciplining,  and now movie time... Even the children tell their teacher's or after school leaders that I'm their babysitter - "Miss Pili", or "this is my mama Pili - she's really nice".

With all the attitude and yelling that growing/opinionated children have..... at the end of the day, they're still cute kiddos. I'm thankful for the time I got to watch them.

Okay - back to watching "Rio".

Love and light.

Meaty....

A friend sent this to me and I laughed so hard. Soooooo true! I'm learning to love my curves more and more. After all, "it's all about the bass".... hope you all have a great laugh and smile when you read this. And for crying out loud - women..... EMBRACE YOUR INNER CURVACIOUSNESS!!!!

Still Awake

I woke up this morning about 2am.... it's now 345am. Yesterday I got a massage and also had acupuncture done. My body is hurting - definitely didn't drink enough water throughout the day. Ugh!

I've also been listening to old voice mail messages on my phone. Well, at least one or two.

Catch up and Dress up...

Yesterday was kind of fun. .... Jasmine and I went to try on a few dresses for the Breaking Boundaries event in December. The dresses were gorgeous. There even some white wedding dresses that weren't your stereotypical kind of dresses that were rad to try in. I wish I took a picture of the single strap dress. A lady said that it reminded her of a Grecian goddess!

Saw this dress and thought I'd try it on. I was having a little trouble taking a self portrait. ... hence the hand in the hip.....

Loved this dress! By the way, I ended up finding a beautiful simple green dress for $5.80 (taxes included)!!! I'll post a picture of it on here soon.

My hair about 30 minutes before snip-snip....

Went in for a trim,  and came out with short hair!!!! it's been over 5 years since I've had short hair. Love it, but whoa..... what a change! Lol

Grilled this past Friday or Saturday. .... anyway - it was soooooooo yummy!

Magnolia and "Bridges of Madison County"

This weekend I played a silly "masterpiece" board game where each player gets to buy pieces of art which consisted of famous paintings throughout the world. Well, there was one piece of art that struck a chord and I bought it with my play money for 6 million dollars.... Here is what it was:

Silly as it may seem - it held me in such a trance that I often caught myself staring at this little piece of art and my heart and mind would wonder to its origin of thought. It was a beautiful feeling.


I also got to watch the movie "The Bridges of Madison County". Goodness - if it didn't reflect the feelings of my heart! Not only is the soundtrack wonderful, but the overall feel of the movie is fantastic! There were two lines in the movie that I absolutely loved:


1. "Old dreams are good dreams, and although they didn't work out, I'm still glad I had them"...
2. "This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime"....


****sigh****


My darling - if you're reading this, I've thought/missed/loved you all weekend. Please know, that no matter where our paths go - I will always love you.


Love and light,
XOXOXOXO

All about the bass..... vintage style

Oh my goodness - I found this about 5 minutes ago! If y'all have heard the original (of which I love), you might find this interesting and cool. Lol...

By the way, "I'm all about that bass"....

Poultice, Castor Oil, and Giggles.....

So, this turd looking beef patty really isn't either of those.... A turd or beef patty. And most importantly,  I wouldn't be putting it on my body if it was! As some of you may now, when I went to annual training for the military this past July, I ended up injuring my shoulder and my ankle. (Both on the left side of my body.  Ugh!) I can't express enough how much and constant these two pains have been. Let's just saw that it makes taking in massage clients when you hurt during their session and have inflammation afterward.

But - getting back to the brown crap on my shoulder.... lol This is actually a poultice we made to help draw things out and to help in the facilitation of helping it heal. It consisted of: honey (used to bind the ingredients), cinnamon (reduce inflammation- sort of - and increase blood flow), sulphuric salt, and dried comfrey.  Yes, it was weird to make, and it was even more weird to have put on my shoulder and ankle! But at least it smelled good!So weird looking, huh?!?!?!

The next few pictures are my shoulder and ankle wrapped in castor oil soaked rags that were heated and then placed over the poultice. The castor oil is really good at drawing out impurities and an all around great homeopathic healer.

I felt ridiculous! 

My attempt at a sad face. Lol

Ah! At last, here are two baby sunflowers - twins- that look like they are giggling. Jasmine pointed it out to me and said "let me show you our sunflowers!" I loved it. From our view, it actually looked like they were also holding hands.

