November Pagan Family Circle - Page 3

[wombatclay]

Aeress- do you have my addy for the yule cards? Speaking of yule and all that!

[mary3mama]

DOK --
My eldest described things like that starting at about 5 and then shortly thereafter started having real 'growing pains' in his feet at night. We dosed him with homeopathic Calcarea Phosphorica whenever needed and both sensations were eliminated or greatly mitigated.

Middle guy is just starting to describe what I believe are the beginnings of his growing pains in his feet. Gotta make sure I have plenty of Calc-P for the winter.

[femme_rouge]

Wow...November already

Originally Posted by Aeress

As far as Thanksgiving goes-we are studying the Little House books, and also Native American culture and their story so that the kids get both perspectives. It has been very eye opening. Cobblestone magazine for kids has a great issue on both stories and we have had may talks about this.

A few nights ago we finished Little House in the Big Woods. It's been our first chapter book for my 3 and 5 yo. I wasn't paying a lot of attention, but when we got to the last pages DD yelled out excitedly, "It's the last page-we did it!" So, fun to see her so excited about reading/books. I would love to see that magazine. Now that we're on to the next book, I'm stopping a lot to give another perspective. I like the idea of using another reading material to discuss it rather than hearing Mom yap, yap, yap.


So, mamas...this morning I totally lost it with my kids. I was not the mama I want to be. They both cried and said I scared them. I have old anger issues that I try so hard not to subject my LO's to, but if I don't pay close attention to being triggered, I blow it, and today I did. After I apologized and tried to explain to them in an age appropriate way that what happened wasn't their fault, we went outside to watch the setting full moon. I closed my eyes and drew in the calming female mother moon energy to fill me up and help me resolve my issues, so my innocent DC's don't have to deal with my crap. Sorry to unload this. I don't mean to be a downer.

Forward with hopefully a little more clarity.

[Valerie.Qc]

femme_rouge

DD2 has a weird rash... looks like the center of Chicken Pox blisters but without any redness around

Put my crystals and stones on the windowsill to charge under the Full Moon. Waiting for actual Full Moon time (14:15 eastern time) to take them back.

[mary3mama]

Originally Posted by femme_rouge

So, mamas...this morning I totally lost it with my kids. I was not the mama I want to be. They both cried and said I scared them. I have old anger issues that I try so hard not to subject my LO's to, but if I don't pay close attention to being triggered, I blow it, and today I did. After I apologized and tried to explain to them in an age appropriate way that what happened wasn't their fault, we went outside to watch the setting full moon. I closed my eyes and drew in the calming female mother moon energy to fill me up and help me resolve my issues, so my innocent DC's don't have to deal with my crap. Sorry to unload this. I don't mean to be a downer.

Forward with hopefully a little more clarity.

I don't see that as 'unloading' but sharing and getting support.

I had such a sucky childhood and I still deal with the anger-demon that it gave me. (Yes, tapping is helping TONS.)

FWIW, though, I've found that my outbursts seem to be related to my cycle and my vitamin/mineral health. I started taking a B-complex vitamin during my last pregnancy because I was such a shrew at times and my midwife observed that B is water-soluable and my morning prenatal's store was probably all gone by afternoon. So I took that then. Such a huge help! And to this day if I'm starting to be shrewish, snarky or hateful to the children (I feel a big ole' rage building...so I know it's happening) I pop a sublingual B-complex into my mouth immediately and then think about what I've had to eat that day.

It helps so much to find out what I can do to make it better instead of just thinking that I'm damaged and incapable of being a good mama.

HTH,

Originally Posted by Valérie.Qc

Put my crystals and stones on the windowsill to charge under the Full Moon. Waiting for actual Full Moon time (14:15 eastern time) to take them back.

Oh, thanks for that reminder!! I need to get my stones out...

[aweynsayl]

happy november, all!

yay for moose eating pumpkins (er, or pumpkin eating moose...), babe birthdays (and babes about to be birthed!), momma birthdays, possible new homes, beautiful moons (can you believe i forgot to check mooncircles?! ack!), healing rituals, family traditions, thanksgiving trips, yuletide trees, dogs with meaningful names, and so on!

hugs and vibes to all in need...


eta: see, when you start your reply about an hour before you get to post it, you miss things... fr, hugs, momma. ditto mary, but for me, it's WATER. sounds so dumb, but i really find it helps. hugs, you.

