3rd Adoption anniversary

Today is the 3rd anniversary of the day we became a family. We celebrate our adoption anniversary by doing something fun each year. The first year we stayed here for a week and went to Universal Studios and Wet & Wild. The next year we stayed close to home and went out for dinner and dessert. This year we decided to go away again. We’ll be visting Cypress Gardens for two days and staying here, in the suites, for two nights. We’re really looking forward to it! My mom is coming with us also .

My youngest (age made a banner for me and one for my husband. We had talked a few months back about Mothers Day in May, and how it doesn’t personally mean anything to me…because it’s not the day I became a mother. I told her that my mothers day is October 30th. So on the banner she wrote “Happy Mommy’s Day! Happy Anniversary! Thank you for being my mom”. She also made a card for my mom.

More links

Here are some websites my eight year old daughter has been visting.

Ardene dress up
art pad
Nasa Kids
Sky Breeze dress up games
The Space Place
Painting
Childrens stories

Mimi Doe

I subscribe to Mimi Doe’s Spiritual Parenting newsletter. As with everything else, I take what I need and leave the rest. Here’s what I “took” away from her last e-mail.

A SEASON OF ABUNDANCE
We can change our mindset and approach each encounter with our children from a higher place – a place centered in Spirit and love. When we parent with love, our children take away a positive cherished feeling; actions that seem little or unimportant to us have the potential to cause a profound reaction in our children. Pay attention and counteract the harshness our world wants to impose on kids. Always remember that children are citizens of the spiritual world as well as the physical world. You honor their souls as you acknowledge they are spirit in human form. It might take kids a while to get used to their cumbersome, limiting form – so have patience. When you strengthen their natural connection to spirit you give them the gift of an abundant future.

Enjoy what you have and remain aware of the abundance that fills your life. Point out all the wonderful bounty in your child’s life. Be open to the gifts that are given to you. Look at your day as being filled with endless choices, endless opportunities, and endless growth. It is indeed another day and there is always another way. Remember that abundance is a state of being, an awareness of the gifts right here, right now. Try a “gratitude attitude” and give your children the gift of abundance thinking. When my kids were younger I would ask them each day, “What gifts do you think the Universe is going to deliver to you today?” They became bounty hunters, abundance seekers, and grateful recipients of a full moon glowing for them or an astonishing leaf sighting or snow that packed perfectly into a snowwoman.

As much energy as our children share with us, it is also important we fill ourselves with energy from our own wellsprings so that we can begin anew. When we are centered and energized we are able to give to our children without draining ourselves, and to receive without draining them. Our children need the same energizing tools. Being aware of breath is a simple but effective energy enhancer. Remind children to take deep breaths throughout the day. Whenever we are feeling tired we can breathe in the energy of the universe. Before each meal we can habitually breathe in and out deeply a few times. We can take breaks throughout our days and step outside to breathe the fresh air, feeling it flow through our bodies.

Mimi Doe is the founder of SpiritualParenting.com and the award winning author of, “NurturingYourTeenager’s Soul” and “Busy But Balanced.” Mimi’s free newsletter,Spiritual Parenting, has over 50,000 subscribers from around the world.Sign up on the website: Spiritual Parenting

Day 150

Ren shared this cute site on her blog. I’ll show it to the girls when they wake up tomorrow but I played with it first. Here’s the girl I created…

Day 149

Our dirt bike is up and running once again (Thanks Gary!). Shawna is SO GOOD on it! Right now, she’s the perfect height and weight for it. Jacqueline is still to small to ride herself and she and Billy are to much weight on it together. Cimion rides it but he’s getting to tall for it.

They mostly ride in our yard but our neighbor has been letting ride on his empty lot before he puts down grass. I have to get some pictures up here but it’s a Panterra Sandcat NT.