In a few more days, John and Karen will be leaving to go back home. I think we are just getting to know each other better, feeling warm, cozy and comfy, and well, I think they belong here, close by so we can keep and eye on them, and have good times together, like water fights, etc.
Tonight Karen and I did some calligraphy, and at the moment she is surrounding herself by candles in the meditation room sitting upon a Persian rug doing bedtime yoga. (Mom will have to see to believe) Where is my camera? Honestly, I would not like to disturb her, she is really doing a great job of making a proper yoga space in which to breathe and use correct postures, using my really cool yoga book. Karen, or Princessa as we like to call her is very interested in everything, and I am so happy she decided to light candles tonight, al by herself to make this special environment.
We have many candles here, as we light them at dusk, especially in winter when days are very short, along with oil lamps. We love the change in atmosphere it creates for us, and the way it takes the chill out of the air.
I can see that Karen would begin very easily to enjoy a quiet meditative life…uuu uummm, right?
Well, she would attempt it anyway.
John is watching a movie, and eating (he has one of those bottomless pits. I should make cookies!) My oven doesn’t work, but I have a convection oven I could make a few in. He is excited about his upcoming birthday, he will be 14 next week, and he is crazy for a Marshall amp the mini set. It is 300.00 here in Seattle, and we have taken him to the music store so many times to use it, and that guitar he wants, a Gibson something, the one used by some ACDC band member. I should remember, because he talks of it so often. He has been downloading music on itunes and making a few cd’s, It thrill shim, and he plays his guitar a lot, is lost without it.
John is becoming very affectionate, and his sense of humor is widening, and he is becoming more playful with us, learning that we like to have water fights, and play innocent fun tricks, and that even bummer number 1 doesn’t mean much except a good laugh!
Karen swam tonight at the Y. She called an hour early for me to come get her, and I left, and on my way there about 3 blocks from home she asked if I had left, because she changed her mind, and wanted to swim more. I said I would come watch her, and she put her wt suit back on and swan, and I watched a read ad local paper. It was very, very nice, and I will miss taking her to swim every night from 7 to 10 pm. Last night John went, too. He usually goes with her.
I wish I had more time to take Karen someplace special, we are running out of time and I have a MD appointment tomorrow, and we have a few friends coming tomorrow to see them. I have a lot to do tomorrow, in every direction one can go in. And I need to clan house more, oh well, if it isn’t properly clean…so what? There are kids in this house! I can always blame them; see teenagers are good for something!
Karen has finished one segment of yoga, I see a relaxed difference in her already, she just walked in here, and she was calm and collected, it is amazing what a little yoga practice can do for a person. Daph., maybe you want a shrine room downstairs where the kids can go to do yoga after a bath each night before bed, that and a warm cup of chamomile tea, and they will sleep like angels, and early on.
These two do stay up very late, it is almost impossible to get them to bed, and Karen is the night owl, John falls to sleep watching a movie, but she doesn’t Yoga is perfect as a discipline for her, and It was not my idea. I merely left my yoga book out. She even remarked that she needed a room that was uncluttered and free of electronics to do her yoga.
I told her the room she is staying in is my reiki and mediation room, and it is a sort of mess now, so she chose the large hallway to practice, and is doing so well. I predict this one will become serious about yoga at some point in her life, maybe beginning soon. So Daph, and John, be prepared to make a room for this at home!
I am pleased that some influence of mine that I have not intended to make happen is rubbing off. Karen loves the house and the children’s books, Both she and John read The Garden of Abdul Gazazi by Allsburg last night.
Karen has found my abacus, it is a Japanese one, I told her she could have it if she learned to use it. It costs about 18.00. She didn’t learn how, but she took it and said she would learn how, I guess we will see.
These are two very sweet, precious children, and I want them to stay longer, and always be closer to me! But thank you Daph, and John for loaning them to us for a while to enjoy!
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