[DaughterOfKali]

Originally Posted by SunshineJ

Rarely I get something that might be similar. If I sleep in the same position for a long time (always on my back) and am really tired and sleeping very deeply, it's like my body parts went to sleep as well and it takes a couple minutes for things to start working again.

He'd been up for some time and had already walked around. If it happens again, I'll call the doc.

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by Aeress

*hides head*- I let the kids watch A Christmas Story last week.

What's the problem with that? I'd do it. What's wrong with it?

Originally Posted by LionessMom

Today marks the day Dh and I started dating in 2003. that is 6 years! we have been married for 6 months. he says it doesnt count anymore. what a party pooper. :> he was just teasing me.

Congrats! I can't wait to start celebrating anniversaries, one day...right now I'm just utterly steeped in NEW Only 23 more days, mamas! OMG you should have heard us on the phone at 4:30 this morning (yes, 4:30-- he gets up for work that early, and my clinicals are that early-starting too, so convenient for both of us ) I had sent him an email saying I'm obsessed, to which he replied on the phone "oh, obsessed, yes, we are both psycho-obsessed; we're, like, stalking each other"

OMGs mamas he said the most amazing thing the other day-- he says a lot that he wants to be with me forever; well, starting in two years; I say it too but I said "Really? No more long distance?" and he said "Nope. No more long distance. One house, one room, one life"-- omg be still my beating heart

Sorry-- I just can't stop I am so, so in lurve

Originally Posted by Ambystoma

But then it's time to get ready for YULE! I've been excited about this for months now--and we finally have a fireplace! If only it would stay cool here....

Oh, a fireplace! Lucky you. The best I have is a fireplace video

Originally Posted by OceansEve

Yule tree is up can't wait to decorate it over the coming months w/ DDs

WOW. Early.

Originally Posted by southernmommie

Lit the firepits while the neighbors ate/drank 690 jello shots... well and gave some out to the parents with their kids...

We normally have a big meal planned and invite a bunch of the single sailors that don't go home for the holidays to come and eat at our house since you aren't allowed to cook in the barracks. We've been doing this since we started dating 8 years ago and this has been our Thanksgiving tradition ever since. The Christmas holidays we save for our family time, but for Thanksgiving we adopt the "more the merrier" mentality and love it.

You gave jello shots to the kids?

Great trad with the sailors. That's really cool.

Originally Posted by DaughterOfKali

I've just discovered that there are some Bewitched (original series) episodes On Demand. I loved it as a kid but like it even more now!

You can find them on YouTube, too. I finally got to see the first one, after all these years

Originally Posted by Vojerleda

Ah, November. This is my favorite month. Wait. Maybe December. Or May. Crap.

Originally Posted by CariOfOz

pardon the confusing multiquote.. some posts are being carried over from the October thread hehe.


Bwhahaha at the bolded bit! Geez we would get along so well IRL with our senses of humor hehehe.

How do you carry over quotes from another thread?
at the bolded bit, you
Congrats on your anniv!!

Originally Posted by wombatclay

Happy birthday to all the November mamas and kiddos (I'm a november birthday too!). Hope much fun is had by all.

When's yours again? Mine's the 17th,and it's my 50th. When shall we have my virtual birthday party? My actual birthday is a Tuesday (the day I was born; how cool is that?) and I'm in clinical till 2pm. How about 3ish? Later? How about a virtual community birthday party for all the Nov.birthdays? Where shall we have it? Who's wearing what? Who are you bringing? Nothing formal like Yule, last year. Hmm...who's making the cake? What kind shall we have? We have to have lots of chocolate. Maybe a fountain?

Ooooh, this is going to be fun!

Great idea re: the fairy bowl, Clay. My son gets to glom all he can glom, the night of Halloween and the next day. After that, he can choose: I ration it out daily, or he can sell it back to me for 25c a piece. One year he made $10!! This year, he ate it all the next day

Originally Posted by greenmagick

sorry, back on topic

We have a topic?

Originally Posted by liza-s

DS absolutely loves Gromit - but he can't say "gr" sounds - do he calls him Dammit. Some days all dogs are Damits. Makes for some interesting looks from strangers. I think we should name a future dog "Gromit" - just pronounce it like my son: Sit Gromit. Come Gromit. No Gromit.

That is so hilarious! I love Wallace and Gromit, too. And Chicken Run. I love claymation in general. We love the Were-rabbit movie!

