Well Rounded Momma Opening

April, a midwife, gets a sunflower on her ankle

Last Saturday I was invited as a doula and henna artist to Well Rounded Momma's opening. A cool place to shop, take classes, and meet with douls'a and midwife April. I wondered if anyone would want to get henna done... it only took one person to start the snowball! I worked doing henna for 3 hours straight! It was most enjoyable for me, the 3 hours flew by. I was sorry to see it over. My husband took many pictures, and the little boys had a blast jumping in the bouncer and eating snow cones!

Mosiah and Maui... snow cones!
Sherry (with face paint) wanted lizards

Tomatoes

These are my cherry tomatoes! They're huge! And still growing! Best year for tomatoes, for me. Last couple growing seasons I've had none, so I'm pretty thrilled!!

Mosiah's Mother's Day Drawing

So Mosiah (my 4 year old) drew me a Mother's Day picture yesterday. That's all I wanted from my kids is a drawing. I love there artwork. So Mosiah says he's going to draw me a baby. I loved the idea, he draws babies with big curly hair. He drew his little brother (not really a baby, but I guess to Mosiah he is, he's 2 years old) He drew Maui and finished him off with a butu! If you don't know what a butu is (it's Ilokano) for penis. He said it's so he can pee! How thoughtful! He told me he wanted to be funny and silly, wow, he was! My first child out of 5 to draw anatomically correct Mother's Day Picture!

The Phone Call

A strange thing happened to me yesterday morning. I got a phone call from a man I hadn't talked to in 7 years. An ex boyfriend actually. A little history...

After being single for a couple years, I met Al. He's this big Hawaiian guy, generous and shy. We dated for about 5 months, I think... but I knew he didn't want more children and most likely wouldn't marry me. We stopped it, and it ended very friendly. This was the first breakup that I had ever had that was so friendly. I still cared for him, but I was being smart.

I soon met My husband. I still talked to Al a little when Lane and I were first talking. Al was suddenly heart broken. I was shocked, but smitten by Lane. Anyway.. Lane and I got serious and I never talked to Al again. The last thing he said to was, "If he hurts you, I'll come after him!" If you know any Polynesians, this is not just talk either. Al didn't know the incredible person my Lane is.

Well.. after catching up on how many children I have and work, etc.. the topic turned to religion. He said he has a Samoan friend who is a member of the church who wants him to go with him. Al is a member, but has been inactive since he was a 17. I was able to do a little missionary work with him, which was really cool. He said he wanted to make sure I was OK. He said he'd never call me again.

After this conversation... I sat back and thought about it all. I was able to sort of see what my life would be like if I would have stayed with Al. I would not have my two youngest darlings, I would probably be working out of the home.. and maybe not going to church.. who knows.. but what I really thought was interesting was that I wouldn't have the knowledge I have now. I would still be thinking in old Rebekah, sheep Rebekah, not the new free thinking positive Rebekah that I have grown into. So it was interesting to look at the contrast, and not that I needed to know if I made the right choice, but to see how much I have grown as a person.

I wish Al all the happiness in the world... I only wish he could feel the joy I feel everyday! I am so blessed!

Consciously Aware I an in a Positive Vibration

**This is taken from my Wordpress blog which I started and desided I liked blogger better... dated sometime in April!! :)

I used to be a very negative selfish person. I would pout when I didn’t get my own way. My negative attitude was a direct result of my selfishness. I wasn’t always this way. Childhood was wonderful. Full of orange popsicles on summer days and family vacations, my dad singing Elvis and Johnny Cash. Lots of sprinkler running and enough cookies to last a life time. So why did I change?
It must have been the evil teenage monster that inhabited my body. Not right away, though.. my selfishness appeared later in my teen years. Probably about 17 years old. I knew everything, and true love would save the world! I was steered on a very moral course all my life and when an unexpected tear in my family occurred, I began a decent. Now at 17, I began to fall from my standards. Selfishness settled in very easily, getting cozy in my habits. Redirecting my goals and my needs.
Now, I’m not going to get into my life story… I’ll write that book later, but I did want to explain why I am so different now.
After a series of running into brick-walls and falling into pits of despair because of my ridiculous choices… I finally met and married the coolest person on the planet. We met on-line. He’s a gifted and creative genius. Of course I wasn’t a depressed mess when we met, I did have to prepare myself. I was much more positive about life having many years to look back at my stupidity. I had learned some interesting ways to live a less stressed life. But my true education began after my husband and I were married.
The most interesting part is that I didn’t seek out this knowledge. It came to me. Now I understand the phrase “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. Bit by bit, line upon line knowledge has been given to me in one form or another. The most amazing thing to me is how it has increased in content and stamina.
So here I am, at what looks like to me the beginning of something so grand and incredible that at times I cannot contain my joy! If you are thinking on a high frequency you’ll understand. The pace is quickened. I see people on that same frequency I was once on, that low, melancholy frequency, and I feel so much compassion for them. It feels awful.
So now, I am consciously aware I in a positive vibration!

