My Son's 22nd Birthday

Just had an awesome day celebrating my son's 22nd birthday with him and his two sisters.  Since I am divorced, and he doesn't have a relationship with his Dad, I am the only Parent, and major adult influence in his life.  He has always been so independent though, baking cakes alone at seven years old, making his own food at ten years old.  When I was divorced, my three children had to go back and forth from my home to their Dad's, every other night, and they all grew up very fast.

Being with my three children, my own family, is always so powerful for me, now that I live alone.  To be around my loved ones, the ones I gave birth to, and bond, talk, guide, and comfort one another, is the best I can get right now, without living with them.  There is nothing more important to me than my three children, and nothing more important or fun than being with them!  And now that they all live in separate homes, we don't always get to be together at the same time.  But, just for that day, we got together in his new apartment, cooked, and had an awesome Birthday dinner for my son!  My son just became the happy owner of a baby Siberian Husky, who is so gorgeous with those beautiful blue eyes.  My one daughter is a dog trainer, who's boyfriend is an amazing dog trainer, who works with Cesar Milan, The Dog Whisper.  She was very helpful in training him, and at only three months old he listens to commands, and will stay in his place when asked!  He is already being walked for 1-2 hours a day!  My son is so amazing with him, and I am so proud of him!  

It is also so important for my three children to be together, as they need each other as well. It is always good to catch up on things, on life, on issues, on anything!  Anything to keep that bond going, you have to communicate, and now my kids are so busy, that is harder to find!

It was so comforting to be around my three children, and hear them reminisce of the past, their childhood, but this time it was happy things!  Usually when the past memories come up, they are sad, painful ones, due to the Divorce and the issues still going on with their Dad who has not been a healthy soul for many years.  Comfort, that is what I feel when I am with them and leave.  I feel comforted by their love, comforted by the innate connection we have with one another, comforted by the connection and communication.  
Things changed so fast for me, all of a sudden they were all out of the home, and I was left alone in the dark.  Now it is two years later, and yes, the pain of them gone has lessened, but I still have days where I cry missing them, wishing we were still all together.  That is why I want my home on the ocean, a beach house where I can look at the ocean every single day, and my children, friends, and family, can come and stay, and laugh and enjoy the moments together!  And I can stay home and create, write, draw, and paint!  And so it is!
Love and Blessings to all!

Giving Thanks!

So it's Thanksgiving time, truly a time to stop what you are doing and give thanks!  Give thanks to anything and everything, and for me I have so much to give thanks for, as last year during this time I was in a pretty low place living with my brother, being in so much pain all the time. 
I still am in pain, but I now have my own place, and it is down the shore! You can't beat that, only for having that house on the ocean that I want, filled with my children, family, and friends coming and going all the time.  And I have three wonderful, amazing, loving, compassionate children that still enjoy seeing me, and sharing holidays with me.  
Thanksgiving has changed for me and my children the past few years, having some family issues on my side.  It's all good, just shows that our energies are changing, shifting, and I release and let it all go in love and light.  I do not take situations like that personal anymore, and cry and ask, why me?  Now it's more like, okay, no problem, all the work I am doing on myself is working, I am shifting, only to a higher vibration, and it is all good.  It is all great, actually.  
So, yesterday I had Thanksgiving Dinner with my son and one daughter, and it was a beautiful day.  I have six brothers, a huge family, with lots of children, and love 20 plus people around on holidays, so only a few is totally different.  But I realized how blessed I am to be with my children, my small family, and glad they love me and want to be with me.  I am pretty much all they have as a parent, as their Dad is out of the picture for now, not very healthy, and we send him prayers of love and light daily, along with his three year old daughter, that we all love dearly!
I had a great Thanksgiving day, we had it at my son's new apartment, he just moved in a few months ago.  I cooked all day, while he attended to his new, adorable, husky puppy!  
       It was a truly nice, calm, happy day, as my son is usually pretty happy and positive with me.  My oldest daughter came and had dinner with us, my other daughter decided to spend it with her boyfriend and his family again.  We had the regular traditional menu we always have, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cavatelli, string bean casserole, and of course the cranberry sauce.  We made awesome stuffed mushrooms with creamed cheese, and and awesome spinach dip with artichokes and water chestnuts, for appetizers, they were both so good! I baked apple pie and chocolate pudding pie for dessert, and made organic rice pudding as well.  
My oldest daughter hung out for a few hours, loved the puppy, and then left.  I stayed awhile longer, and didn't get home until 10:30, totally exhausted.  Woke up today pretty tired, decided to just chill out, rest and stick around here.  I ran an errand and got some more Christmas shopping done, and it was pretty quiet around here for black Friday, it truly is a different way of life than Bergen County!  