When ds was little, he couldn't say combination sounds. One day our babysitter (Baptist preacher's kid) told me as I got home from somewhere "R said 'f**cky f**cky f**cky' over and over again!!" and I was like...where in the heck would he learn that? She thought it was me , but it wasn't. Took me like 3 days to figure out he was saying funky.

Originally Posted by Aubergine68

My favorite tree was a potted norfolk pine I had when I first had my own place. I put little lights and origami decorations on it every season and it was just about right. I'd love to have another one; we couldn't bring it when we moved.

My most memorable tree was when I was still goth and a raging drunk/druggie, my BF and I were living in this flophouse, and we cut a sorry tree from the side of the road, propped it up in a bucket (it wouldn't stand-- it really was leaning against the wall) and decorated it with pull-apart spider webs
Which is OK-- the singer from my next-to-last band wanted one decorated entirely in Barbie heads.

Originally Posted by LionessMom

Yule: I cant start right away. i have to take down the Halloween decs and do thanksgiving stuff first. i like to start setting up for Yule the day after Thanksgiving. which is the 26th.

Egads, I'm really starting to hate undecorating. We usually put up the tree sometime btw the day after Thanksgiving, and Dec. 4th or so. This year it's definitely not on Thanksgiving!

Originally Posted by mary3mama

Considering a live tree this year...really live, with a root ball for planting afterwards. Anyone done this before? We have plenty of land that needs more trees planted and I have a placenta in the freezer waiting to nourish a tree.

Yes. Make sure you get it from a nursery, and it's meant to be planted, NOT from a tree-selling lot. Our experience two Yules ago: I bought one from a tree-selling lot, it was cute and just as short as me (5') and only $30. I got it home and then when...um, what do I do with it? So I got online, and turns out you have to keep it outside till you are ready to bring it in, and then only keep it in for like a week, because it can't acclimate to the outside again after 7-10 days in the warmer indoor air. Then you have to plant it and water it every day for at least 3 weeks. And then it still has a mostly high rate of dying. They don't last. They don't survive. Mostly because of the way the roots are cut. They're just chopped, shocked, with no regard for the tree, because it looks cool for the holiday season to be wrapped in burlap. It's so sad.

We got lucky, and ours actually lived, and started with some new growth-- and then the drought killed it

Originally Posted by Valérie.Qc

Put my crystals and stones on the windowsill to charge under the Full Moon. Waiting for actual Full Moon time (14:15 eastern time) to take them back.

Aww, man, I forgot. Well-- we can still do it tonight. Tomorrow's still Full Moon energy.

[greenmagick]

Ahh. A Christmas Story I always really liked that movie, but it now holds special meaning to me. I had my daugher on the 21st by c-section. Xmas eve they took her to special care nursery for jaundice. My dh was home with the dogs, and the rest of my family was all together celebrating. Xmas eve is big in our family. Anyways, I was feeling really down and sad and couldnt sleep. A Christmas Story was on its 24 hour marathon. I watched it almost the entire time....and sadly enough, laughed every time too! (which didnt feel too good!).

I must say though, I really dont like decorations going up super early. I get sick of them by the time the holidays roll around. Also, I do real trees, so they totally wouldnt make it that long I put up around the 1st of december and leave up til about mid january.

[mary3mama]

Originally Posted by Maiasaura

Yes. Make sure you get it from a nursery, and it's meant to be planted, NOT from a tree-selling lot. Our experience two Yules ago: I bought one from a tree-selling lot, it was cute and just as short as me (5') and only $30. I got it home and then when...um, what do I do with it? So I got online, and turns out you have to keep it outside till you are ready to bring it in, and then only keep it in for like a week, because it can't acclimate to the outside again after 7-10 days in the warmer indoor air. Then you have to plant it and water it every day for at least 3 weeks. And then it still has a mostly high rate of dying. They don't last. They don't survive. Mostly because of the way the roots are cut. They're just chopped, shocked, with no regard for the tree, because it looks cool for the holiday season to be wrapped in burlap. It's so sad.

We got lucky, and ours actually lived, and started with some new growth-- and then the drought killed it

Thanks for the extra info!

What I'm considering is putting the artificial tree up whenever we have everything ready. That way we can start getting festive. It's a slim 'foyer tree' we bought when I was pg with my youngest. We needed a new tree and our little house couldn't take anything big (and our apt last winter was even smaller) however this year we are in a big house and the little foyer tree will look, um, dinky.