Thinking about Dad

My Dad passed in March 2001, first day of Spring. I had a dream about him last night. Nothing extraordinary.. he was just there. Sitting in a recliner eating something. My 11 year old ran up and jumped on his lap making Dad jump. We were all laughing, it was a beautiful scene. I miss him.

Dad was always singing. I put a few of his favorite songs that I remember him singing on my music list. He had a great voice, even recorded a few songs. He was a humble man, a barrel chested, giant of a man. I miss his huge hugs, and his enormous hands on my head giving me a blessing.

My husband and I are going to the temple this Thursday. I always feel closer to Dad when I go. I feel like he's smiling. Dad loved Jesus. He was always quoting scripture for whatever was happening in my life. I miss that. But I know I will see him again. I miss his words, his hugs, his voice, his counsel.. but his presence is always here when I need it. I believe out relatives passed on are a huge part of our lives. Helping to orchestrate things we wish to create into our lives. I know Dad helped me find his great-grandfather the other day.

I love you Dad!

Connection to My Ancestors

I feel connected to my ancestors. I've always done a little bit of genealogy here and there, but never really felt the closeness., until I prayed about it.

I love doing genealogy. I am a huge history buff, and love old time periods. I love to learn personal things about history and especially my own family. When I started doing genealogy in my early twenties I though it would be so easy since so far, all I found was the unusual names of my closest kin... Huff, Legg, Mullins, etc.. Imagine my horror when I got further in and found such dreaded common last names as Johnson, and Smith! (actually Smyth). But I moved on. Anyway... I've had several brick walls that have been so stubborn that I give up for a while before I come back to it. I would have tiny victories here and there, but some of the lines I ached to find were impenetrable. My brilliant husband said to me one day after I whined about not finding a specific person... "why not pray?"

OK.. so I did. I asked my Father in Heaven to help me find these parents of my great great grandfather Johnson. When I woke that next morning, I went to check my email and had an email from a very distant relative who was also searching for the Johnson line. She had not only names, but dates and birth places for the parents of my gggrandfather! I was thrilled and truly humbled and grateful! After praying my thanks a great feeling of connection to my ancestors came to me. I feeling that I knew they were part of this, and that they want to be found so work could be done for them in the temple. It was awesome!

So genealogy means more to me now than finding these names. I feel them as family.

One more...

Today I went to our massage therapist's to do some henna. I did some intricate, almost painful to continue work on her foot, a dinosaur on her daughters leg, and for her other daughter a lizard with some flowers..

About 2 hours into this enjoyable event.. Linda's ex husband came to get the girls. Linda got up to help get them off, and say good bye. While she was out of the room... her ex husband came up to me and said.. "Did you put that s**t on my girls?" I smiled, thinking oh, he must be joking.."yes, I did". (My cheerfulness was apparent). "Don't you ever do that again! That's coming from the father!" He said sternly. I was soo shocked. But honestly just shocked. I wasn't scared, I wasn't upset. I laughed to Linda later telling her what he said. She shook her head and told me of the mess he is.

I was so pleased with myself for letting that roll of my back. I would have been shaking and worried all about it if it had happened a year ago. I've grown that much! I love it!

Movin on up! Positively!!!

I am extremely grateful for the loads and loads of priceless information that has come into my life. My once very pessimistic, negative, melancholy attitude has been transformed to a life of joy! JOY! Yes, that word used mainly for Christmas. I feel it more than I ever had.. at least since before I was a wee child. My new knowledge of energy, positive thinking, laws of success, reiki and EFT has made me feel joy! I used to hate those kind of people.. the kind that were happy. I used to hate people!! But I have realized it feels so much better to be happy!

I am re reading Remembering Wholeness, and finding that the Stickman Concept that Leslie Householder teaches has helped me understand what Carol Tuttle teaches and vice versa. The Secret is only the beginning!

Thanks so our fabulous family for coming to Vegas to watch the Stickman Seminar, we all got to go out to eat with Leslie and Trevan. We were able to pick their brains a bit, and ask important questions. It was really just awesome to rub shoulders with about 6 couples all positive thinkers! I love it!

Checkout Stickman it rocks, really!! It's Bob Proctors baby. It's what we needed! http://www.thoughtsalive.com/stickmanvideo.php

And read Carol Tuttle's: Remembering Wholeness http://www.rememberingwholeness.com/