Tea Party with Angel Readings

I held an Angel Card Reading event, in a Tea Shop yesterday, and what a wonderful experience it was, raising the energy and vibration of all!  What a better way to receive guidance from the Angels,  to sit and have some healing tea and sweets, bond with like minded souls, and talk with the Angels!  Beautiful, loving, energy around!  What a wonderful experience it was for me, and I had so much fun.  I felt as if I was hanging out with all my best friends, all of us growing and sharing our light! 

The owner wasn't sure who would attend, as we did not have anyone register, so we had no idea how the night would go.  Then, one by one, women appeared, and I went into my own private room do to the readings.  We all have Spirits around us, Angels, our own Guardian Angels, etc., and they want to help guide us along our way, but we need to ask for their help.  Through the readings, the clients resonate with the messages given, leaving them with a sense of support, comfort and courage to move ahead, knowing they have Angels all around them wanting to help.    
I started the readings, going into a separate room, leaving the women with a young woman speaking about teas and herbs, it was a perfect match.  
The readings were so beautiful, each one in tune with what the client was asking.  In my second reading while shuffling the deck, Archangel Michael came popping out, (always a sign of importance when a card pops out!) and fell onto the floor, obviously wanting to come through.  The client was shocked and amazed that it was Archangel Michael, because she feels very connected to him, and told me she put an intention out before she came, and asked Archangel Michael to come through!  There are no coincidences, only synchronicities! It doesn't get any clearer than that!  

It still amazes me each time, how the messages that need to come through do!  Some women keep quiet more than others about their issues, problems, etc., and that's fine, but the more open the individual is with their pain, the more the Angels can help guide them through their issues and help.  The more we talk and the client opens up, more messages come through, so it is important to be open, as it is not about anyone reading their future, as you should never give that power away to anyone.  

As I walked out of my room after the first reading, I saw about ten women gathering, sharing themselves, bonding, connecting and having tea together.  They were sharing knowledge about herbs, teas, Angels, Spirits, and the messages that came through for them.  They were loving and supporting one another and didn't even realize the importance of it, and as I walked into that room, my heart was filled with so much love, gratitude and appreciation.   Women that did not even know each other prior to this, all getting together because they are all searching, searching for answers in their life, searching for self love, self acceptance, and understanding.  And here, in that space they found it.  They found it from the love and acceptance from the Angels above, and from the Angels that walk among us.  I am sure each one left with a lighter, happier heart guiding their way, and I am grateful for being part of this experience.  
My last reading was beautiful and perfect.  After the reading the woman looked at me and said, "Are you always this happy and positive?"  Wow, if you knew me years ago, you would realize what a compliment that is, but even more so, I told her what a soul sister once shared with me, "The light you see in me, is only a reflection of the light you see within yourself".  Powerful, beautiful, it was powerful then, and still is now, and so beautiful to hear especially if we are suffering in any way.  
I did not arrive home until 10:30, and I was so wired I could not relax, and had to speak to someone, so I phoned my son.  We talked awhile, and I was so excited and happy about the event, sharing this all with him.  The energy I felt from the Angels and the women, was the energy I use to feel years ago, back in College or High School days, when those friends fill you up with love and joy and you don't even realize it.  I was happier, lighter, and felt my heart open even more, leaving me content and in peace. I was grateful, very grateful, and thanked the Angels for their loving guidance that night.  
This is the beauty of giving and serving for the good of all.  We all have the opportunity to learn, grow, evolve, and it is much easier when we have the love and support of others.  Many are alone, many feel alone, and it is so important to bond, connect and come together now.  It does help having the faith to know we all have help from the Angels above, guiding us each and every moment, and all we have to do is ask for their help.  

