Today we devoted on remaking the baby crib. As I mentioned in my previous article, our crib was in a pretty good shape, because my daughter seldom used it. It was made from nice light brown colored wood materials.

It was an easy process. We simply reassemble it, except for the front part. And we added several L-shaped brackets under the desk board to secure. 

On next weekend, we will go to stores to buy a wooden board to put on the desk surface.

My daughter is happy for her new work desk.

And, my husband and I are happy for having more open space in the garage.

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This weekend we decided to devote on remaking our old items into something useful, so that we can keep them. Also, that will enable us to create more open space in the garage.

Today’s project was to create a laundry hanger station.

I like to hang wet clothes after washing, instead of using the drier. I used to hang clothes under our gazebo. It worked perfectly except for some not-preferable factors. When it gets windy, the clothes will be easily blown off. And the gazebo area can be seen from 360 degrees. I wanted to hang them at our private patio area, which is located right next to the door. It would be easier for me to reach rather than going to the gazebo area, which is located in the far side of our back yard.  

We gathered up and had a meeting first. Through our brain storming, we agreed on one idea.

First, we dusted off and wiped off the water pipes that stayed in our garage for the whole one year.

Then, we went to a couple of stores to buy the water pipe joints and glues.

Lastly, we finally assembled the pipes and joints.

We did the same for other baby items such as a stroller and a high chair. We remodeled them into a unique shaped hanging station so that we can hang our pillows and cushions.

It was fun on recycling and remodeling old and unused items into something useful. I look forward my laundry tomorrow to use our brand new laundry hanger station.

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I received an email from the exercise class instructor. For the past three years, I had attended at her class regularly, but I stopped attending it anymore for a certain reason.

To be honest, I was offended by her email. Her true intention was clear. She is a nice person. She didn’t send me this email in order to offend me. I know that. But still, I didn’t like what she wrote.

I had gone to some events and fun activities with her. I considered her as my friend. So, as a friend, I talked about my private in information with ease. Since they were my private information, I naturally thought she would keep them only to herself. But it turned out she didn’t do so. She shared my personal information with everybody in her class.

How did I know about that? The answer was simple. When I went to her class, some people asked me about the update of my private issue. I didn’t like what she did. And it was the main reason why I stopped attending her class anymore.

What she did was gossiping about me. I never permitted her to share my private information to anybody else. I didn’t tell her not to tell anybody, but I thought it as minimal courtesy. I naturally trusted her to have the same moral as I do.  

Today’s her email clearly showed that she gossiped about me again to everybody in her class.

I was filled with anger toward her. I almost picked up my cell phone and called her to complain about it.

But, I didn’t do so.

Instead, I took several deep breathes. Then I meditated about it. I wanted to see this event from a different perspective.

After a couple of minutes’ meditation, I was back to my peace. What I got from my meditation was like this.

First, I got to know about her. She didn’t do this with any evil intention. She does not think sharing my personal information to everybody is gossiping. Then, when I went deeper in her soul level, I saw her true nature. She is very interested in humans. She wants to know about every individual. She considers all her students as her extended family. That is why she thinks it okay to share everybody’s personal information, just like what we do to our family members. And, she never thinks that I was offended by her actions.

Secondly, I got to know about myself. I don’t like to share my personal information to everybody.

Finally I got to know the important tip. Now that I know her personality and her action tendency, I can do better from next time. I should not tell her any of my personal information.

Everything is a learning opportunity. Instead of getting caught up emotionally to a certain event, I can calm myself and ask my inner peace what I can learn from the event.

It is always a good idea to get back to your inner peace. From the vintage point, you can see some new findings through a certain event. For me, now my anger to the instructor completely melted down. Instead, I appreciate her to have guided me to a new finding through her email.

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It was windy outside. I wanted to do something creative at home, rather than going somewhere. I went to the garage and found the paint leftover.

I know my daughter is good at painting. I asked her if she wanted to repaint her coffee table. She was willing to do so.

I moved my car from the garage and lied a couple of unfolded card board boxes on the floor and set the paint and the paint brush. Then I took our old coffee table out to the garage.

While I was organizing the stuff in the garage, my daughter repainted the coffee table all by herself. 

She had a great fun doing so. I secretly enjoyed listening her humming her made up songs during her work.

After she was done repainting, she had the paint all over; starting from her fingers, arms, clothes, to hair.

She did a pretty good job. Our coffee table is now reborn, looking like brand new.

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When my daughter was riding at the swing at the local park, she found a rainbow around the sun. It was a halo around the sun. I never saw this before. It was beautiful and gorgeous.

My daughter told me she sees this very often during the recess at school. I guess I should enjoy the beauty of sky more often than now.  

When we took a picture with my cell phone, it showed a blue round light ball and a purple round light ball along with the feather-like thin layered clouds. It looks like an angel figure with two spirits figures playing around the sun. It looks fun to me.

It says when you see a halo around the sun, it will soon rain. We didn’t have any rain in the evening though.

As common in spring, we have been experiencing ups and downs in temperature. Before the spring vacation started, for about the two weeks, we had had hot days. I switched our heater to cooler. I even switched our bedding from thick and warm ones for winter to thin and cool ones for summer. Now in this week, we have been having very cold days. I needed to bring the winter bedding from our closet back.

