Today's retreat:
Before the kids woke up-
Yoga
massage with my mini-massager I got for mother's day
While kids ate breakfast-
Gathering the Whole- exercise from Jennifer Louden's Women's Retreat Book
Wrote a letter to a friend
Read during soccer practice
Ate a good lunch with the kids
Played Jr. Monopoly
After kids went to grandma's and grandpa's with hubby-
Artist's Way week 7
spontaneous writing on well-being
print out kids routines for when school starts
drawing
for the rest of the day my plans are:
make banana bread and cook something with all our garden tomatoes
watch a movie
planning- school year, goals, coaching, gettting my head emptied of misc. projects, planning the week ahead
scrapbooking or genealogy

 
I am doing the Artist Way week 7 this week. Questions and answers:
One thing I like about my town
It is close to everything I need, it is beautiful and the people are nice
I think I have nice
co-workers
I am taking a greater interest in
scrapbooking and coaching
I believe I am getting better at
standing up for myself

 
What kind of child are you?

I have been reading a book called Stress Management by Gerard Hargreaves. Can you tell what kind of week I've had, again. In it he writes Everyone's Bill of Rights:
I have the right to:
1. Set my own limits
2. Be treated with respect
3. Be listened to and treated seriously
4. Express my opinion, thoughts and feelings appropriately
5. Ask for what I want
6. Make mistakes
7. Choose not to assert myself
8. Refuse requests or negotiate
9. Say "I don't know" without apology
10. Ask for time to think

These really are helping me set better boundaries at wor and voice my thoughts.

 
Today I am going through a back log of papers and lists of websites I wanted to visit. Here are some of the more interesting sites:
Play Scrabble online
Tons of Self-Improvement resources
Pathfinder for all the Time publishing magazines like InStyle, Cnn, and Real Simple
Fun, daily, newsletters
Consumer World for comparative prices, buyer beware stories, and other consumer resources
Kiplinger for personal finance information

 
Show me the power of vision. Teach me to see ahead. Let
me fly upon your wings and view the world from afar so that I
may learn to detach myself, and still remain whole in all that
lies ahead.
--Vision Hawk

 
he world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.

- Saint Augustine

We got the house really, really clean for my aunts and my dad came up Saturday also. The family helped out tons! But the past two weeks really wore me out. Now this week, I need to concentrate on getting the kids prepared for school. Then the week after that is preparing for Labor Day Weekend camping. It seems August has been nothing but preparing for one thing after another.

 
Here is a link to a e-mail list that sends daily suggestion on Making your Marriage Marvelous. I am always under the idea that marriage can be fun and great, but it takes work. And you don't get out because you are at a point where it gets hard.

 
I have been busy reorganizing my office. My DH got me a new corner desk with his bonus money. Wasn't that sweet? But, now I am decluttering and deciding what I really need to put back into my desk. I am also preparing for my aunt's visit on Saturday.

 
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can
satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another
world " --C.S. Lewis

 
The party was awesome. The kids had such a good time and tried to stay as out of the way as possible.

Grammardog has a great list:

Songs that...


Reminds you of an ex-love:

Friends and Lovers - Don't remember

Reminds you of an ex-friend:

Anything by the Thompson Twins- not really an ex-friend, just out of touch

Reminds you of your childhood:

Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog

Makes you cry:

The Rose

Makes You Laugh:

Amish Paradise by Weird Al

Makes you wanna dance:
Closer to Free— The Bodeans

Reminds you of the one you want:

Livin' on a Prayer- Bon Jovi

Makes you very, very sleepy:

Music Massage

You wish you wrote:

Evergreen-sung by Barbara Striesand

You wish had been written for you:

Everything I do I do for You- Bryan Adams

Fills you with complete joy:

Soak Up the Sun — Sheryl Crow

You never want to hear again:

The Macarena

You want to get married to:

You're the Inspiration- Chicago

You want played at your funeral:

When we all get to heaven — gospel song

Makes you want to mosh/slam dance:

Smells like Teen Spirit-Nirvana

Sums up your teenage years:

Young and Innocent from St. Elmo's Fire

You used to hate but now love:

Sweet Child o Mine-Guns and Roses

You like to wake up to:

Walking on Sunshine

You like out of your parents record collection:

All the Simon and Garfunkel records

Your parents like out of your collection:

the Rachmaninov collection

Reminds you of your first crush:

Hello-by Lionel Richie
You love which is from one of your favorite movies:

Hopelessly Devoted to You — from Grease

Makes you think of the moon:

Shadows of the Night- Pat Benetar

Makes you think of being alone:

Homeward Bound-Simon and Garfunkel

Real Simple Magazine has 32 classics for your wardrobe. Now if I can find the same type at affordable prices.