The year of 2018 is almost ending. It is time for me to review my footsteps of 2018.

Every year, at the end of the year, it is my family’s routine to create our vision board for the upcoming new year.

When created my current vision board at the end of last year, I picked up any texts and pictures that caught my eyes followed by my intuition.

I am reviewing this year based on my vision board of 2018.

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As for the pictures, I put a brown dog and a brown wooden house in the left bottom. It meant to me to be grounded.

Overall, I see lots of green color from plants and tree leaves. It meant to me the healing energy.

On the right hand, I see a colorful tulip flower bouquet. The red, purple and yellow meant to me a play time.

On the middle, I see a long water fall. It meant to me the pure energy, supports, and messages were flowed down from Heaven to me on Earth.

On the top half, I see three flying birds. It meant to me spiritual messages.

On top, I see lots of blue color. It meant to me Heaven and spirit world. I could connect with Heaven and spirit world often this year.

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There are three texts.

— Feel Alive

— Explore New Avenues

— Recover Faster!

I was amazed these three texts wonderfully predicted my year of 2018. This year I had worked on recovering my good health.

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Starting January, I changed my diet. I switched my main food from white rice to brown rice for grain resource, and from animal meats to sea weeds and beans for protein resource.

In February, I made my first homemade miso from scratch.

In March I purchased a muscle training program from a Japanese young man. Since then I have continued the 10-minute muscle training every day. It now has become my daily habit.

In April I purchased some online massage courses and studied a variety of different massage techniques.

In May I started taking an acupuncture treatment. This was new treatment for me. It has been helpful for my energy to flow smoothly.

In June my family and I went to a short trip to Phoenix for my passport renewal. My in-laws joined our trip, and our time together made our relationship better than before.

In August I purchased two online courses of macrobiotic from a Japanese married couple. Their courses taught me many tips for treating food ingredients. I have started enjoying preparing our food and staying much longer in the kitchen than before.

In September I made my first homemade Umeboshi, salted plum.

In November I attended a 2-days Hay House Writer’s Workshop in Las Vegas. My in-laws joined this trip again, so that our connection got even closer.

All in all, this year treated me very nicely. It was my Chinese horoscope year, the Dog year. this year has been peaceful and relaxing to me.

Thank you to the year of 2018. Thank you for providing me lots of new avenues which I will continue for the rest of my life.

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My daughter is a role model girl at school. She is polite, well behaved, nice and kind to others. She has been like so, even since she was very small.

As a parent of her, I have been thanked and praised for my daughter’s well behavior by her teachers. Of course I am happy and proud of that. But once in a while I worry about my daughter. I feel she has to enjoy being a child while she can. So my small wish for my daughter was to enjoy being a child. I didn’t say that to her. I just had such feeling only in my mind.

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I want to share an interesting synchronicity. It is about the mysterious connection between mother and daughter. A daughter can indeed read her mother’s wishes in mind.

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We have a coffee table and a study desk in the living room. My daughter enjoys creating her artworks on either the coffee table or a study desk, so these two have naturally become hers.

The other day I scolded my daughter for leaving a mess around the table and the desk.

Her reply was something unexpected to me.

She turned to me and looked me into my eyes, and told me;

“A child enjoys making a mess. A child does not keep things well organized. Childhood days go by so quickly. I’ve got to enjoy my childhood while I can.”

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I burst out laughing. This is exactly what I thought in my mind secretly.

She is right on saying that. She has to enjoy her childhood while she can.

Same thing applies to me.

I should enjoy taking care of my small daughter as much as I can while I can. Once she grows up, I might miss cleaning up her messy desk and table. This time, NOW, is happening only now, only once for everybody.

Time is limited. We’ve got to enjoy everything while we can.

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Back in April, I had a diabetes eye checkup. There I was charged twice. One is the correct amount to a patient, and the other is supposed to charge to an insurance company. The accountant charged both fees to me.

It was a simple mistake. I talked with the representatives of the eye doctor’s office as well as the insurance company. We all knew it was mistakenly charged to me, and the wrong charge had to be refunded to me.

For some reasons, the eye doctor’s office did not take the appropriate action for many months.

I lost the counts on how many times I called the eye doctor’s office and asked the status. I called at least ten times.

The eye doctor’s office has several office workers who pick up a phone call. All of them were rude and arrogant. They would put me on hold. After I waited for more than five minutes, somebody picked up the phone and I needed to explain the situation from the beginning. The next person transferred my call to the other person and put me on hold, and nobody never picked up the phone. I never could talk to the right person who could take the correct action right away for me since last April.

It is now already in December. This problem was not solved yet.

I called the eye doctor’s office again. An old woman picked up the phone. She sounded mean and rude from the beginning. I asked her to connect me to the accounting representative. The person asked me in a rude tone “Why?” When I explained the situation from the beginning, the person asked me again in a very rude tone with a sigh “Name?”

I just couldn’t believe her rude attitude. I asked her to connect me to the management or somebody who is in charge of the office.

Surprisingly the person told me she was the management.

I asked her to deal with their mistake as soon as possible. She said she would do her best but she could not guarantee anything. I could not believe this person is the management. How come the management cannot care about her clients at all?

FYI: As of the end of the year, they never corrected their error. I didn’t receive the refund for their mistake charge to me.

