I lurve Autumn! MMMMmmmmm.
The girls were nutty yesterday so I missed the "mindful mama" meeting (a friend just started a children welcome mindfullness/sitting practice at one of the nearby EcoVillages) but I mindfully consumed a nut brown ale and kept the kiddos from killing each other. That should count, right?
Welcome to everyone who just "found" the thread, or just decided to jump in!
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DoK- glad the Roo made it through the night despite the monitor. Yay for silks! What a great idea to blend it with the book shows... Barefoot and Silks work so well together. Maybe suggest Robin Goodfellow as a costume? Sort of the "boy fairy" look, though inviting that puckish energy into your lives right now may be a bit much! Though maybe not... I had a real "fling" with Puck in college and although the experience was a whilrwind, somehow everything seemed to end well.
That reminds me... I have an ancient 3CPO action figure (real metal joints, etc, though I feel oooooold describing a childhood toy as ancient!). I used to carry it as a talisman. I found the action figure by the side of the road after a particularly hard 24 hours (a fire at the camp I worked at in which we couldn't find one of the 4yos in my group, then being hit by a DWI car in a construction zone while driving home from the camp, then being hit by ANOTHER car the following morning when that driver fell asleep and crossed three lanes of traffic before hitting me... which is when I found the c3po). Anyway, my frazzled brain realized that although all sorts of craziness happens around C3PO, he's always ok. I still carry him in the glove box, but maybe this sort of talisman would be helpful to others? Maybe not a C3PO, but something to remind you that even after having your head put on backwards it's possible to be better off down the road?
Then again, I had a Tigger statue on my altar for years to represent the God so you may want to take my idea with a grain of salt. (or a nut brown ale
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Terra-
I can decorate with any and all Autumnal joys, but this pumpkin thing is more worrisome in terms of living life in October in rural NY. All the stores have big pumpkin displays, dd1's waldorf school is needle felting pumpkins, our farmer's market has piles of pumpkins! I have to pick up groceries and our csa share and bring dd2 to dd1's harvest fest and all that. Who would have thought that plain old pumpkins would be a trigger? She walked past all the crazy stuff at Lowes (the giant rats, the grim reaper with sound effects, the shelob, the huge cat inflated yard thing) only to melt down at the orange pumpkin candy baskets. Poor kiddo! What a goofy.
Ok, my brain just wibbled... I forget all the other stuff i wanted to respond to.
Must get more coffee!
The girls were nutty yesterday so I missed the "mindful mama" meeting (a friend just started a children welcome mindfullness/sitting practice at one of the nearby EcoVillages) but I mindfully consumed a nut brown ale and kept the kiddos from killing each other. That should count, right?
Welcome to everyone who just "found" the thread, or just decided to jump in!
:DoK- glad the Roo made it through the night despite the monitor. Yay for silks! What a great idea to blend it with the book shows... Barefoot and Silks work so well together. Maybe suggest Robin Goodfellow as a costume? Sort of the "boy fairy" look, though inviting that puckish energy into your lives right now may be a bit much! Though maybe not... I had a real "fling" with Puck in college and although the experience was a whilrwind, somehow everything seemed to end well.
That reminds me... I have an ancient 3CPO action figure (real metal joints, etc, though I feel oooooold describing a childhood toy as ancient!). I used to carry it as a talisman. I found the action figure by the side of the road after a particularly hard 24 hours (a fire at the camp I worked at in which we couldn't find one of the 4yos in my group, then being hit by a DWI car in a construction zone while driving home from the camp, then being hit by ANOTHER car the following morning when that driver fell asleep and crossed three lanes of traffic before hitting me... which is when I found the c3po). Anyway, my frazzled brain realized that although all sorts of craziness happens around C3PO, he's always ok. I still carry him in the glove box, but maybe this sort of talisman would be helpful to others? Maybe not a C3PO, but something to remind you that even after having your head put on backwards it's possible to be better off down the road?
Then again, I had a Tigger statue on my altar for years to represent the God so you may want to take my idea with a grain of salt. (or a nut brown ale
)Terra-
I can decorate with any and all Autumnal joys, but this pumpkin thing is more worrisome in terms of living life in October in rural NY. All the stores have big pumpkin displays, dd1's waldorf school is needle felting pumpkins, our farmer's market has piles of pumpkins! I have to pick up groceries and our csa share and bring dd2 to dd1's harvest fest and all that. Who would have thought that plain old pumpkins would be a trigger? She walked past all the crazy stuff at Lowes (the giant rats, the grim reaper with sound effects, the shelob, the huge cat inflated yard thing) only to melt down at the orange pumpkin candy baskets. Poor kiddo! What a goofy. Ok, my brain just wibbled... I forget all the other stuff i wanted to respond to.
Must get more coffee!
believe me, introspection and re-evaluating i have no issue with (though they've been a huge part of my life for the past 4 years, and a change might be nice, lol)... it's the out and out backstabbing and aggressive nastiness of the past month that got to me. 
as for the coming out stronger, you'd better freaking believe it!
(he was famous for EATING the wooden nest box we got for them, nutty rat!)
Sorry for the loss of Mocha.
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