sweet words

Hello, hello. My heart is overflowing today with love for my family. I'm still on this bread kick too by the way. I've got 2 loaves waiting to bake, and a batch of heart cookies cooling - don't I sound perfect? hah! Andy came home today and I told him to have a snack so we wouldn't eat dinner too early - I told him he would need to eat a stick of butter if he wanted to keep up with me! I had buttered popcorn and cookies with butter cream frosting for my snack - good god y'all. But oh, so good!

OK, this is serious now...seriously inspirational. There is a woman singer that I can't get enough of. She sings inspirational chants and songs. It's not for everyone, but if you are at all interested in "yoga" music, this is the real deal. Click above on the "sweet words" title to access her website. I have been buying her songs in iTunes and I have been playing them over and over. I am listening to her while I cook, while I paint my medicine buddha, and I also sing aloud to her as part of my morning meditation.

And no joke, every time I put this music on in the living room, my little guy comes out of the family room, away from his Star Wars Lego computer game, and just hangs out in the kitchen. This just happened and I asked him if I could hold him and he said 'yes' and I just held him and swayed, heart to heart, for a rare 60 seconds...

Oh yeah, her name is Snatam Kaur...check her out.

xoxo

Happy Valentine's Day

Hello All,

I hope each and everyone of you had a beautiful, love-filled Valentine's Day. It was a cozy, snowy day here and we started the day off with cards and chocolates. Yesterday, when I was in the card section at Target, I had a moment of profound gratitude for my husband. He is so lovely and loving to me, and sentimental, which I appreciate. I am a sap at heart and have never allowed myself to show that to any partner, and have never picked partners that would nurture that... Every romantic card I looked at made me smile. I love having a partner that gives me the freedom to shower him with love! And returns that! This morning he gave me a beautiful card and a red velvet heart box of chocolates. And you know what? I've always wanted a red velvet heart box of chocolates!!! Ever since I was a little girl...and I've never had one! So this was a very special treat for me.

Speaking of special treats...my ex-husband stopped over tonight to deliver some valentine presents for the kids. Harlan (my son) invited him in to see some Lego stuff) and my ex came in and stayed a while. This is a valentine's miracle that I am grateful for. I want my children to feel that their parents are welcome in their homes - anytime. So good for him for setting aside his differences and coming in for the kids. And then my ex (I'm just using "ex" not to use his first name - see what I mean about censoring myself??) gave Lili (my girl) a red velvet heart box of chocolates - and she was over the moon...awww. I love that both my little girls (Lili and I) got something so very special today.

BIG LOVE TO YOU!
XOXO

Give us this day...

our daily bread...

This is a photo of a loaf of bread that I made. I've been totally getting into making bread and I love it! And I love this recipe...if you want a copy, just send me an email (or comment) and I'll send you a copy right away.

Anyway, one of you may have noticed that I haven't been on my 'daily' blog for awhile - how about that Magic Kingdom?! I guess it took me awhile to recover from Disneyland! But seriously, I was getting weirded out about my blog. I felt like it was getting too ego-y and to 'I' centered. Like I was trying too hard to come up with these "Deep Thoughts" and be all inspired and shit. And then I started worrying about people reading my blog - the wrong people - like my ex-husband...(who cares??) but I was censoring myself.

The good thing that came out of that is that I started writing the more personal stuff in a journal (which takes care of the self-censorship issue I was having.) And a new friend (yea to new friends!) suggested that I do an anonymous blog* for some of my more personal issues that I still want to write about and share with others - this way I can be completely uncensored and not hurt anyone else in the process (i.e. protect anonymity.) Brilliant!

So I am thinking that I'll keep this blog going for my one fan out there (and you know who you are!) but I'll let myself off the hook and keep it short, sweet and hopefully inspirational...

xoxo

*Picture me, cocking my head to one side and doing my BEST Yoda voice: "Anonymous blog I can do?"