That little tree would be where the children could make and place and constantly rearrange ornaments (all non-breakable) throughout the season. Then we'd get a real, living tree nearer to Yule and put it on the front porch so that it didn't get too warm and start loosing it's needles too early.

We could then bring it inside and do the real 'tree trimming' as part of a specific festive day.

So then I just need to figure out if it is better for the tree to go ahead and plant it in December (having pre-dug a whole before the ground freezes) or to keep it as a huge house plant on the front porch until spring and then plant it with the saplings and seedlings we'll be dotting ye olde landscape with....

[gun]

I love Turkey Day!! I can't wait! DH cooks and we have my fam over. Totally relaxing. Speaking of DH, he just got a new job. Got the phone call about an hour ago. Hopefully it will work out. It is about a 20 minute shorter commute so that will be terific although the pay will be the same.

And today is my 9 year anniversary at my job. Can't believe it has been 9 years.

You all are a chatty bunch this November thread!

I have been so busy cleaning out the MIL's home. Blech. Remember this - your junk drawer will be your kid's junk drawer when you die!! Don't do that to them!!!! I mentioned that I have inherited MIL's giant fat dog. Well, I think we are bonding. I had the opportunity to re-home her, but she is so happy to see me when I get home, I can't do it.

Catching up soon!

[redveg]

Originally Posted by femme_rouge

So, mamas...this morning I totally lost it with my kids. I was not the mama I want to be.

Be easy on yourself.

Originally Posted by mary3mama

I don't see that as 'unloading' but sharing and getting support.

[redveg]

Gun congrats to you and your DH on the new job and job anniversary!

[Teenytoona]

Originally Posted by femme_rouge

So, mamas...this morning I totally lost it with my kids. I was not the mama I want to be. They both cried and said I scared them. I have old anger issues that I try so hard not to subject my LO's to, but if I don't pay close attention to being triggered, I blow it, and today I did. After I apologized and tried to explain to them in an age appropriate way that what happened wasn't their fault, we went outside to watch the setting full moon. I closed my eyes and drew in the calming female mother moon energy to fill me up and help me resolve my issues, so my innocent DC's don't have to deal with my crap. Sorry to unload this. I don't mean to be a downer.

Forward with hopefully a little more clarity.

I'm so sorry. I've done that too, I too have major anger problems. Then feel so horrible afterwards. But here's what you're doing that's better - you're not just blowing up and then leaving it. You're explaining it to them, and that does go a long way.

Thanks all for the well-wishes with DH. His changing has had to do with conversion to JW a few years ago, and it's really been hard watching him go from a person I knew and loved to this whole new personality, someone I hardly know. The stroke really wasn't part of that, but, of course, it means now he's even more convinced of his new beliefs and, well... I can't handle living with that. I'm not sure what's going to happen to be honest.

I did go T-o-T with DD this weekend - from my mom's house. My nephew (who's about DD's age) was there too. Didn't dress DD up really, exxcept for a carebear outfit that she had on, and her hair was in pigtails - enough where my SIL said it's good enough. So we started going door-to-door, and after a few houses she realized that she was getting candy at all of them! So she'd run from one to the next saying "candy candy! running! c'mon austin!" She was STOKED! Can't wait for next year. We only took them to about half a blocks' worth of houses, but they got a great stash and little DD crashed out hard.

I like the idea of days set aside for giving thanks. I'm not sure I love the origin of Thanksgiving day, but I do like the spirit of the end of harvest/beginning of winter feast and thankfulness... Plus, turkey is too darned good.

[liza-s]

The painful cuteness of toddlers (when they aren't screaming):
So on Halloween, I painted by belly to be a pumpkin. Last night DS comes to me with a pen lifts up his shirt and says "pumpkin." He persists and I went and got the eyebrow pen or whatever I used for my belly and just drew him a "C." (For his name). He pointed to the crescent C and said "moon" Then he wanted me to draw on my belly - I made another pumpkin with "crescent moon" eyes. All night he and I had "pumpkin moon babies" for tummies. Before bed, I was just sitting on my bed enjoying the incredibly bright moon shining in the window - and it was illuminating my belly quite nicely. Well I got him 2 white pumpkins this year - they were really light weight (soccar ball size & 3 pounds) - he ran and got one, put in on my lap and pronounced "Two pumpkin moon babies." I about died - I got all teary and laughing at the same time. I guess my belly, especially in the moon light, does look like a white pumpkin. Definitely have to hit the tanning bed after she's born.