And by our gathering, which started out as a Tea Party with Angel Card Readings, we helped to raise the energy and consciousness of all, as we are all one, all connected, and when one is uplifted, we all are!

A New Season Again

So much happening, as I am trying to create a new life here, in a new place again.  It's amazing how each season brings thoughts from the past, the past to where I was last year during this time.  The time is the fall, a new season here down the shore.  It is awesome and amazing to be down here, as it seems, anytime of the year, it is better than being anywhere else in Jersey.  Except up North with my children, if they wanted to live with me, but they don't, they are on their own, not wanting to come back home with Mom.  
To see the Ocean each day, never gets old, it is still a miracle and blessing each day.  It feels as if the ocean has something to say, so much to say to each of us, with it's soothing sound, or rough chaos!
I love bare feet, and don't appreciate the cold, so this time of year is always an adjustment.  But, I am getting there.  I am trying to focus on gratitude each and every day, and we all have so much to be grateful for!  And last year this time I did not have my own place down the shore as I do now! Amen!  And I want my home on the Ocean with loved ones in it so I can be in peace each and every day! 
Connecting with loved ones is really important for me I see now, as living alone gets pretty lonely.  To not have a daily contact from a human in the morning for a "Good Morning!", or at night for a "Good Night!", and a hug here and there!  I took that for granted, and love people around, I always did!  Love those hugs, they are so awesome, so comforting for sure! 
The home with loved ones in and out all day, each and every day, celebrating anytime something special comes up!  Just loving to be together, get together and hang out, enjoying one another's company and energy!  It is all about energy, and it we can feel it.  When I am around loved ones, and I come home, and am alone, I still feel that love around me and it comforts me so!!  These are feelings I have always realized, but not to this extent!  It really is so cool, that is why it is so important to be careful who you allow in your space!! 
 Now when I get sad about the past I cry a few tears, then let it go, and mindfully focus on something good, something happy, something to be grateful for, and then what I want my life to be!
Do we ask ourselves each day what we want?  What truly makes us happy along our path of growth?  Even if you are happy, now what?  Where do we go from here?  What is our life purpose?  How could we serve?  Anything we put out comes back, what type of world do we want to create?  How do we want to feel about our choices each day?  Love or fear, that is what it comes down to, and guess what?  We can not be in a place of love and fear at the same time, they are truly opposite vibrations, so stay in love and let the rest go!! It is up to us to control our own mind, and become more aware and conscious of our choices!  We have the power to change the world, and we truly are, just open your eyes to love, and focus on that!  The suffering is gone, the victim hood over.  It is a different time, a different reality, one with love, forgiveness and an open heart!  
We did it, we tipped the scale of darkness to light, pain to love!  Welcome to our new earth, let's see what it has in store for each and every one of us!
Namaste, Blessings of Love and Light! 

Fall is on it's Way

Okay, so I was in a new place this summer, and I suppose it did help.  I truly did not appreciate it as much as I should have though, as I had so many bouts of tears!  Waking up alone still gets me, every single morning!  It takes awhile to get positive again, some days are easier than others.  Today is a good day, as I have a lot of good stuff going on in my life now.  I am doing Goddess Readings and Reiki on Friday's in a place in Bradley Beach.  I love doing readings, it's like therapy to them, and spirit is really helping to guide them through you!  I need to get this out more, find more places to do this, have parties, etc.  
I also found a part time nanny job two days a week to help pay the bills, which was pretty important.  I need steady income, until I can create financial abundance through my other work.  
I started another business, "Rays of Healing Reiki" for Dogs!  So, busy I am!  I created business cards, flyers, etc., for my new business, and have to get out and about and advertise.  I will go to the groomers, doggie day cares, etc., and ask if I can put my flyer and business cards out.  I have a really good feeling about this, it's just where I should be now, helping to heal the dogs.  The Reiki is also really helping to calm and heal so many dogs, so it will be exciting to experience this!  It all came about after a Qi Gong class I took, my energy shifted, and spirit guided me to such.  The cool thing is my daughter is also a dog trainer, her and her boyfriend, and they have their own business, specializing in board and training agressive dogs!  So, once they get a facility, I hope to work there with them a few days a week.  This also will keep me in my daughter's life, which I so want to be!  
                                   