One Love and light to everyone!

Music of the Heart....

Yesterday I spent the day sleeping. Pretty much all day. I got worked on (Energy work) the night before and so yesterday was a much needed rest. Today has been nice. Just at work working on updating the website for the International Institute of Massage Therapy and decided to listen to some music. Here are some of the songs and videos that stood out to me.

Love and light to everyone on your journey...

Another Great ThetaHealing® Class....

As many of you know, or don't know, I am a ThetaHealing® practitioner and certified instructor for Basic DNA, Advanced DNA, and Manifesting and Abundance. I am also an adjunct/substitute teacher for the International Institute of Massage Therapy school here in Idaho Falls. Well, this week, a great teacher, sister, and friend, Katie Lamb from Touch of Hope, came to teach the Basic DNA class to a few of the massage students. Since becoming certified as an instructor, I had not taught or been in a class again until this past week. Man alive - I have to say that it was such a joy to be able to be in her class and be a teacher's assistant. To be able to view the class from an instructor's point of view was amazing.


For myself, I was able to better relate to the students with whichever exercise we were doing and helped to explain the concepts or work one-on-one with them. It's pretty neat to see the subtle and big changes that they were undergoing this week... one belief at a time.


If I may get a little vulnerable, some of the things that I was able to have a hard look at was myself,... the kinds of things I was creating in my life, my relationships with people, where I see or put value in, if I valued myself, and manifesting the things I want in my life and know that I can get them, deserve them, and worthy to have them in my life now.


A few weeks ago I posted about the Sagan Diary and what one of my favorite lines were, which spoke about fear... which is really a fear of being without. Well, this past week, I have been inundated with that fear. The fear of without someone, and feeling like something changed with our connection. After this week, I feel that it's okay if that connection was only for a little while. I've learned so much, and have loved bigger and better than I have ever done before. I just feel a little stifled in how I can love someone... between the hours of 8am - 430pm Monday - Friday. I'm not afraid to be alone or to have someone love me. With the full moon coming up on Monday - I'm not making any major decisions in my life right now.... but there will come a day... probably soon, that choices of release or allowing will have to happen.


Until that time, I'm going to continue working on my beliefs and healing myself from the inside out.


Blah - thanks everyone for reading my ramblings.


Love and light.

Labor Day happenings...

I spent yesterday babysitting again, and took them to the mountains to go huckleberry picking. Sad to say - it's the end of huckleberry picking season and with the amount of rain we've been inundated with there were little to no berries. However,  I was able to snap a couple of nice pictures. Hope you all enjoy!

Here's Teagan digging to China! Jk....  She heard the badgers crawling and wanted to get them. She was biting away the earth.

Here is No-gard.... The bearded dragon. He came and hung out with us. Literally. Lol

I love these next few pictures of the dandelions. I couldn't help myself - they were so beautiful!!!!! It reminded me of the Disney movies -  "Tinker Bell". Love it!!!!

Loved this scene of the tree stump and the flowers. It almost felt whimsical and fairy tale like.

I saw Autumn sitting in the back if the truck using her festival parasol to shade her while she ate her snacks. I took the opportunity to snap this quick picture of her feet propped up. It was so cute..... AND her umbrella was rad as well.

Jasmine and Nacole unearthing a tree that was growing out of the side of a hill. Heave ho!

Little Dominic wanted to get in on it as well.

Work or Off for Labor Day?

I'm still awake - sleeping at the facility tonight as to get to a friend's home to babysit her children tomorrow morning.


Today was nice, I was able to do two massages, but my shoulder was hurting after the first one. Sad to say, the second one was still good, but I had to do some Thai stretching and other things as to not engage my shoulder. It was nice to work a little again, even though the first one was a 2 hour complimentary/"Thank you for your patience and understanding" massage while I've spent most of the summer away for military.


Anyway, I pick the children up again tomorrow and then are off to go huckleberry picking! YAY!!! I haven't been huckleberry picking since 2006. Kind of sad! But what can I say, I didn't really get out much before.


If any of you have to work tomorrow, I hope your employers pay you time and a half, and if not - enjoy your day in the sun with family and friends.


