Late last night it started snowing. This morning we were greeted by pure white snow covered all our back yard. It was our first snow in this winter.

But the snow didn’t stay. By 7 am, the rising sun started warming up the area. The ice on the asphalted road was all melted. It looked like just like a normal day.

My husband went for work as normal. When he got to the workplace though, his coworkers told him that the entire workplace was shut down due to the snow. So he could not enter the workplace and had no option but coming back home.

Although the temperature stayed low, it was a nice sunny day in the daytime. Whenever I am home alone, I like to open up all the windows and enjoy the fresh air all around the house. Especially while I am cooking, I like to open at least the kitchen window to let the cooking steam flow out from the house.

Such my little fun time was not available today, while my husband was in the house. He kept the heater on all day and night and did not allow me to leave the windows open. While he complained the coldness, he was wearing only a T-shirt and a shorty cuts, without socks.

This is a weird habit to me, but it seems to be a normal habit for typical Americans. I’ve witnessed many American friends and acquaintances stay wearing light clothing inside the house with the heater on in the entire house. It tells me America is a real rich country.

I felt uncomfortable to stay inside the house with the heater on all day without any fresh air flow.

I secretly hoped for no more shut-down on weekdays.

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I spent all day with my daughter. Very peaceful day.

My daughter likes to play beauty salon with me. She wants to be a beauty stylist and I am a customer.

She creates her own coupon and gives it to me. She copies what I daily use. It is written a discount mark with a barcode and the expiration date.

She starts with a massage session. Her massage comes with a facial massage and a body massage, and ends with a foot massage.

She moves to the next stage, which is to put a makeup on my face. It is a fake make up. I am allergic to chemical makeup products and I cannot put any of them. So, she uses a variety of different size of makeup brushes, but the brushes are all clean without any real makeup. She also does a fake manicure treatment with using a tiny brush without a real manicure product.

Her beauty session ends with a hair styling. She starts with brushing my hair thoroughly, and applies some leave-in conditioner. And finally she arranges my hair.

She is gifted with healing touches. I always enjoy receiving her beauty session.

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Since last night we had lots of rain. The rain didn’t change into snow, but it made the outside temperature very low and cold.

I remember I read the weather report article. It predicted we would have lots of rain this winter. Their prediction was right.

The first thing I saw this morning was the text message from my mother-in-law. She attached some pictures of their home site. They had a pretty good amount of snow. I wish we were visiting them at this moment. We would have been enjoying the snow together.

They asked us a couple of times if we could visit them during the Christmas. We could have visited them, but we were kind of reluctant for the long drive.

This year we traveled a lot, and it accompanied with long drive. We decided to stay at our house during the Christmas and the new year.

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Today was the Federal holiday observed Christmas day.

This morning my family made our vision board for the upcoming new year. As usual, we prepared for the colored paper for the base and a bunch of magazines so that we can cut any pictures and texts of our choice.

For the year of 2019, I selected a yellow paper for the base. Yellow represents “prosperous.”

The texts I chose were:

– Going

– Awakening

– Make your dream a reality

– Year of achievement

– 2019 just got more happiness and sunshine!

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The pictures I chose were:

– The calm blue ocean surface

– A juicy orange

– A flower bouquet of red roses, pink gerbera daisies, a pink carnation, and a yellow sunflower

– A huge old tree getting sunlight

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2019 is the Pig year of the Chinese zodiac. The pig year is expected to bring good fortune. I hope next year will be prosperous for everybody.

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Today my husband went for work normally. All the federal workers have an extra holiday today this year.

I needed to make several phone calls to some offices. I was surprised nobody answered the phone, even though they are not federal organizations. Their automated answering machines said they were in the winter vacation and would open on January 2nd. It seems for many civilian companies and medical institutes to take a long winter vacation this year.

My daughter and I spend a peaceful day together at home, enjoying our art crafts.

In the evening we had some unique clouds. They looked like a whale.

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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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