Hopefully this ups and downs will calm down soon, because the spring day is coming in another six more days.

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I have been trying to give away my old bicycle. We have showed it on our front yard with the sign “Give away item: Free of charge” for several days, but nobody has taken it. So we decided to trash it. We put it inside the huge trash can and took the trash can out to the street. I’ve seen many people trashed big things such as a BBQ grill or a furniture by putting in the trash can, so I thought it would be okay.

When the trash truck came by to our street, the driver came down from the truck and took the bicycle out from the trash can. He took it with his both hands, raised it up in the higher air higher than his head, and slammed it roughly onto the ground of our front yard. Then he took off.

I was watching everything from the kitchen window. I have gotten to know the track driver for these years. I always waive at him, and he waives back at me. We exchange our smile every time we see each other. So, his action of slamming the bicycle on the ground seemed to be rude to me. I was offended by his action.

My daughter was with me, but she didn’t look at what the trash truck driver did.

I mentioned to her about what I saw. I told her I was offended by his action. She stayed calm and listened to me carefully. Then she told me “Stop reacting. It is nothing.” Then, she said to me like this.

It was just an event. The truck driver might be in a bad mood for his personal reasons, or he might get offended by seeing the bicycle in the trash can. We don’t know about the exact reason, and we don’t need to know. In any reason, the truth is he didn’t want to take it to his trash truck. That’s it.

My daughter is always my spiritual guru. She opened my eyes. Yes, she was right. It was just an event. If I keep on reacting it, I will keep using my energy and eventually I will feel drained. However, if I decide to stop reacting to it, I will be able to use my precious energy to something fun. All in all, this is my daughter’s spring break. We had better to have fun spending our precious time together.   

I did so. I decided to stop reacting to it and moved to something fun with my daughter. Now I feel comfortable. I am back to my inner peace.

I wanted to share my personal experience. I hope my sharing will inspire you and make your day.

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From today, my daughter will have one week spring vacation from school. She was excited about this whole week. Right after she woke up in the morning, she made a to-do-list of this week. It was full of fun activities with me, such as “one hour oil massage,” “play hair salon,” “water painting”, and “acrylic painting.” The list started from today’s lunch. She wanted to eat Japanese instant cup noodle.

Unfortunately, her fun spring vacation started from the pain. Right after she ate the noodle, she started suffering from tummy ache. She started shedding lots of tears from the pain.

I gave her homeopathy remedy, reiki healing treatment, ginger and honey, and rubbing strokes around the tummy area. Still, she had the pain.

I started thinking about taking her to ER. I called my husband and discussed about the ER. He reminded me about my own experience of going to ER. Even if we took her to ER, we would need to wait for a couple of hours before seeing the doctor. Then, the doctor would tell us to give her lots of fluid such as ginger ale and let her stay close to the bathroom. That happened to me once. I went to the ER from food poisoning. I was told to stay close to the bathroom and drink ginger ale. He charged me about $300 for the one minute conversation. He didn’t even prescribe me any medicine.

So, both of my husband and I agreed not to take her to ER. Instead, we both started praying to her angels to get rid of the pain.

Within one minute, she stopped crying. She told me her pain completely disappeared.

It is a true story. I am always astonished on how well my daughter is protected by her angels. Maybe because she is very nice to everybody. All her angels love her so much.  

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This morning at 2 am, summer time started. Arizona does not have Daylight Saving Time. So, we don’t need to think about the time different. In Arizona, only Navajoland uses Daylight Saving Time. It is complicated for us to contact to my in-laws during summer time. They are one hour ahead of us.

Here in this land, it feels like already summer. Both in the night and the daytime, it is hot.

When we took a walk, my daughter noticed one of our neighbors had a cherry tree. Cherry blossoms were in full bloom. They were beautiful.

That reminded me of my last resident in Japan. My house was located at the mountain area and there were many cherry trees along the road. I used to love walking under the pink carpets in this season.

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It is getting extremely hot in this area. Two days ago, I asked my realtor to arrange the maintenance person to switch from heater to cooler. This is our fifth year to live in this house. From my past experience, the maintenance company will not call me another five days later or so. Then, the maintenance company will make an appointment with me two weeks from that phone day. They always say they are all booked for the following two weeks.

I didn’t want to wait for that long. I prayed to my family spirits and angels to arrange the maintenance person as soon as possible.

Right after we ate breakfast, somebody rang the doorbell. I usually ignore any unexpected visitors who are any kinds of solicited people. I took a peek from the kitchen window to find out who it was. It was the familiar face smiling to me. He was the maintenance guy who came here a couple of times.

He said he usually does not work on weekends, but today he felt the emergency calling to come to my house to switch to cooler.

It was amazing how quickly my family spirits have answered my request.

Now we are ready to have extremely hot days with our cooler ready.

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Today is my birthday. It is sunny and bright day. Not too cold, not too hot; just right temperature.

My Japanese parents and in-laws already sent me some gifts in advance. They all told me to treat myself with something I love. So, I bought a flower bouquet, a strawberry cake, and a party sushi plate for myself. It was a great treat to myself.

I almost forgot on how powerfully a flower bouquet can raise the vibration around them. I should have bought it more often.

I celebrated my birthday with my family. It was quiet and peaceful day.

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