Establishing a routine (for Mamas with littles at preschool)

Today is the day that both boys are in school for the first time. Below is my previous routine and its for you if you still have a little one at home or in preschool. On my main page under the drop down menu of About, you will fine my new routine be the end of the week.

MORNING

• WAKE GRATEFUL + SAY A PRAYER, PEE

• MAKE BED

• PUT KETTLE ON (FALL/WINTER/SPRING)

• SCRAPE TONGUE, BRUSH TEETH, MOUTHWASH/OIL PULL

• MORNING SKIN CARE ROUTINE

• POUR CUP OF WARM WATER + OIL

• INTUITIVELY CHOOSE OILS + START DIFFUSER

• SIT FOR MEDITATION

• DRINK 1ST LITRE OF WATER + PROBIOTIC

• BOYS AM: DRESS, BREAKFAST, BRUSH TEETH

• SCHOOL RUN + DOG RUN + 10 MIN CLEAN

MIDMORNING

• COFFEE WITH GRASS FED BUTTER/GHEE, MCT OIL, COLLAGEN + HERBS (MIX IT UP W/MATCHA, GOLDEN MILK, SHROOM COFFEE, CACAO)

• CREATE FIRST MINDSET

• JOURNAL

• ACTION ON TOP 3 (ONE ACTION IS IN SERVICE OF CURRENT SEASON GOALS)

• YOGA PRACTICE/MOVEMENT

• SMOOTHIE: BASE OF SPINACH + NUT MILK + SPIRULINA + COLLAGEN + OIL + SEEDS + HERBS + SUPPLEMENTS

• PICK UP O FROM PRESCHOOL + CONNECT

• LUNCH + DINNER PREP

• DRINK 2ND LITRE OF WATER

AFTERNOON

• MAKE LUNCHES/SNACKS/DINNER PREP

• PICK UP B

• DRINK 3RD LITRE OF WATER

• BOYS AFTER SCHOOL: SNACK + QUIET TIME + SCREEN TIME + STUDY TIME

• DINNER

• PLAY + FAMILY TIME

• 10 MIN WHOLE HOUSE CLEAN UP

NIGHT

• BOYS PM: JAMMIES + PICK OUT CLOTHES FOR TOMORROW + BRUSH/FLOSS TEETH + MOUTHWASH + BATH/WASH FACE + POTTY + CHOOSE OILS

• B’S THERAPY SESSION (MASSAGE/OILS PROTOCOL/STRETCHING/NIGHT SPLINTS)

• TURN DOWN + START DIFFUSER

• READ ALOUD

• OILS + CHECK IN + GOODNIGHT

• 10 MIN CATCH UP TIME + CHECK IN WITH N

• DIRECTION/DOTERRA TIME

• SCREEN TIME + LAUNDRY + PREP MORNING

• NIGHT TIME SKIN CARE/BATH + READ

• EYE MASK ON + SLEEP SUPPORT - GIVE THANKS + FALL ASLEEP FAST

Eight

We celebrated Brendan’s 8th birthday this week with going to see the Lion King and a sweet potluck picnic in “our” backyard. We have some pretty special friends here in Oshkosh and I’m filled with gratitude that B is surrounded with wonderful and dear humans that love him.

Adventure : Michigan + 3 Days on the Upper East side (of Michigan)

For the last few years, while the EAA is happening in Oshkosh, we rent our house and leave town. This year, we headed North and East to Michigan. Stopping first to experience the lake front cottage of friends on Lake Huron, then camping Up North near Painted Rocks National Park, then to Green Bay for a wedding Nate officiated. When ever I can get time outdoors, immersed in Nature - in the water, in the forest, I am restored. Close family time, where we can align our rhythms, play, and move about freely within a gentle structure created by the sun, moon and our bellies is precious to me. Reading, exploring and getting '“bored” enlivens a sense of intention and gratitude.

