The Roadtrip continues!!!!

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The road just keeps getting better and better~!

Ah, summer's here and the time is right for dancing in the streets! whooo hooo!

So, most of you know that the universe has given my soul family a wonderful opportunity, by supporting us financially for over a year while my popi takes an extended rest from conventional employment. We have been living the dream folks, traveling all over the place--mexico, puerto rico, boston, utah, idaho, virginia, maryland oh goodness me, i cant even remember all of the places its been so many and we have had such fun!

So, the summer months are here and the time to continue traveling with the kids is finite--but thats cool cause there are always weekend trips and adventures in the fall--but we had a ton of ideas of what we wanted to do, a few of which are visit my brother and his wife, visit popi's mom, visit a few old friends up in new england and a friend who has some dis-ease in NH...go see a red sox game with my nephew--go see more redsox games with the family, go see a pawsox game, get a week at a timeshare booked (RCI)...and me go to california to see my favorite band and my dear soulmate sister...

so, at first, these things were just kind of floating around in a bowl of soup so to speak, and then, i got this bright idea after going to the workshop to put everything down on paper as a master plan--on one side of the paper were things we wanted to do--on another were things that were already SET and then other possible things that could fit in...

And we had such fun, looking at the list and moving things from one side to another--kind of like the placemat process...and things JUST kept falling into place...

its not all done--but so far, this weekend we have a rock show by the great south bay, then tuesday--we get to watch the all-star game up at popi's mom's house where we will stay for a few days--visiting our friend who needs a VERY good laugh to refocus where he is--then on to rhode island to see my brother at his new apartment and see a pawsox game on JERSEY DAY! ya, we get a free jersey--and popi found a great hotel deal in beautifully redone downtown providence which i had always wanted to see...come home, pack my bags and head out to california on a flight that will eventually give me a free flight..driving a convertible all over northern california and will possibly get to have a drink with an Abraham friend! And it just so happens on one of the days one of my friends who plays in another band will be playing in the area and we might finally get to see her play! Come home--unpack, rest up--grab my nephew-(my neighbor graciously offered to watch our doggie!)-ship off to boston for a red sox game, come home...get ready to go up to Stowe Vermont to stay in a luxurious 3 bedroom mountainside condo with RCI that is basically FREE because we paid our maintenance on a one bedroom in mexico, but traded for this--its at a 4-1/2 star resort! And it allows us to see friends that live up there and we have plenty of room to invite friends who used to live up there so we can all get together and visit!

When we get back, we still wanna go up to boston for a few red sox games, and since popi is home--we can do that midweek...whooo hooo--so much fun stuff--all falling into place--all completely supported by the universe--MORE PLEASE! the more you ask for=the more you EXPECT...the more it comes--and the more it comes--the more abundance FLOWS to support it...

have fun this summer guys! just livin the dream and roadtrippin through life with the law of attraction!

Nice body baby! lessons from a young one...

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What do you see when you look at yourself?

I spent the earlier part of this afternoon soothing my dear daughter back into alignment. It was a very contrasty experience because it brought up a great many issues that i may have felt as a young girl, but we really did a lot of moving forward and going from deep sadness to joy (she was hysterical, and now she is sitting and singing opera to herself...you can only do that when you are in joy!)

She is a lovely young woman--sparkly, kind, a real energy ball--and astoundingly beautiful, singularly so--and i am trying not to be biased--but in this space, i can say what i want and not be seen as arrogant! lol...When she was young, she had such cute baby cheeks and baby belly, that she carried happily into young adult hood--and because no one was comparing her to anyone, because everyone told her how wonderful and beautiful she was, and accepted her for who she really was...she grew into a petite, but long torsoed healthy bodied teen--oh to have that long waist! lol with long red hair and a smear of freckles accross her translucent skin...

Lately, she has been hanging out with a group of girls that are VERY into their bodies--very into their shapes and being skinny and looking a certain way. She had never really been close to these girls, but because she had been taking a break from hanging out with her best guy friend, she listened to these girls complaining and bitching and started to take on their beliefs because she wanted to belong to the group which is what ALL girls want right?

She had never wanted that before--she had been happy to just flit through life doing her own thing--but for some reason--possibly a desire to experience the group mentality--she fell into place there...and took on their beliefs--and started to feel VERY badly about herself--because she thought she was (GASP--because it is so far from true) Fat...

There is nothing inherently wrong with being plump--I have been EVERY weight--ultra thin, curvy, pudgy and downright fat...and i always loved myself, even as i wished for things to be a bit different...here she was beating herself up because she didnt fit their beliefs related to weight...

and so, i told her the story of how as a young girl i had been a ballerina, and was never thin enough even though you could see my ribs! and because I fell for someone elses beliefs, my body lost its ability to self evaluate in a realistic way. No one tells you these things when you are young, but you will CRAVE that young body that was perfectly fine--but we all tend to fall into a trap of wishing to be what we arent, when if we truly stood up for ourselves and loved ourselves and said NO--i will be who i am, and not who you want me to be...then you would never want to be what you arent because it simply wouldnt be your truth and you wouldnt stand for that!

She realized that she was feeling BADLY because she was having a thought--and that thought was not her truth--and her inner being was telling her STRONGLY (and it always tells her things strongly) that those thoughts were not her truth...she was able to align quite easily again with knowing her lovely body was fine the way it is...she as also able to align easily with the idea that having a friend is not more important than honoring your own internal guidance...that a true friend is a person who sees you for who you really are--and is just fine with that--no matter what...

so, here is to my lovely daughter--who again reminded me that MY body is perfectly fine the way it is--and who reminded me to love myself every day because i wicked ROCK!