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Originally Posted by Zannalyn 
I think being free of lima beans is a fine thing! 
I knew your fish would be ok! I never posted about it, but I remember when you first wrote about it, (and sent some good vibes your way).
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Thank you! My kids were really manifesting for the fish, too! Our drive went really smooth -- very little construction, nice weather, pretty trees in bloom, polite drivers, etc.
Our stuff still isn't here, but it should be here in the morning. Today we got driver's licenses, cleaned up our cars, and rested.
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Originally Posted by WuWei 
After George (a goldfish), died a couple of weeks ago, our son asked me for the first time 'Will I die?' And I told him 'Our body dies, but we have a spirit of energy that stays with the people we love. So our spirit doesn't die, just our body.' I said 'Remember the Circle of Life? When things die, their body returns to the earth and nourishes the plants, and trees and becomes flowers and air and sun and helps everything that is living, so the body nourishes everything when it dies. And the spirit is always with the people who loved us. We are always together, even after our body dies.'
So, I don't really feel sad, because Grandma (and George) are always surrounding us. 
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I am so sorry for your loss.
Has anyone read
Sarah Book 1 by Hicks? It is a chapter book for kids written on about a 3rd grade reading level that explains some for of the basic Abraham teachings, including a good explanation of death (basically what Wu Wei just said, but in a story format!) I just read through this (I bought it for my DDs but wanted to read it before I gave it to them).
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Originally Posted by Momtwice 
Yesterday I vacuumed and saw several attachments on the back that I never noticed before. I've had it 2 or 3 years.
I was like, WHOA! Did I actually change reality? Or did I have blinders on and never notice them before?
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It's strange, but after I first saw the Secret and attracted my first cup of coffee, I decided that I wanted free coffee often, and then coffee just started showing up everywhere I went. Places I was going all the time, such as the Y where my kids were in classes, had coffee, but I had never noticed it before. It was really weird. I felt the same way you did -- has this ALWAYS been here, or I have just caused the places I frequent to suddenly provide coffee to patrons!?!?
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Originally Posted by Amris 
But, any critiques would be quite welcomed.
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very lovely and very professional!
I never realized your name is Am Ris. I'm curious about your name, if you would like to share.

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Originally Posted by Pookietooth 
Yes, that's a thought, although I'd feel guilty unless it was because I was working...
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Why? I've missed a lot of this thread, so I'm a bit lost on this if you've already explained this.

My oldest child is 10 and if I could go back and change 1 thing as a mother, I would have taken more time for myself all along. It seemed selfish to me at the time, so I just kept going until I collapsed, but in hind sight I can see that it would have been better for me,for my kids, and for my marriage if I can made taking care of myself and being true to myself one of my priorities all along.
It's possible that you have a lot of resistance to taking care of yourself and have defined "being a good mother" as not taking care of yourself.

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Originally Posted by *Devon* 
I am never eloquent and moving like so many mamas here, so I'll leave it to them, but I will just restate that there is NOTHING TO FEEL GUILTY about!!! What about some affirmations for THAT?
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Yes you are!
(both eloquent and right!)
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Originally Posted by catgirl 
Dh and his ex had shared custody of dss (who's now 24). They live less thatn a mile apart and they eally worked at it - always celebrated his birthday and religious holidays together, for example. At dss's bar mitvah the rabbi said to them, "Well, the marriage may not have worked, but you certainly made the divorce work!" At one point we were all interviewed on Good Morning America and his ex said, "You have to decide if you hate your ex-spouse more than you love your kids." DH also paid full custody support to her even though he was an equaltime parent (have I mentioned lately that he's a mensch?  ).
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WOW! Do you realized how far you've come???
You are bragging about your DH and what a great guy he is!

I'm so happy for you!

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Originally Posted by sphinxie 
Anyway the joke is, I'd gotten in the mail this letter that said "We do not have enough information to process your medical examination. Please take this sealed envelope to your doctor." Could hardly be better designed to freak me out.
Finally after angsting so huge it even got to DH, we take it to the doctor. Turns out it's nothing--some xrays that we already took care of anyway. Easier even than our best case scenarios.
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Oh my! Isn't immigration FUN!

My DH immigrated to the US (he's British), and we immigrated to Canada together (then we moved back to the states). Back in my single days, I thought that all immigrates were really interesting, brave, fascinating people, now I know that they just people who can persevere through red tape.

It's character building

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