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.