And of course, there is always my writing, my writing which I wish I could do full time!  Stay home and get paid for it, for doing what I truly love!  So, I am becoming more aware of doing this for an income, and have found sources online that will pay you to write for them, I just need to follow through.  And my children's books will always be there, sitting on my coffee table, waiting for me to illustrate, draw, and paint!  I pick them up, do work here and there, but also need to make it a priority! So, I am asking the Universe to send me help here, help with getting my books finished, illustrated and published!! 
So many dreams, passions, but I still want love, true love.  I would love to fall in love again, and get married, and have family around always.  Living alone is lonely, living with others is so energizing, and comforting.  I have spent enough time alone, time to pander, pray, meditate, and figure it all out!  Which none of us will ever do anyway, but I sure have tried.  I have done so much inner work, I am done!  Done of the tears, the wrongs I did, the blame, the torture.  It is time to forgive, forgive ourselves for any and all of it, no matter what it was, it's done, gone, gone forever.  The memory always lasts though, so it is good to heal that memory, then let it go.  I held on too long, I remember the summer after seeing Teal Swan, how I cried all summer, wasted my precious time away!  I wrote all about it here too, too much pain and sadness.  Too much idle time on our hands is not so good, we can get caught up in the pain and suffering.  Getting out, being alive, seeing the trees, nature, the ocean, good friends, that is what it's about!  Life, it's what we make it, what we want it to be.  I know that now, and that is why I focus on my dreams, my mansion up North with my daughter in it with me, with my son in his own mansion next to me, on the lake.  I just went to visit my daughter again, and she is staying with my sister in law, who owns a gorgeous home, a gorgeous mansion as I like to call it!  As I left, I decided this is what I want, a beautiful home like this, where my kids can come and go, friends and family too!  My ex husband and I were building a beautiful home, a castle in the woods, and I still dream of that place.  So, I want my dream of owning my beautiful mansion, with children in it, to come true!  Why not?  I have struggled so many years, had money, gave it away to men I should not have, and now want more.  I also want a home on the ocean for my husband and I, for all of our family and friends to come stay and visit anytime, where I can write, draw and paint my heart away!  
And so it is!  

Labor Day Weekend

Oh boy, the last days of summer, Labor Day weekend.  I always get so sad during these summer holidays when I have nowhere to go and don't get invited anywhere!  It totally makes me feel so alone!  Just great, just the same each day, sad lonely feelings I have to deal with each morning I awake.  

It doesn't seem to get any easier, just the same sadness each morning waking up alone.  Then it takes me awhile to adjust, deal with it, and get through the day.  Some days it is hard to get motivated, to do all I want to do.  I have written a few children's books, and am working on illustrating one now, but it seems hard to sit down and create, when I am feeling so low.  That is my dream, to finally get them illustrated and published, so I can share them with the children, and be free.  Free from this life, free from the financial burden I always feel, free from feeling so alone all the time.  I love the children, I always did, they always lighten up my life! 

I am trying to create a new life here, at the beach, and it's not fun at all.  I still yearn for the life and family I had, the life with my three kids, and my ex husband!  Although things got rough, and we parted ways, I still hold his love so deep in my heart, it's hard to shake off.  I had loved him so much, for over twenty five years.  He became so bitter, angry and insulting though, that has left pain in my heart as well.  I am working on "letting go", I work on it all the time it seems, and I still get thoughts that haunt me from the past!  Memories of the many things I did so wrong, and should have done so much better. 

