February Happenings #2

....well we almost made it to the gym today, but I finally had to say no and possibly error on the side of caution, but I just didn't feel like Retta was really up to it. I guess all the cool new gym stuff will just continue to lay in the back of the truck taunting us....Retta is a little better..but is a slow process..now we have our eyes set on a Chinese New Years celebration with friends on Thursday. Keep your fingers crossed.

Several weeks ago Musa and Retta spent the whole day playing Army. They even requested to eat "beans or some other gross Army food"..so I served beans and stale bread, which they ate, huddled up in the tower, keeping a look out for the enemy. This was the most cooperative game they have plyed together in ages. Go figure...a war game causing cooperation. Childhood is sooooo interesting.

I did feel very protected, with the Army and all...

February Happenings

Although little has been documented on a daily basis, we have been very busy involving ourselves in a potpourri of activities, observations and challenges and even a birthday celebration. We have played and read and watched new movies....mostly indoor activities as the cold wind has even prooven to be too much for my Montana bones. We made it to the indoor gym at Somers Rec Center in LaPlata one Tuesday, even went and bought all sorts of neat balls and equipment...to then find ourselves not being able to attend the last two Tuesdays. Retta is sick with a bronchial virus...a nasty thing...so it looks like tomorrow the new equipment will once again lay in the back of the truck. Drats!

Musa had a great birthday (according to him). He opened his presents here with the family and then we met Anna and Tyrus for dinner. Anna passed on her Culinary Arts textbook to Musa and he was thrilled (once he had time to calm down and sit and look at it). He has also joined an On-line cooking club. We are anxiously waiting for our materials to come in the mail so we can officially get started. With all of our yummy organic produce we have delivered every week from doortodoororganics, we are hoping to come up with some yummy creations.

He was  also thrilled to get a yoga tape for kids (from Aunt Carla) and has already tried it once. He got a digital camera and had fun with it on the way to dinner! He was also officially accepted into the School of Dragonology...he received the coursebook, tracking guide, model of a dragon, the book Eragon (so proud of the young author) and the Eragon PC game. There were all sorts of other neat gifts, cards and emails from all the people in his life who love and care for him.

To be continued.....

Cell phone minutes and dress up day

What a silly day this was. I had just come home from the hospital and was lying in my bed trying to escape the negative energies that suround hospitals. We were all sort of coming down from a long period of stress, worry and sensory overload. Retta is very into her "Groovy Girl" collection and we were lying on my bed playing with the dolls and re-connecting. Suddenly, the bed quilt became an ice cave and the Groovy Girls were trapped. Retta tried to call for help but....because they are so very groovy....the girls had used up all of their cell minutes. How does a girl call for help without a cell phone????

Soon we were screeching from the room, "Help, Help we need cell minutes, or fire trucks or something...the girls are trapped."

The next thing I know, Anna (my dear sweet angel of a dtr who stayed and nutured Musa and Retta, while I was away)....came running into the room , dressed in layers from Retta's dress up trunk.....yelling...."Help my babies are trapped."

We laughed and laughed...that deep soul resounding laugh that heals loved ones in ways words don't describe. It heals deeper than prayer, deeper than spritual breathing....it is pure joyful release....amongst those that you love and trust.

So...although this might not mean a thing to many of you out there...I wanted to save the moment...freeze frame history and be able to look back in the coming years and remember what a ride this life has been. (and I had to show off Anna's headgear...which is actually an old pair of silk MC Hammer pants!)

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Tags: MC Hammer, Healing, Groovy Girls