In the evening my family and I went to the meeting of Cub Scout.

Yesterday the regional director of the organization visited my daughter’s class and invited kids to the meeting. She briefly explained what they can expect from being a member. My daughter and all the other classmates were so excited to hear the director’s introduction. Many of her classmates said they would join.

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When my daughter asked me to go to the introduction meeting of Cub Scout, I was happy that she was interested in.

Back when I was a high school student, I joined at Cub Scout as an assistant leader. I worked as a volunteer so I didn’t get paid. In return I didn’t need to pay for anything such as a fee for camping loading or food. Among all of the benefits, I liked to experience as a leader. Those days, I wanted to become an elementary school teacher.

To become an assistant leader was easy for me at that time. One of my acquaintances told me about the opening. One Cub Scout leader was looking for someone for the position. I received his phone number and called him. He asked me to go see him for the interview. We liked each other right away and he gave me the position. I started participating their activity from the weekend of the interview day. I worked for them for about one year. Since I was friendly and outgoing, I could easily make friends with the kids. I enjoyed working in the nature with the pure hearted kids. It is still one of my precious experiences in life.

In my leader’s division, he set the members with only boys. He divided into two age groups. One was the younger group consisted kindergarteners to second graders. The other was older group consisted third graders to fifth graders. I was assigned to the older group. I liked my leader’s decision of separating older boys and younger boys. The younger boys are still hard to listen quietly. They need more supports and assistance than the older boys. Their abilities are obviously different.

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Once we got to the meeting room, the majority attendees were younger boys of kindergarteners to first graders. My daughter expected some of her female classmates to be there, but none of them were there.

The regional director started the meeting. She was probably in her 60s. She had a very short hair just like that of a man. She was very skinny and tall. She was wearing a uniform of a tight shirt and tight pants. With all approaches, she looked like unisex; man and woman.

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Today’s meeting was mainly about the information for adults.

She explained she needs adults’ volunteers to make this happen. Specifically five adults. When a volunteer person submits the application form, the organization will do the background check for the person and provide all the necessary online training. During her explanation, all the small boys got bored and fussy. They started making noise, and their noise got louder and louder.

When it comes to taking questions from attendees, mainly four parents started asking a bunch of questions taking in turns. Their questions continued on and on…

By the time the length of the meeting reached to one hour, one kindergartener quietly raised her hand. The regional director granted the girl to ask her question. Her question was simple and easy. She asked “how long more minutes this meeting will take?” We all busted into laughter. This little girl bravely asked the question that all the other attendees eager to ask. With her question, the meeting was ended. We could finally left the meeting room.

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I asked my daughter if she still wants to join this group. She shook her head. My husband and I got relieved to see her reaction.

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These are the reasons.

First is the costs. They can be pricey in all together. The member has to pay the monthly fee and buy a set of uniform and textbooks. The regional director says the financial aid is available, but most likely we are not qualified.

Second is how to set the age qualification. Their qualification if from 5 years old to 11 years old. As far as I saw in the attendees to the meeting, they will be nothing but young boys and they were pretty loud and fussy.

Third is how to set genders. This group is a combination of boys and girls. But at the meeting I didn’t see any other girl except for my daughter. I saw some older girls but they are older than 11 years old. They just attended the meeting for their younger brother. My daughter’s main reason to join was to make new female friends, but it seems to be no opportunities for that.

After we came back home, I was a bit disappointed to know this is not suitable for my daughter’s desire.

I hope we will find another good opportunity for my daughter to make new female friends around same age group.   

Here in Arizona, it is already the weather of spring. I started waking up in the middle of night for my allergic reaction. My runny nose and sneezes wake me up.

Here comes a throat steamer comes handy. I started using the steamer every morning.

I had a 60-minute massage session this morning.

I still have some stiffness in my body from the long flight. The massage therapist worked on long for my left shoulder.

It was a great massage. I wish I can go back to this massage therapist many times.

It was a federal holiday celebrated as President Day.

My friend needed to babysit her 2-year-old granddaughter all day long because her daughter had her regular work. My friend invited my daughter and me to go to the mall together. She wanted the little ones to play together in the jumping castle in the mall.

I thought it a good idea. My daughter likes to take care of little children.

After I saw them playing together for a while, I regretted my decision. My daughter could not fully enjoy herself. My daughter is so gentle and kind that she constantly paid attention to her 2-year-old friend. The little one was bossy around and my daughter respected the little one’s decision all the time. My daughter could not fully enjoy jumping to make sure she would not hit the little one moving around everywhere.

Both my daughter and I exhausted for babysitting the little one. I need to be more careful when it comes to a play-date with small children next time.

This evening I went for my recent routine with my friend. My friend and I walked for two hours.

We missed our routine walking for three times; twice for my trip to Japan and once for my family’s trip to planetarium.

We had lots of talk to catch up with for each other’s recent life.

I really enjoy walking with her. I appreciate for our new friendship.

Today is my brother’s birthday. Since his marriage, we haven’t talked closely like we did in our younger days.

