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Write about something you feel grateful for in your life today.

Let’s see I am very grateful that I am able to wear my contact lenses today! The pink eye has finally fully gone away. My glasses did the job, but weren’t my favorite way to see my world

This evening, I drove my 12 year old daughter, who is mature beyond her years, about 40 minutes to her guitar lesson. She talked, non stop, the whole way there. She told me about a movie they watched in science about tornados. As she was telling me, I’m thinking, I KNOW that movie! They showed Night of the Twisters. I told her the story line as she was recounting it. She then went on to tell me, just about chapter by chapter, about the book, The Outsiders, that she was reading in school. They will be watching the movie too. What a cast it has! I don’t remember seeing it, but it has all the actors from my era in it! Old mom even surprised her a bit too. I am not as square as she thought! While we were waiting to go into the lesson, she was playing songs from her ipod and testing me to see if I knew the artists. Got all of them except a few! Even impressed myself.

I am very grateful that we are forging a wonderful relationship.

One of my old friends on facebook made me cringe a little for him, and laugh at the same time. His status said that he “has one resolution: Make 2009 suck less than 2008.”

I can remember times, in my past, where I tried creating a better outcome by focusing on the things that went wrong. Anyone, who understands law of attraction, knows that is going about it the wrong way. I’ve learned that you need to take the contrast of the undesirable circumstances and discern what it is you DO want and then focus on that. In addition to that, you need to be able to look at where you are and where you have come from and find things to appreciate. Raising that appreciation vibe will open the door to allow your vibrational escrow to flow in.

Looking back over 2008, I am absolutely amazed at what a monumental year it really was.

- We totally gutted our kitchen and had it professionally redesigned. It looks BEAUTIFUL now and was well worth the 3 months it took! Luckily we had a second kitchen in this house due to the previous owner making a mother-in-law suite.

- My “little girl” started middle school this year. I can’t believe she is in 6th grade already!

- On the business front, we moved our office to a new location and now have warehouse space to hold all our stock. The business continued to grow and thrive in 2008.

- We added 2 (!) new additions to our family, Lulu and Sophie. Two sisters born on 1/1/2008 and are now about 60lbs a piece! So the family now has, Mom, Dad, One Daughter, Two Sons, 3 Dogs and a Cat (… and a partridge in a pear tree )

- We bought a house for my mom and moved her down here to live near us. That was pretty monumental for me when I look back on our relationship in the past. She was here once before and I was VERY glad when she moved back up north to be with my brother. What a difference a couple of years, alot of Abraham and alot of EFT, and tons of personal growth can make. She’s here and everything is perfect between us – NO DRAMA at all!

- We helped Steve’s brother and sister-in-law find a house to buy in NC for rental income. They are from England but will eventually be moving across the pond for at least 1/2 the year once they retire.

- I “ran away” for a “me” break to take part in the “I Can Do It” conference in Tampa. I discovered that my “fear of flying” no longer was. I discovered that my social anxiety was pretty much gone as well. I actually did quite a bit of work on the social anxiety aspect with EFT before I went and was pretty impressed that it paid off! During this trip, I also ended a 10 year friendship. It was very hard to do, but I needed to get my life back into a calm place. I put my needs first instead of someone else’s needs. THAT was pretty monumental for me too.

Ah 2009. I wonder what amazing things the next 365 days has in store for me.

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope 2009 brings you ultimate joy, health and prosperity! You deserve it and I believe we all can achieve that!

Monday mornings are usually quite drama filled. My boys spend all weekend long playing video games with occasional forays out into the back yard. I am very okay with their self directed activities. Everyone is happy so I’m good

When Monday morning comes, the realization that they have a week of teacher directed activities really causes quite the uproar. SJ (8) usually starts out really pissy, looking for reasons to be overly dramatic. Surprise, surprise – he finds reasons all over the place. Law of attraction is great that way!

This morning, the boys were getting their last rush on video gaming, before we had to leave for school, and intensely irritating each other in the process. Eventually the teasing and taunting turned into a pummel fest with both of them running my direction. I decided video games were done for the morning and basically yelled at them to go find something else to do.

Don’t know what I was thinking, but adding to the fire only served to create a bigger fire. SJ then went into dramatic overdrive and basically cussed me out, kid style.

Before he went stomping up the stairs to his room, he was yelling at me saying what a horrible mom I was. To punctuate his feelings about me, at that moment, he ended his tirade by yelling “You’re ugly and have a big butt!!”.

His brother, JD (6), was standing beside me at the time and was looking VERY shocked at the outburst while looking at me to see what my reaction would be. Much to SJ’s intense irritation, I burst out laughing! JD looked relieved and then rolled his eyes announcing “Dramatica!”.

JD does his own sort of Dramatica about school, but that needs a post of it’s own.

You don’t have to go back and deal with childhood issues, because those childhood issues produced a vibration within you that you are still offering — which is producing today issues. You can shift your vibration a whole lot easier when you’re dealing with today issues, than trying to deal with childhood issues. It’s the same vibration. That vibration that was creating childhood issues, now it’s creating today issues. Deal with it in your now. “Which thought feels better? Which thought feels better? Which thought feels better?”

Excerpted from a workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, July 31st, 1999

From the Works of Abraham-Hicks