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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Recently we have spent our weekends and evening time on cleaning up / organizing the things in our garage. Our garage is wide enough to store two cars. Since we have so many staff stored in the garage, we can store only one car at this moment.

We still have lots of things left to clean up in order to store two cars in the garage. We are getting there. Eventually, and hopefully someday soon the day will come.

On next weakened, we are planning to remake our crib to an art craft desk. We bought a brand new crib for my daughter, but she seldom used it. We tried to sell it to somebody who needs it. We even tried to give it away, but we could not find anybody who wanted it. All the materials are still in good shape. Instead of trashing it, we decided to remake it to something useful. I hope we will be able to finely remake it to a desk.

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This year of 2018 is my 10th year living in America. I need to renew my driver’s license and passport.

Renewing driver’s license is not difficult.

Renewing passport, on the other hand, will be troublesome. I will have to go either Los Angeles CA or Tempe AZ. Going to Los Angeles is not my option. It will cost too much for an airplane tickets for three of us as a starter. For another option going to Tempe is not that easy for me neither. I will need to go there twice in a separate day. Just thinking about driving around Phoenix area gives me headache. Or, the last option is going back to Japan and apply there.

Then, two years from now, my green card will need to be renewed. At that moment, I will need to choose only one option on either renewing the green card or applying to be American citizen.

Nowadays for several days straight, while I am taking a walk, I have been thinking about it. Sometimes renewing the green card comes strong while other times applying to be American citizen comes strong.

To choose the nationality is a huge decision for me. I want to take my time to choose the right answer for me.

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Today I attended the science club activity with my daughter. The instructor taught about the fluorescence with using potato starch. Every time they showed something different. I am sure all of the participants are enjoying every class. I am happy for my daughter to have such a great learning opportunity.  

At the ending of the club activity, they did a small game. While everybody closed their eyes, the instructor put a different colored sticker on their forehead. Then they opened their eyes. They were not allowed to talk, but had to communicate somehow to gather the groups by the same colored sticker. One older boy nicely took a lead. He used his gesture pointing one child and the other child who had the same color sticker and made the first group. Other children quickly understood him and followed his lead. Within a minute or so, all the children were nicely gathered by three groups based on the sticker color.

Now, I felt embarrassed to say this. I shed tears by watching this. It was so beautiful for everybody worked together. I was touched.

Deep inside, this is what I really want to see in the daily life. It will be wonderful to see people here and there to work together or support one another.    

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