Happy Spaces and Flowing Energy!

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I have been busy creating happy spaces within our home. We started with the main floor last year. We completed both bathrooms during the winter. We sorted and moved furniture around in the basement just in time, to spend time down there during a strong storm, that hit our area hard.

This past month, I have been playing in our largest bedroom upstairs and the room we call the spirit room.

I wanted space in the bedroom to exercise. I also wanted my cloths organized and easy to access. I am so pleased with how it turned out. As an extra bonus, I can also play with my curls in there, too! I love the new space. I love how it flows and is easy to do all of the things I wanted to be able to do in that space. I find myself happy in this space. Before I felt frustrated and always in a hurry trying to find what I was looking for. Get in, get out, was my reaction to the energy in that room. Now I find myself lingering as I put my clothes away or when I am choosing what to wear for the day.

The Spirit Room is now also an office... I moved the desk my mom and I both have used over the years, into that room when we got it back from her apartment. It was the table that caused me so much pain, after my mom died, with the comments my brother made about it and my moms wishes for it, at a family gathering. The last family gathering I have attended. I was hurt and so disappointed. Down right angry with both my mom and my brother. His comments stabbed me through the heart, in ways that I hadn't expected to feel.

Fortunately, I am feeling much better now. So much better that I was able to pull the table away from the corner it had been in, since we brought it home. When I did, it seemed to come alive.

I could feel it calling me, to use it for my next adventure. "ZOOM ZOOM" was the message a few months ago.

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Interestingly, last night, a friend asked me if I knew anyone who was a reading specialist. LOL. She is looking for someone to teach her son to read "ONLINE". This may be something to explore, as when I was setting up the table, I said to myself, "Wow, I have room to 'TUTOR' someone."

"Wait, I want to do ONLINE activities, not in person work."

The table may want to do in person tutoring again, but I don't!

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My mom was a tutor for a time at this table. It was also a table I used for doing book work for the "horse business" when I was going to take over that business. I bought it from her after my dad died. It lived here in my home for years. She wanted it back to use as a kitchen table when she moved into a tiny apartment. I was promised it back. She never told anyone else that, though. She apparently only told my brother "Deb has been given enough, let the grand kids choose what they want, first! The table was apparently included in that directive!" Mind you, this was not written down, nor did I have a clue that this was what she was thinking. She always asked me to go through everything with her and help her to choose, who should get what. However, Covid hit and we never did this. We talked about still doing it off and on all that last summer, too! I just kept saying, "Lets focus on getting you well, we can do that later!"

I have been feeling my mom's energy a lot lately, as I have been organizing and rearranging furniture. It has been healing for me to feel her helping me to create a warm and inviting space. Not creating a space for her, as I had done for years and years, but I was now creating a space that feels good to my heart and soul. (Dan's too!)

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The universe has been busy delivering all kinds of magical experiences for us. One of them is better internet. If you know me, you know our home sits in an area that has poor internet service. Our phones work, but not all of the time. "Can you hear me now?" is a common phrase around here. It has taught me to be patient and calm during frustrating moments while teaching during Covid, while attending zoom meetings and while talking to people on the phone.

Interestingly, an offer came in the mail for us to sign up for fiber optic internet about 6 months ago. It is not yet installed, but it is being worked on in the surrounding area each and every week. The tubes are all in the ground on our street, next they will run the cables through the tubes to each of the boxes they put in a few weeks ago. It is so exciting. We should have a consistent internet system installed and usable by fall.

I have been seeing my birthday numbers everywhere. Encouragement to follow the feel, to keep creating, to move into and remain in heartfelt joy as I feel my way through organizing, creating and playing in this happy space that a home should be.

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Retirement has been a time of recovery. A process of healing from painful thoughts and words. Recovery from burn-out and trauma. A time to feel joy and happiness. A time to do what touches my heart and brings me joy. I am forever grateful for this moment in time. I welcome the next moment in time, into my life as it arrives, too! May it be filled with magical fairy dust and love!

Manifest a magical day!