[DaughterOfKali]

Liza- That is such a sweet story!

[saphire]

gun- It's great you and the dog are becoming pals My big dog is my first baby. Sorry you've got so much mil stuff to filter through. When my times comes for that I'm gonna need a whole dumpster.

FR- I've btdt too, and I feel so guilty afterwards. Nobody's perfect.

liza, that's so cute, thanks for sharing

Teeny- my mom's sister was JW, all during my childhood. I understood how my cousin's lives were different, and it wasn't until the last year or so that I talked to my cousins about them growing up JW that I got a better sense of the beliefs. I can imagine that I'd be struggling if I were in your shoes- the spiritual/religous choices one makes definitely affects the other spouse. I hope that in the end, whatever happens, you are happy.

Maia- you're so cute and giddy!

holidays- My oldest is already ready to set up a christmas tree. I have to tell her every year she has to wait until after thanksgiving. This year I do want to decorate more than the last couple years! I'm already having to stop myself from buying more decorations- the dollar store and big lots has some good ones right now.

I think I'm getting an new laptop tonight!

[Valerie.Qc]

Argh!!!

DD2 has Chicken Pox and I have Shingles... yay!

[Peacemamalove]

Liza that is so sweet~ I can just picture you sitting there in the moonlight

Valérie.Qc ~ Healing thoughts your way

[CariOfOz]

Originally Posted by femme_rouge

So, mamas...this morning I totally lost it with my kids. I was not the mama I want to be.

You're not unloading, or being a downer at all. That's what we are here for. Trust me I know all too well what you're feeling... I have 3 little boys (plus the 2 growner upper ones), and they all have challenging personality traits. Sometimes my well is just 'dry' and I have no more coping strategies to call on and I blow up and yell and growl like a madwoman All those mama's who look perfect out there? they have had the same thing happen at least once in their parenting lives.. nobody is perfect and nobody is able to react perfectly in every situation.

I actually lost the plot yesterday as well... imagine 500ml of bubble solution all over my kitchen Yes, that's half a litre.. 2 full cups *splat* Upside, now that it's all cleaned up, the floors in there look fab

Originally Posted by Maiasaura

Congrats! I can't wait to start celebrating anniversaries, one day...right now I'm just utterly steeped in NEW Only 23 more days, mamas! OMG you should have heard us on the phone at 4:30 this morning

hehehe Daim used to call me at odd hours too, before we 'met' he would call to wake me up in the morning (which was 11am for me, 2nd shift

How do you carry over quotes from another thread?
at the bolded bit, you

Um.. well I hit the multiquote button on the posts on the old thread, and then followed the link to the new thread. At the bottom of the post window it told me I had selected posts from another thread, and wanted to know if I wanted to deselect or quote them in this msg

Originally Posted by greenmagick

Ahh. A Christmas Story

OMG you're gonna put yer eye out!

Originally Posted by liza-s

The painful cuteness of toddlers (when they aren't screaming):
So on Halloween, I painted by belly to be a pumpkin. Last night DS comes to me with a pen lifts up his shirt and says "pumpkin."

So cute

My toddlers cuteness overload is when he comes running from wherever he is and lays his head on my arm to cuddle and says 'aww i'm so cute!' or 'i wub you mummy!' I totally crack up at him saying he is so cute

Re: trees. We don't do real ones here, mainly because they just don't grow well in this part of queensland and it's just silly to ship a tree 1000km .. talk about super non eco friendly :P And here it'd dry out in no time anyway. We got a new fake tree last year, it's BLACK and cool as all get out hehehe. I will share pics once we get it up & decked out with our gorgeous new jewel toned decorations & fairy topper I can't find a tree skirt that will 'match', so I may have to get some pretty fabric and make one mahself dangit

I've decided I'm not spending a fortune on those fakey pine garlands, which had been on my list, so I think I may stomp off to some local bushland with my handy secateurs and see if I can't divest a few eucalypts of some branches to make swags out of

Ok, best get hopping on some schoolwork with the kids... today we're going to build a model ancient egyptian garden (it's a replica of one found in noble mans' tomb) and maybe some armbands & 'kilt' outfits like they would have worn if they'd have lived back then