 After my divorce, I was a single Mom for a long time, and I wish I did so many things differently.  These thoughts always seem to come and haunt me, and I cry so much of the time.  The messages I receive about the ascension, all tell me I am releasing the pain, to just let it go.  To try not to get so deep into the feelings, but cry and release.  I blame myself too much for so many mistakes I made, and forgiving myself is something I work on often.  It is really hard for me to forgive myself, I have three children that were affected by my life choices. 

I miss my children, my family, and I feel the need to connect with them all the time.  My family doesn't seem so close anymore, no one wanting to get together for a BBQ in the summer anymore.  Unless they are and I am not invited, which did happen this Memorial Day weekend for me.  Many times I feel so alone, my family gone, my children gone, and then I ask why?  Why is this going on and happening to me?  Why couldn't we have worked it out, got through it all and kept "our" family together?  We were building a beautiful home, a true castle with octagons on both sides, in five acres of woods!  Do I even remember us focusing on this?  No, not one bit!  All I remember is the fighting, the hurt, the pain, the insults.  Why couldn't we focus on the good, the love, the joy we had in our life creating our family, with our three children?  It doesn't help when I ask why, because I never get an answer, it only makes it worse!

So, for today, I will try to let it go, breathe deep, pray, meditate, do some energy work and yoga, and try to purge on with the day, with some type of joy in my heart.

I just wish it would all get easier, and my tears from the past will stop, and I will be able to move forward!

The Hard Days

Well, another day, and what a low day I had today! 
Some days it feels so hard, so hard to get ahead, provide financially for myself, and to stay happy, focused and centered.  I couldn't shake it off all day, frazzled with worry about how funds will appear for me now!  Today!  It put me in such a bad mood, and it's so hard to shift that energy for me, and I don't even want to leave the house.  
But, I finally did, as we were having dinner with my daughter for her birthday, so I was driving up North awhile ago, when she called and cancelled.  She has so much going on now, and was not feeling well, so we changed it to another night.  So, instead of hanging out with my son alone, I decided to turn around, not hit the traffic going up North, and come back home.  Little did I think I would hit traffic anywhere I went, and when I turned around, I did not take the Parkway, and it took me over an hour to get back home!  The same amount of time it would have taken me to go up North to see him!  Why didn't I just go up to see him, my son?  If I thought about it, seeing him would have totally cheered me up, and given me great energy again!  It's almost like when your low, something guides you the wrong way, the way to lower energy and vibrations.  My vibration is already so low, that by seeing him, he would have helped raise that energy within me!  One, because he is my son, and we have that amazing connection that energizes you by just being together, and two, because I love him, love to see him, miss him, and he just moved into his own place, and I have gifts of plants for him I could have given him! And, I don't look forward to coming home alone again! 
 I realize this, I cry, scream inside my car alone, and can't deal with the choices I make, feeling so foolish for turning around and not jumping on the chance to see my son.  Then, do you think your intuition is guiding you a certain way?  Because I had a strong urge to turn around and go home when my daugher cancelled.  I will tell you why, I feel so unsettled about this money thing, it's getting me sick, and very anxious, and I didn't want to be sad and upset with my son.  When I feel this way, it is hard for me to hide from my children, especially my son!  But, now I see it would have comforted me so much to see him, to be alone with him, and hang out in his new place!
I pray I make better decisions in the future!
I have good news though, about doing energy work in a space in Bradley, energy work, Reiki, and Oracle Cards, Goddess and Life Purpose.  I am meeting the owners tomorrow morning to discuss.  I hope it goes well, and they allow me to use their space a few days a week, so I can help others, and become financially abundant along the way!  I am grateful for this, as I put it out there all last week to find a space to allow me to help in the healing of others, and this appeared after speaking to a friend I know who does Sound Healing with the Crystal bowls and gongs!
And so it is!
Love and Light Always!