Every year I think of my brother on his birthday. I wonder he still remembers my birthday.

I wonder why our relationship has broken like this. I miss talking with him. I miss our younger days when we were very close each other.

I talked with my mom on the phone.

Our conversation started same as last week. She called my name with crying. I could feel her sadness and loneliness from her sickness. I felt sorry I am not there for her to support her daily life.

After my mom calmed down, she started sharing her health updates. Her body cells get numbed more day by day. Now she has many things she cannot do by herself.

Then she gave me some good news for her. My dad finally started taking appropriate actions for my mom.

First he called the nursing-care product representative and started leasing some items, such as an electric nursing care bed, some handrails, and a walker.

Second, he hired some carpenters and improved some areas of first floor to make it barrier-free. The bathroom door originally opened inward is now opened outward. The entrance area originally had a huge gap of step has now a mild slope. Other areas originally had a huge gap step is now improved to a mild slope.

Third, my cousin gifted my mom a CD player and some music CDs. While I was there, my mom asked me for Hawaiian relaxing music. I used my iPad to turn on the music. My cousin was watching it and arranged a CD prayer and CDs for my mom. My mom was happy for his kindness.

Until I went to visit my mom, I never knew my mom loves Hawaii that much. She still mentions if she gets well, she wants to go visit Hawaii. She said listening Hawaiian music is now a great support for her to release her stress of physical pain.

Here comes a tax return season. My husband and I submit our tax form online on February 10th.

My husband’s corporate headquarters is located in another state, and so it does not collect the state tax from every pay check. We were given one option to choose; either to pay directly to State or choose our favorite organization and donate to it to get a credit for the state tax. We decided to donate to my daughter’s school.

At school, the vice principal gave me a request form. In the form, they asked me how we would like them to use our donation money. There are three or four options already written, so I marked the field trip for my daughter’s class.

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On the next day, my daughter’s class teacher shared the information with her class that we donated for their field trip. The class said thank you to my daughter. They are all excited for a field trip.

Her school does not have a field trip every year. At the kindergarten, there was no field trip. At the first grade, they went to the local pumpkin field. At the second grade, they went to the local high school and had some presentation and games. At the third grade, no field trip. Now at the fourth grade, we gave them an opportunity.  

I didn’t know until now that their field trip fully depends on the fund. I decided to keep donating to my daughter’s school to make their field trip happen.

I read a book しいたけ.の12星座占い　過去から読むあなたの運勢.

It was my first time to read this author’s book. I liked how he explains things in his way. I can tell from his writing style that he is pretty smart.

I think this author is around my age, maybe slightly younger than I. He mentioned he has lived through three different eras; Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa.

In his image, he feels Showa as red, Heisei as yellow, and Reiwa as silver-ish yellow.

I never thought of that. I thought he got that right. Now I totally agree with him.

I lived Showa era for my first 19 years. I left my parents’ house started living by myself when I was 22 years old. Thus, my Showa years are the memories of living with my parents. Considering that, yes, I do agree my Showa years were the energy of color red. I was energetic. I was outgoing and always on the fighting mode. I was always challenging something. I was surrounded by male energy.

My Heisei years were the 30 years of my age of 19 to 48. Again I agree my energy was switched to yellow. I started recognizing true myself and gradually started showing my uniqueness.

My Reiwa era has just started from my age of 49. I like the silver-ish yellow. To me, it seems like pursuing spirituality with keeping my uniqueness.

I have lived three different eras so far. I definitely like the current era the most. This era will be my favorite era in my life.  

I had an appointment with a new massage therapist this morning. I have been searching for the right massage therapist who exactly matches to my preference.

My preference is like this.

I want to have a massage therapist, or any other people who deal with my healing such as doctors, to be spiritual. I want them to fully believe in my own natural self-healing ability. I want them to fully believe that I will heal myself soon. I want them to know they are there for me to encourage and support me for the natural healing process. I don’t want to hear any negative information from them.

While browsing around massage therapists in the local area, I run into her official website.

One thing caught my eyes in her website is about her meditation session. She offers a group meditation session every week. I had a good feeling about it. The only downside of her website is the face picture of the massage therapists. In the picture she does not look friendly; to be honest, she looks kind of cold-hearted (maybe trying to look professional). But you never know. Meeting in person will tell me much more. So, I went ahead to make an appointment of a 30-minute free counseling session. 

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My appointment time was 10 a.m. I arrived at her office at the right on the time.

She greeted at the office door. We looked into our eyes and shook hands with smiling.

My first impression about her was pretty good.

After a small conversation with her, I felt good. She might be the right massage therapist for me.

I made an appointment for a 90-minute massage session with her on February 19^th.

I was a bit surprised to see how short our conversation was. It was still 10:13 a.m. when I arrived at my car in the parking lot. So, our conversation was only about 10 minutes, instead of a 30 minute appointment. I felt we had enough talk for our first meeting though.

I look forward to having her massage therapy on my next appointment.