Day 1: Mackinaw Bridge and Mackinaw City - Tawas City
That bridge: a have a fear of bridges, or rather a fear of falling off them while driving on them, its a legit fear that I have to conquer each time that all began when I crossed this bridge in 2005 (which had a 4% safety rating - 4%!!!! and closed shortly after I crossed it).
Biere de Mackinak: dude, delcicious
Otto Cottage on Lake Huron
Tawas City Pizza Co.: wood-fired and so good. I have yet to find a decent pizza in the state of Wisconsin and will gladly go all the way back to Michigan for this.
Tony’s Taco’s Food Stand on the Lake in a park - had to ask for everything - napkins, forks, hot sauce, etc. + they got our order wrong, but the spot was perfect and the boys could play at the park while we finished eating.
Marion’s Dairy Bar: classic, been around since 1945

Day 2: Hiawatha National Forest
Collwell Lake Campground
Pictured Rocks Hike (+ accessibility test) to Chapel Rock: we made it half way and would have continued if not for the dog back at the car. We had to do a few carries, but for the most part it was a smooth path for Bs chair. I think, maybe a powerchair could have handled it?? (This is at tough loss for us as a family, not being able to hike freely, but the forest bath was the best).
Fall Rock Cafe Bookstore + more Ice Cream

Day 3 Pictured Rocks National Park
Pictured Rocks Cruises Boat Tour: totally worth it, and made up for the hike
Pasties: I don’t like these at all, just the name grosses me out, but they are a loved and adored U.P. delicacy .. if you want to (or have to eat one) this place was good + they had ice cream - Miner’s Pasties & Ice Cream

June New Moon

Image: Pixie Lightshorse’s e-newletter

July 2 2019 2:16PM CENTRAL : CANCER

Enjoy these potent words and musing from Pixie Lighthorse. I may share in an upcoming post.

You can download this and other worksheets via this link + download this worksheet for your own contemplations.

THE POWER OF TRANSITIONS

This work takes place at the heart level, and Snake medicine is centered at the base of the spine/sacral chakra. When we transmit intelligence, we think of what happens at the level of the mind. This is good and right, and yet, when we bring our wisdoms into the heart, we open up a whole new realm of possibilities. Try to “listen” with your heart, as well as your mind. Your mind will break it down, and help you make sense, but shifts in the heart will transmute old patterning and affect real change going forward. Injuries, cultural, and personal, root in the heart’s memory, and so it is at this level that we must do the healing once we have dialoged with the serpentine vibrations at lower levels.

Can you recreate the devotion to yourself, which you are learning to do in the dark?
What are the differences? More/less distractions?
What tricks do you play on yourself, if any, during the day? During the night?
What coping mechanisms are you still relying on?
If you are one who seeks to “take the edge off” of transitions, how is that evolving/not evolving?
What are the benefits of taking silent time for you?
What are you learning about yourself within this transition?
How are you beginning to see and understand yourself?
What within you is craving healing? What is craving to be released?
What surprising elements are you shedding?
Who are you within life transitions?
Who are you when you are at your spiritual best?
How can you remain in good relationship with the sacred masculine, while reclaiming what has been lost of the sacred feminine?
What have you already done to return to a state of homeostasis in yourself and your family?
What would you like to do to continue on your path of self-healing, of honoring your innate gifts?
Are your formerly resented scars from a surgery, childbirth, or a C-section emphasized with makeup, henna, or tattoos?
Do you have a symbolic piece of jewelry or clothing you can put on to represent what has been received in this transformation?
What inspires you most about your process?
What are you most enjoying? Finding challenging?

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+ my personal notes from mysticmamma.com and spiritdaughter.com - ideas, phrases that resonate and stand out for me with this New Moon Shift. Please see sites for full posts.

+ See some of my practices to create space for reflection, contemplation, rest, recovery here.

PERSONAL SNAPSHOT

Yesterday was a tough day, two little boys, lots of creative chaos, mess. Anger, aka The Red Dragon got a hold of my sweet patient but undernourished and tired mama heart and escalated from there. For me, its like the gas got turned on and then there was a spark and boom. We all have our triggers and we all react to these triggers in different ways. I, being an enneagram Type 1 - Perfectionist am prone to anger. Anger, like most of my emotions are powerful and when I’m anything other than balanced, I am vulnerable to lack of restraint. For the positive emotions, this is a beautiful thing, but for the negative emotions - let me say that they provide me with myriad opportunity for evolution. So for the last two days, tears of powerlessness and hopelessness have flowed, my stomach hurts, I sprained my wrist last week trying to push B’s chair up a big grass hill after I fell down the stairs at home, and I am gaining weight beyond what it comfortable. Why am i sharing all of these, well, this is my blog - I may share what ever I wish. And with these physical discomforts I have also received old memories and dreams of past mistakes - it seems that I will be undertaking the work of forgiveness during this moon cycle shift.

