I had a sound sleep and woke up at 5 a.m. in the morning. My husband was awake too. We started packing up our belongings. We told my mom-in-law not to prepare our breakfast because she was very sick yesterday. After we finished packing our items in the car, my husband went to check his mom. She still looked very sick so that she decided to keep distance from us. Instead of giving a hug to each other, we waved to each other from a good distance.

On our way back the traffic was light. We arrived at our house safely and it took us much shorter than we expected.

While our usual evening walk, we called my mom-in-law. She sounded healthier than the morning. She said after she saw us off, her heigh fever went down so that she could go to the grocery store in the morning and did some house chores in the afternoon. We are glad that she is in the healing process.

As usual for the second night of Navajoland visit, I slept very well. In my dream my late dad-in-law visited me. He gave me an advice that we should go to the local grocery store for cardboard boxes in order to organize his items. I never thought of that. I thanked him for his great advice.

I shared the advice with my husband. We called the local grocery store and talked with a male worker at the warehouse. Luckily the man sounded nice and kind. We told the man we would stop by at his workplace after breakfast. When we got there, the man took us to the back of the warehouse, where he kept about 30 boxes in a shopping cart for us. We thanked his kind support. The half of the empty boxes were for eggs. I love these egg boxes as they were a hand sized and sturdy, and with hand holes.

We swung by at one more place, the homesite office. My late dad-in-law paid the initial fee for our homesite lease fee two years ago. The receipt does not say the payment’s deadline, but I thought we should pay for the second payment. When we arrived at the office, the female worker told us the second payment is $60, and it must be in the form of a money order. They don’t take a credit card payment nor a personal bank check. We told her we would send it through the post mail.

After we went back the trailer, we worked on organizing my late dad-in-law’s office. My husband doesn’t want to trash everything right away, so we decided to keep them for the time being. We wiped off the sand and dust from the items and organized them in a box. Then we went to his tool shed and organized items to clear some room for the boxes.

All day long, I didn’t see my mom-in-law. My husband went to her house to check on her. She was very sick with high fever. She slept most of daytime. While she was awake, she had coughs and headache. We prayed for her to regain her good health back soon.

In the afternoon I made a tea from the pine needles that I collected from our homesite and soaked in water for a 24-hour. I expected it to taste bitter, but it was not that bad. My family and I had the tea and we all liked it with the fresh fragrance.  

For two days straight of yesterday and today, we worked a lot for the trailer and all my body parts were feeling sore. Still feeling good though, as we made lots of improvements and progresses.

Last night my mom-in-law was feeling sick and didn’t join to us for the night snack.

In the morning she brought a breakfast sandwich for us. I don’t eat breakfast normally, but I decided to thankfully receive her kind hospitality. Also, I was hungry in the morning. She said she had been sick last night with coughs and high fever. She went back to her house and took some more rest.

After breakfast, we fixed the water leakage for the swam cooler. The water leaked from the water valve to connect from the main water pipe to the swamp cooler. We drove to the local DIY store and purchased a Teflon tape. My mom-in-law still looked being sick and she asked us to get her some grocery and meds for the high fever.

After we came back home, we fixed the water leakage. Now we can use the swamp cooler for the night.  

We cooked out some T-bone steak and vegetables with charcoals. It tasted great cooking outside. By lunch time my mom-in-law came out from the house and joined us for the lunch.

After lunch we needed to go to the bigger town to purchase a tarp. My mom-in-law wanted to join us to the stores.

On the way back home, we stopped by at the zoo. The zoo and the museum were closed after the Covid since 2020. They recently reopened them to public. The zoo has become nicer than before. During they closed, they worked on making lots of progresses for the visitors. I think they did a great job.

We went to homesite and covered the shed floor with a brand-new tarp and put lots of cinder blocks on top of the tarp.

Then the remainder of the day, we engaged on working for the trailer. We fixed the rainwater gutters, some roof singles patched up, and organized my late dad-in-law’s office. By the time we sat down for dinner, our body started feeling sore all over. We really worked hard today and made lots of improvements for the trailer.

I woke up earlier than normal and cooked our lunch on the road. We left our home around 8 a.m. as scheduled leaving for Navajoland. It was a Wednesday day morning, but the traffic was heavy. Maybe many families are on vacation trip with their children.

We arrived around8 p.m. We came back to Navajoland just 1.5 month ago, so my mom-in-law didn’t cry like she did last time.

After we ate the chicken fried rice that my mom in law cooked for us, we went on a walk to our homesite. We were shocked to see the tarp covered on our shed’s foundation floor were torn down and the wooden floor was exposed under the sun. The tarp we purchased before last winter was the expensive one because it was a heavy-duty and thick one. It was still fine on our last visit. According to my mom-in-law, last month they had a high wind and heavy rain and that was the cause of the tarp’s tear. We will have to purchase a heavy-duty tarp again on this trip.

