A REALLY Fun thing happened when the four of us were playing Mouse Trap! What a fun game that is anyway! Good Grief, a classic! I won my first Mouse Trap game in 2nd grade in a national drawing competition : ) So, we were playing the game and in the beginning I was way behind my three competitors; even landing on the space that sent me back to Start!
On a whim I declared out loud: "I'm going to Win!" LOL.
When we did all make it into the end spaces that circles the trap, and when the game was down to just Anna and me (after she successfully caught first one and then the other competitor in the trap!), when she took her turn she landed on the space under the cage. A Ha! : ) Before I threw the die for my turn, I saw that I needed to get a 4 to land on the Turn Crank space! I suddenly found myself instinctively blowing four times on the die in my closed hand, threw it, and it was a 4! "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" :D "Mouse Trap!" How Cool Is THAT!? ! :D Everyone was excited and laughing! It was So Magical and Surprising! Thank you Great Grandpa, for teaching me that trick when I was a little girl! :D
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As you may know, I'm HAPPILY, PEACEFULLY, HARMONIOUSLY orphaned from my misguided, abusive FOO (family of origin), since before Thanksgiving. (Whom I love with all my heart and fought my whole life to bring healing to, to no avail.) As you also may know I snail-mailed them this letter:
I don't know what could be more clear, do you?
Yet, I've since received an unwanted package to my daughters from my ex-mother, and three unwanted cryptic messages from my ex-sister. I do not wish to engage with them, so I chose to ignore them. (Except for my brief reply to her first message where I asked "Did you read my letter? Did mom read it? Did David read it?" She ignored it.) And we did not open the package. All here in our home are in agreement about that. I chose not to return the unopened package because I didn't want to hurt my mother, even though she had hurt me and all of us, by sending it.
My mother and sister hurt me by flagrantly disregarding my letter, my feelings, my request, my needs, and by once again treating me like all those things don't matter. I also recogonize, however, that they are trying to love me---the only way they seem to know how.
May They Be Blessed. May They Be Healed.
Their actions caused me a lot of emotional upset in the moment. And I've taken extra measures to block them from contacting me via computers and phones.
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Watching "It's A Wonderful Life," this year, a tradition in our little family on Christmas night, was the most special, most magical, and most meaningful it's EVER been for me! I'm not sure how to explain it! I think it has everything to do with my spiritual growth though! And especially Matt Kahn's teachings! www.truedivinenature.com
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Oh my, there are so many other wonderous things to write about our Christmas!
But I hate long blog posts! : )