NOTES

• The Great Mother, Mother Elder Wise One - nurturing the child within

• sensitivities are opened

• tender

• Mercury Retrograde: July 7-31 - be mindful of how you self-express + rise in maturity, think twice about how you express yourself - speaking words in haste or anger are best left unsaid right now. Consequences of unguarded expression will be significant. Balanced communications vital - what may seem obvious to us may be inaccessible to others.

• play + yield to Lightness of Being

• take self less seriously

• Eclipse portals - a powerful time for transition + change

• What needs to be left behind?

• There is a fire present - yield it wisely!

• Speaking personal truth needs to be balanced with awareness of others

• It can be easy to default to patterns - this eclipse is a massive calling towards a new path

• sensitive, dynamic bringing emotional healing

• insight as to how to change internal dynamics

• “May bring the final healing needed to overcome a well-established pattern of emotional self-sabotage (amen!), but we must be prepared to do our part and acknowledge without candor, how we generate our own suffering - self-awareness is key and any feelings we choose to deny will continue to sabotage us.”

  As the cover of my dear friend and author Laura Devries upcoming book notes:

  You are stronger, braver and wiser than you think.

NEW MOON TIME

setting intentions
new beginnings
blank page/fresh start
planting seeds
unlimited possibility

June Full Moon

Image: moonandtrees on tumblr

JUNE 18 2019 6:02AM CENTRAL : SAGITTARIUS

My personal notes from mysticmamma.com and spiritdaughter.com - ideas, phrases that resonate and stand out for me with this Full Moon Shift. Please see sites for full posts.

See some of my practices to create space for reflection, contemplation, rest, recovery here.

Personal snapshot

My mind has calmed to a space of gentleness, receptivity and listening. Currently I am graced with a period of much less internal chatter and far less loud negative internal loop. Through therapy, deep work, grieving, reckoning, rest, recovery, consistency, reaching out, sharing, authenticity and the words of some illuminated women (and men …, but mostly women) this grace has been hard won and eagerly received. Grateful to all who’ve walk by my side (and have supported my family) these last two years.

Side Note: not soon after I wrote these words down, old patterns of irritation + anger arose. I think, as this is true for me, that I/we are always in process - changing shape with each cycle and given opportunity upon opportunity to forgive, start fresh, and grow.

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NOTES

• Solstice will magnify potency of this cycle

• time to expand + open mind to opportunities

• adaption

• ground dreams in truth

• distillation

• Higher Realms, Higher Wisdom, Higher Consciousness, Higher Self, Higher Understanding, Higher Heart, Higher Love

• Magic

• give time to tune into subtlety

• give time to be intimate with emotions - honoring vulnerability + neediness

• be aware of where and how you are checking out instead of checking in

• what in the past needs to be completed/released - the unresolved will arrise

• allow fire to burn away judgment + fuel a sense of adventure

• take action from a place of maturity - respond (not react)

• work to embody (where the soul resides) + watch for excess thinking

• meditate - pay attention to the inner realms

• presence

• there are cycles within cycles that cannot be rushed

• leverage, momentum

The humility. This is our humus you know, Earth. And to become truly human, we open to the Divine. And this of course leads me to the next point, which is that, in that opening, LOVE comes in. Thats is the wounding where (the) God enters.

We are used to being criticized, we are used to being judged. And to have our hearts broken open through Love, to become a part of everyone else, to open to that cherishing, simply demolishes power.” - Marion Woodman

The Full Moon, I think, is time for considering:
releasing and celebrating
harvesting endevors
introspection
peak energy
blessings
joy + gratitude
blossoming