On our homesite, we have two pine trees. They are still very young as we found them after we received a homesite permit in August of 2019. During the counselling with a homeopath, she suggested me to drink a pine needle tea as I am allergic to pine tree. When I heard the advice, I thought of these pine trees on our homesite. So, I went to the two pine trees and asked for a permission from them and took some pine needles from each tree. I washed them and soaked them in water for one night.   

It was a busy day. As a preparation for the upcoming trip, I cooked some foods and made them frozen so that I can take them to the trip. We are all looking forward to visiting my mom-in-law and Buckers (our Chihuahua dog.)

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My desk top has been showing issues for the past two years. It sometimes (not always) makes a really loud fan sound. I always turn it off at night before I sleep. In the morning my computer sometimes shows black screen and is reluctant to turn it on normally. I purchased this computer in 2011, so it has been working for 11 years. It is Windows 8.1, and Microsoft will stop its supports to Windows 7 and 8 on January 2023. I appreciate my desktop computer for working for such a many years. It has helped me with my job and hobby.  

In the night I purchased a new desktop online. Feeling kind of sad, but I am not going to trash the old one. I will keep using it until its end.

Since last Thursday when we swam in the swimming pool, my daughter has suffered from the pain in the left ear. We tried many things including taking homeopathy remedies, drying the ear hole with a hair drier, and  laying down the left ear on the bottom. None of them worked so far. I thought of taking her to the ER, but on my second thought, I know the doctor would not do anything except for giving us some advices and we would get charged a huge amount of money.

In my meditation I asked my family spirits for advice. A vision of my friend’s smiling face popped up. So, I called her and asked for advice. She recommended to use alcohol pad and wipe the ear hole. She also mentioned about an ear drop to get rid of ear wax. I have both of an alcohol pad and a brand new ear drop. I tried two methods to my daughter. Several hours later my daughter told me she does not have a pain anymore. I don’t know which method worked, but all in all I am so happy that she is not suffering from a pain anymore. As always, thank you to my family spirits and to my friend for saving us.  

I still have some dreams where I was furious to somebody. It has continued almost every day. I interpret this in a positive way. I feel the homeopathy remedies are working for me so that I can express my anger in the dream. The anger might be something I forgot to deal with, in my childhood. I work on healing my inner-child’s forgotten emotions every day in my dream. I am happy for doing this right now.  

Nowadays for some reason, I keep on singing to myself the The B-52’s “Roam.” Usually this type of thing happens when you listen to a certain song through the car radio and the melody stuck in your head for some hours even after you get off the car. But in my case, this song stuck for several days. I think of my late mom. She wants me to enjoy traveling the world, just like what I did while I was single. “Roam if you want to, roam around the world.” While I am writing this, I feel my mom’s smiling energy. Yes mom, I am enjoying my life. I am not traveling the world, but I will, once the things calm down. Then you can enjoy the travel with me.

We all slept well last night on the hotel’s bed. None of the other guests were loud. The complimentary breakfast was also good. They served some hot meals of eggs and potatoes, along with cold foods of bagels, breads, and yogurts. According to my daughter, they had a sign that they can provide oat milk for lactose intolerance guests. I didn’t notice the sign, but I thought it was thoughtful of them to prepare alternative milk for the people like us.

After breakfast, we went to the swimming pool again. When we arrived at the entrance, a big group of people were wiping off their body and about to leave the place. So, again same as the previous day, we enjoyed swimming in the pool all to ourselves. We fully enjoyed staying at this hotel. We would love to come back to this hotel when we visit the cousin’s family again.

Before we headed back to our area, we stopped by at the cousin’s house again. We had a nice visit with them. We will see them again in next month at Navajoland.

I woke up earlier than usual and prepared for bento box for my family. It took us about 2.5 hours to get to my husband’s cousin’s house.

Once we got off from the car, we were surrounded by the strong heat. It was 111 Fahrenheit, but the cousin told us it can get up to 115 Fahrenheit. We spent some hours at her house. My daughter was so happy to see her kids. Soon they went to their bedroom pf upstairs and started playing together. The cousin and her husband offered us their homemade BBQ beef and side dishes. Everything tasted great.

After lunch, we headed to our hotel where it was located a 30-minutes’ drive away from her house. Once we checked in-, we invited the cousin and her family to our hotel’s swimming pool. The pool was vacant. We could swim and relax at the pool and hot tub without any other visitors for three hours straight.

We went back to the swimming pool after dinner. Again, nobody was at the swimming pool so we enjoyed the outdoor pool and Jacuzzi all to ourselves.

We all liked the hotel bed mattress. It was nice and firm. There was no loud noise at night. We all slept very well.

Even though it was the middle of monsoon, we didn’t have even a drop of rain tonight. I thanked my family spirits for answering my prayer. I asked them to keep the sky clear during our trip.