Much love and light.


XOXOXOXO

Another Song...

I was going to put another fun list of songs... just this one will have to do. It's just a song that feels good... AND, I love this version. Don't read into it. LOL


Just A Fool - Cover 


XOXOXOXO

Naked Pictures!!!!!

Totally kidding people. No naked pictures, but my entire back and neck is exposed. I was the class hands-on demo person. It rocked and felt so good.

I love taking Continuing Education classes. Each class makes me a better person, or in my case- a used and abused person.  Lol.... just kidding. Here are a few pictures of me getting Gua Sha and cupping done.

By the way..... it's supposed to look like this... A little anyway.  The red spotted color shown indicates stagnation. The darker/purple the color - the longer the stagnation has been there in the area.

My Silence...

Today has been somewhat of an emotional day. It started last night with the call from one of my brothers indicating that I would probably get one of my nephews. (I believe I wrote part of that on the previous post.)


Last night I had a dream that a change was coming. One that I didn't know about or had not anticipated. Not sure what that will be.


Just a little stressed today. Feeling the weight of everything on me... the choices I have to make, where to move, medical stuff, to close my practice or not... Where I am, who I am, where do I feel safe and like me, military issues... the list could go on...


I did, however, get to take the first part of my 2 day class learning about different acupressure points on the body and their whole body association. It was quite delightful. I think, I was also triggered emotionally because now I have a lot of anger coming up that I feel like I'm suppressing. Waiting for the right moment to explode. It's a strange feeling.


Anyway, if I am silent on here for the next few days, it's not that I'm ignoring anyone or am hiding anything.... I just need some time to get my life a little in order.


So, I'll go off the grid for a little while and embrace my personal silence.
XOXOXOXO

Fighting, Yelling, Swimming, Time Outs, and Reunited

Well.... The title says it all! I baby sat again today and oh my! I don't know how I did it. I had to speak several times and raise my voice twice. How you mothers handle the arguing, fighting, yelling, pinching, hitting, biting.... I almost wanted to pin children up by their toes. Apparently I have a trigger when children start sassing, backing talking A LOT (continuously while I'm still attempting to talk), or when the start hitting each other while we're in a moving car and there's no place for me to pull over! Lol..... Oh goodness!

I think what about made me flip my lid was when one if the children twisted the other's arm and then put her hand over his mouth! I swear to Buddha It took everything in my power to not spout a potty mouth word and treat her like I would one of my Soldiers. That was definitely one of my raised voices moments and told her that was unacceptable.... that she could be upset and mad but was NOT allowed to do that to her brother who was almost 4 years younger. Blah! I honestly have to laugh about it or I'd burst out in teats or something.

Needless to say,  it was a rough day. Especially a rough morning. But moving on!

While the children finished whatever Netflix they were watching when I arrived, I prepared the lunch for the day and felt pretty proud of myself. (I even got some puppy commands training in with the scraps of human food I snuck them.) I wish I took a picture of all the treats and lunch I made. The children were so excited that they got their own lunch/goodie bag. I also had a bag with lunch and goodies. In theirs they had the following: peanut butter, honey, and jelly sandwich, carrots, and green and red grapes. In my bag I carried their left over pizza, extra carrots,  nectarines,  another sandwich, and a large container of cut up watermelon. Man, talk about yummy!!!!! Today at the pool rocked because the babies weren't complain that they wanted to leave because they were hungry.  Phew! Brownie points for me!

This evening I went and saw an old friend who moved to Oregon but was in town visiting for the week. It was really nice to see her and to also see some of my old friends I had gone to church with years ago. One of them I didn't know got married, another couple I hadn't seen since their second child was an infant and now they are expecting baby number 3 in a couple of weeks.... just so weird! I must admit, I found my comfort place at the grill. One of the other girls didn't know how to grill meat.... It was almost appalling. (Honey - I know you think that's hilarious that I was grilling "meat" even though I went on that week of giving up meat.... but yes, "I grilled" burgers and hot dogs, and even ate the meat. Yummy!!!!!! LOL)

It was a really nice little evening of catching up with old friends from years ago and seeing where people are in their lives now.