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I don’t know why these kinds of things happened to me. I honestly don’t know why I need to deal with these rude and arrogant people.

I am sincere, nice, and kind. I deserve to be treated in the same way as I treat others. I want to deal with only the same energy leveled people as mine. I keep focusing on only high vibration and high energy, and I thought that is the way to attract only high energy people. How I did wrong?

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After my meditation, I got this block of thoughts from my family spirits.

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Even though you are focusing on only good things, sometimes you run into the low energy people.

The reason is simple.

…Drum roll please….

Don’t you remember, you are on the planet Earth? This place is the place of diversity!

There are a variety of spiritual leveled souls here on Earth. This is the main reason why people reincarnated to Earth to experience the vibrational diversity. Therefore, of course there are a whole bunch of low energy people everywhere.

All you can do is to stay positive, no matter what. Do not get affected by low energy people.Every day you are blessed to have a variety of exercises and practices for this.

Enjoy this diversity while you can. Once you are done and go back to your spiritual homeland, you will miss the mess from the diversity.

Yes you are right. You can enjoy solving the mess. And you can do it.

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President Trump announced all federal employees will have an extra paid holiday on Christmas Eve, December 24th 2018.

Unfortunately it applies only to the federal employees. For the other workers, this day is still the normal work day. My husband is one of them. He will need to go to work.

The numbers of National holiday are different between in Japan and in America. In America they have only ten days for federal holidays a year. It is lesser than that of Japanese.

In Japan we have 16 National holidays. When I was working as a full time employee for a company in Japan, most companies offered extra paid holidays to their employees during Oshogatsu (beginning of the year), Obon (middle of August), and Nenmatsu (end of the year). Thus, most full time employees had extra 10 paid holidays in addition to 16 National holidays. Besides of that, the companies provided their employees with paid holidays up to 20 days a year.

While I was working as a full time employee, I took all benefits for granted.

In the latter half of my 30s, I started working as a temporary worker/freelancer. It was when I finally started appreciating for the benefits I had received during my years of working as a full time employees. Working as a temporary worker/freelancer was tough in terms of benefits. I needed to pay all the commute fee (public transportation fee of buses and trains), along with the other benefits such as health insurance fee, out of my pocket. I did not get paid for National holidays.

I am not going to end this story as a complaint for working as a temporary worker/freelancer. It is not my point.

My point is there is always two sides of a same coin. It is always up to us to choose which side of a coin. Also, it is always up to us on how we see it. Either appreciate it or complain it.

I chose working as a temporary worker/freelancer as my own choice. From this choice, I had much more freedom in choosing career. I could try out before I deeply dived in to a certain occupation. I could freely take a long term vacation. I had less responsibility on the job.  

After I went through a variety of different types of employment and career, I think it was beneficial for me to have experimented them.

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This morning my daughter took an extra time to leave the house. She was slower than usual in putting her shoes and tying her shoelaces. We left the house by 4 minutes later than normal. We didn’t worry, because it was still much earlier than the bus arrival time. We knew we would make it.

Our neighbor boy joined us walking. While three of us were walking our way to the bus stop, we saw two kids were running very fast in our far distance ahead. We looked at each other’s face in bewilder. It could not be the bus arrived at this time. It was too early for the bus to come.

In next moment though, we saw the yellow school bus passed by the other street. For some reasons, the bus came much earlier than usual this morning. It was our very first time to have missed the bus. We were shocked.

I asked my daughter and the neighbor boy if they wanted me to give them a ride to school. They said they could walk to school. So, three of us started walking to school.

When we were passing by at the bus stop, our other neighbor mom pulled over her car in front of us. She was on her way to give her two boys a ride to school. It was nice of her that she offered us a ride. I jumped in the passenger’s seat. The four kids squeezed in the back seat. The kids seemed to be tight and squished, but they seemed to have enjoyed the squashing. They were laughing together.

The neighbor mom asked me if I was planning to attend the craft event at school. I didn’t know about that. Later I found out the teacher of my daughter’s class forgot to inform us about that. Anyway, we decided to attend the event together.

The event was to make an ornament for the Christmas tree. It was fun. I had a great time spending lots of time with the neighbor mom, so did our kids. If you are curious, our ornaments are these.

Our being late for the bus this morning brought us a nice surprise. All in all, it was a happy accident for us.  

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My daughter’s school had the annual Christmas concert this afternoon. Every year I look forward to this concert. I enjoy the kids’ songs and dances there.

In previous years, I could not hold my tears back because the kids’ voices were beautiful and holy. I felt embarrassed about my shedding tears among the huge audience.

So, this year I decided not to cry. Before I left my house, I told myself in the mirror out loud, not to cry.

When I arrived at the school gym, there were already a huge audience of the parents and relatives.

The audience welcomed our kids by clapping hands, whistling through their fingers, and cheering them up. Their vibration was just so beautiful that I already felt my tears were about to come out. It was even before the kids started singing.

As usual, the music concert was great. I had to pinch my thigh very hard to prevent my tears from dropping down.

I wonder if my mom had the same feeling as I do, whenever she attended my music concert at school. Most likely she did.

In the process of raising children, parents are blessed at every moment. We should cherish and enjoy the precious moment.

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