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Romantic as it sounds, business travel can be brutal, especially when leaving a wife, newborn baby, or toddlers behind. Another missed connection, another tiny bag of peanuts, and another Godforsaken Marriott.
One of our Kwanzaa activities this year for Umoja meaning Unity. He traced and cut out 12 red, black and green handprints and glued them together to form a circle. It's now hanging in our Family Room, at his request. :)
LOLA Day 201
Well I have finally voiced how much I am disliking the fact that I am a single parent. Saying it out loud and admitting it first made me want to ball my eyes out and I actually did a couple of times. Now it feels good to have have admitted it to myself. Now I am also able to put a name to E's behavior and that he is in the terrible twos. It's not because I am not the perfect mom or his parents are getting a divorce, it's because it's his age and developmental stage. Phew I have not ruined my child and I am not a horrible person for not liking being a single parent.
Now that I have made these realizations I can start figuring out how I can move forward, accept them and stop feeling bad for myself. I made time today for the a simple year monthly webinar with Courtney Carver, the creator of Project333 (www.flickr.com/photos/angestar/14937551830/). I had no idea when I first heard about Project333 that I would actually get an opportunity to talk with Courtney, discuss minimalism, busyness and life in general. How amazing that here I am today in a webinar with her!!
I am just realizing that I have passed the 200 mark and the halfway point for my LOLA 365 project!! I like looking back through my photos and see that I truly have come a long way and I am looking forward to what the rest of this year will bring. I look back at the beginning of this and it seems like it was a lifetime a way, very foreign. A life I do not want to ever want to go back to. I have learned that I will not put up with the crap I used to. I have learned that I deserve to be treated with love and respect and I am strong enough to walk away from a toxic relationship. I have learned that even in the middle of a divorce I can start making and achieving personal and financial goals. I have learned that I CAN DO THIS.
In talking with a friend yesterday he mentioned that he is back to his "original new me". I like that, and I am going to use that. I am back to the original new Angela. It's a great concept, today you are you (That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!- thanks Dr. Suess) but that doesn't mean you have been sitting on a dusty old shelf, you are still shiny and new with great new things to explore and ways to grow. And you will always still this way as long as you continue to move forward in this life.
No matter what just keep going. Learning and growing is exciting, but also tiring and hard work. Soon things will become easier and second nature, then you can move onto your next exciting goal. I can do this. You can do this.
Quotes for today:
*She turned her can'ts into cans and her dreams into plans -Kobi Yamada
*Speak what you seek until you see what you've said -Unknown
*Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
Lost my way for a short time because the path looked like it had ended, when in fact it just went around the corner. Should have looked up because the trees made an X to mark the spot. I think there is a life lesson in here somewhere. My take is in which wooden tree will I put my trust ?
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.” ~Les Brown
“Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.” ~Charles L. Allen
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If I may...when my son was young and I was learning to skateboard and roller-blade with him, he would often say, "Mom, you fall like a girl." He was right, I'd never been taught how to fall, tuck and roll with it.
In my life as an adult, I've had alot of "learning assignments" on this...on falling...when I saw this tall lamp post tonite, it reminded how much better I've gotten, not ONLY at falling, but at looking up and getting back up!
Donnie McClurkin says it well, when he says, "You Can Get Back Up Again"
This is his first Kiwi Crate project, a Polar Bear catching game! He made his own polar bear paws and ears and covered a small ball with velcro so it sticks to the paws when he catches it! He did most of it by himself and he's so proud.
1.Time
is most important thing given ti anyone.We always tend to postpone things and suddenly years pass .So if you want to do things do them with fixed time periods and take them as serious
2.Relationships
These are always give you lessons .Everyone faces failed relationships in their life...
Kendi likes to watch one of his favorite shows on the iPad and draw characters and scenes from that episode. He's getting pretty good at it!
This is his first Kiwi Crate project, a Polar Bear catching game! He made his own polar bear paws and ears and covered a small ball with velcro so it sticks to the paws when he catches it! He did most of it by himself and he's so proud.
The most important positive impact of COVID-19 is on nature has started returning to homeostasis and balance due to our constantly wandering in many different places. For example, less air pollution and the return of wildlife to areas that were not seen for a long time....Read more: www.theworldguideline.com/positive-impacts-covid-19/
'Why should I tell people who I am? Sit here and see for yourself, and recognise me.' - His Divine Eminence RA Gohar Shahi
Any single parent knows the seemingly unending challenges in raising children by yourself.
I am a single father to three of the most amazing girls that I've ever met.
I've tried to raise them to be compassionate, considerate... to be responsible and to have good judgement... to understand that their actions can make some difference in our world... that they have within them the power to make changes to our reality...
Today I am so filled with pride.
On May 20th my daughter came home with a brood of tiny ducklings in her tee shirt.
She had tears in her eyes.
Mama duck was killed by a car and the ducklings were milling about their mama's smooshed body waiting for some miracle that would never come...
They must've just hatched because they were so tiny and helpless... cute with their fluffy yellow and brown down and their tiny little duckbills...
My daughters decided that they'd raise these little fuzzballs...
They researched and they learned all about the care of ducklings... they took turns staying up late to adjust the lights that kept them warm... they'd read next to them and watch for signs that they were too cold or too hot.
Every day they'd feed them and clean their pen.
In the first days we lost a couple and the house was filled with tears.
It was a heartbreaking time.
Dad had to have the sensitivity to let them absorb this lesson... that there is no substitute for the skill of a mother duck in raising her chicks... that the girls were doing their best... that nature was 'culling' the weakest chicks so that the strong could survive...
And dad had to leave the room for a few minutes after trying to teach them that one.
They had to raise these ducklings and I had to raise them.
Still the tears flowed and there were a couple of duck funerals in our backyard... one of my daughters got really upset and claimed 'this is all my fault!'
I let the lessons sink in and I encouraged them as much as I could... I never did anything more than capture the ducks when they got out...
They knew that they were doing this on their own.
As the little ducks grew the joy of watching them grow overcame the sadness of the early loss and their waddling around the yard made us all laugh and smile...
Each day the girls took care of them... each night they put them to bed in a tiny pen in our shed... in the morning they'd put them in another pen theyd built in the yard... give them baths with the hose and feed them...
The little ducks grew and they grew so fast and pretty soon we all knew it was time to let them go.
I had told them in the first days that if they could raise just one of the ducks to maturity that they'd done a good job.
They raised four.
Today we let the last one go... 'Feathers.'
She'd become quite 'imprinted' on us... she was the one I'd run into in my bathroom... she was the one who thought she was a person... she was the one who'd walk into the house if the door was left open... she was the one who expected a seat at the dinner table...
We drove in my truck to the pond near our house and my youngest daughter insisted at the last minute on carrying Feathers in her arms so she could give her one last hug.
There would be no more baths with her duck friend.
There were some tears as we said goodbye and Feathers waddled into the water...
She let out some quacks of joy and she looked really happy.
Then she ran across the water and joined her siblings who'd been in the pond for two days.
She started eating right away.
My daughters tears dried up and they became filled with pride as Feathers started swimming and cavorting with the others...
They knew right there that they had done this...
I told them how proud I was of them and gave a round of hugs and took some pictures.
The proudest one at the pond right there was me.
It's moments like this that make all of the challenges and all of the struggle so worth it... these moments are the payoff.
Moments when you see the product of the way you've raised your children.
These girls will make a difference in our world.
They already have.
‘Divine and evil cannot coexist. One has to depart in order for the other to arrive. - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
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