Tomorrow I am getting a massage (oh darn) and then will be in class. This weekend I am taking some CEU (continuing education unit) classes from my co-worker who is an acupuncturist.  He'll be teaching on accupressure, gua sha,  and cupping. I'm super excited!

Oh, and on a random note. ... I may be getting my nephew to help him with some recovery stuff. Who knows. Anyway. ... One Love! Happy happy!!!!!

Long Day

On Tuesday I  suggested to the children that we make their mom dinner on Wednesday night, so after a long and somewhat chilled day we made dinner. For the dessert I decided that I'd make this awesome grape  salad loaded with tons of sugar that is both yummy and would definitely hype up the children. The oldest helped me wash and dry the grapes and wanted to "draw a surprise" with the grapes. She asked how to spell my name and her you go!  She especially loved that she had enough grapples to put a heart at the end of my name. That was too cute!

I gave the children a dollar each in quarters (that's all the cash I had on me) and for lunch we had pizza, salad, and I was definitely entertained by watching the children have fun and play games or get treats. It was especially entertaining watching Dominic play. He didn't need money to be entertained. He just played on everything anyway.

What would be a dinner without making chipmunk cheeks with the grapes?!? It was so much fun. I'm glad I was able to reach far enough away to get everyone in the photo.  This us one if my favorite pictures for sure!!!!! Happy chubby cheeks!

Dominic was such a great helper mixing the secret ingredients for the dessert. I think he especially liked it when some of it would get on his arm or hands. That meant he got to stop and lock it off.

Although my day started with getting up at 515am, I'm glad the children didn't really wake up until 9 am. That gave me about an hour and a half nap before we were up and at 'em. Breakfast was oatmeal with molasses and organic raspberry flavoring. .. yummy! I had Aryana, the oldest, help me make breakfast.

Then,  we got ready and headed to my work facility where Trent, Jasmine's husband, watched and played with the children for an hour and a half, while I got to get a massage for a massage final. (Oh darn, right?!? Lol)

After we left the facility it was lunch time.... hence the pizza and game picture above. Took them to Papa Tom's where the pizza is amazing!

Once they children were done eating and playing around we headed to the museum where we got to look at the exhibit "Race to the End of the Earth". It was really neat to see how the Norwegian and British teams raced to claim victory to be the first people to get to the South Pole. The trials and hardships they went through was immense! I know from my background and training that I could almost survive everywhere, but to build an entire underground village under ice, and to consistently live in -112° weather for at least 6 months is craziness.  I definitely had a lot of respect for those men that went. I really enjoyed watching the children ooh and aah over the things they were seeing and experiencing. It reminded me of my sister - in - law Foeata and my brother, Keoki, because they home school their children and take them on all kinds of adventures like the one I did with my kiddos. It was fun.

Oh.... quick funny story. Well, I thought it was funny. We went grocery shopping after the museum so we could get the ingredients to make dinner, and Autumn was hanging on the cart by her brother. Well, you know what happens when siblings are in each other's space.... someone's going to end up crying, and it wasn't going to be me. Lol!!!! Well, not quite sure what happened but I turned to see Dominic latched on to Autumn's arm in a full mouth teeth grip and she's bursting into tears. My instant reaction has a nail flick to the arm and a stern "No biting". Dominic looked at me with shock and started crying really loud. I didn't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for him. Long story short. .. There were these other mother's around us staring with the "poor thing" look on their face. Part of it I don't think it was for the children, but more for me! A single woman in a GROCERY store with 3 children. Yeah..... I think the pitty look was for me.

Anyway. ... The dinner and day was a success. NAcole needed that special dinner and surprise when she got home. It was a hard depressing day for her at work.

Today is my last day watching the children and we're going to the pool.... allllllll day! Wish me luck!

P.S. My darling..... I love you.  XOXOXOXO

Barely 10am...

Well.... day three of the mommy sitter.... lol.... I thought most of you would like to see the little adventure I've been on all before 10am this morning. The only picture not on here is the one when purple nail polish was spilled in my hair. Oh yes indeed! Lol 

This is where the parrot but me. ... it almost became lunch.

The results of a 6 year old imagination of what "pretty feet" look like. Lmao

The results of a 7 year old. Pink nails with purple dots, lines, and swirls.