Mother Mary

Isn't this statue of Mother Mary beautiful! One day I will hopefully find one as nice as this for my garden. I do have one which I am grateful for but she doesn't have any color. :/ I need this for my meditation garden :} (The one I didn't make yet, lol).

Do you need some energy? I've been making a big pot of medium roast Maxwell house coffee lately and putting it in the fridge. When the time of the day I know I get pooped starts nearing( between 1-3pm), I make myself a couple of shots worth of iced coffee for a pick me up. You can also just reheat it if you prefer hot but the idea is not to have a big old cup full. This way you won't get all jittery or crash hard later. So far, so good.

Me and the kids kept busy last night messing around with some watercolors. My not so hot art is above, lol! Anna is the good one with watercolors. I find them difficult but fun for a change. :}

And now I bring you inspirational sayings....

Lovvve this one!!!!

and this one because well, it says it all to me. I am just done with beating myself up for not being perfect. Whenever I have done something or said something wrong, I would torture myself for days, weeks, months, even years! It's finally getting through to my brain and heart that no one is perfect and never will be. We ALL do and say stupid stuff sometimes because we are HUMAN! We should just own up to our wrong doings, say we are sorry if it is appropriate and then forgive ourselves. DONE! Love yourself and those who love you for who you are, which is an imperfect being who is doing there best!!!!

And one more time I bring you...

Mother Mary, because she is Love, Forgiveness, Hugs and ALL Awesomeness ;]!

Have a good one ;]!

PS If you get my blog post in an email but like reading it on the actual blog page, then just click on "Waking up with the deans" and it will bring you to my actual blog ;]

Yard work

These pics show the part of the yard at the end of our driveway. The fence here (and all our fencing) is crumbling away. Cliff and I changed out a couple pieces of the fence but have tons more to go when funds allow.

See those branches against the fence? Well after ripping down tons of wild grape vines, I think what I am left with, is Wisteria vines. I am not positive but I think the grapes choked them out in this area and it never bloomed. I hope I'm right because we had to destroy the small bit of Wisteria I had when we changed out the fence.

Just a closer look. Notice how barren this area is now and you just wait and see how crazy it gets by early summer. ;] Cliff and I have made a good dent in some much-needed yard work these last couple of weekends (especially cliff). Maybe this summer things will stay under control...????? LOL!

Saturday

Dave and Maria took the kids out last night so Cliff and I cooked up some steaks and Stouffers mac and cheese for ourselves. We love this mac and cheese!

Then we moved on to a healthy dessert (no, not the bananas, lol but the doc said bananas have serotonin in them and they are good to uplift your mood (bill and I eat them often now, and they are good to lower blood pressure :}. Try a small one in the morning and one in the evening)

Relaxed by the fire after that and stared at my new Tulips for a while in aw. For 5 bucks at the supermarket, go get some spring!

Pretty :}!

This is not my yard unfortunately but I am hoping to do something like this in the spring. A private, calming area in the yard to relax and maybe do a meditation or two.

Anyone else planning anything for the spring already?

Are you girl getting my blog, lol? Throw me a line if you are getting it okay. Thanks,;]!

Love is in the air

I just wrote this whole post on an old blog I don't use anymore by accident, lol, ughhh!

Anywhoooo, I started decorating for Valentine's day. Its early I know but I need the color! I don't know how Ludwig doesn't roll off the top of the couch? He is always a freaky tilt, lol.

Got this sign for a buck at the Dollar Tree. Not bad and great saying!

My fav decoration is my paper cupid writing love letters. I printed it out from victorian images many moons ago. Speaking of moons, did you all see the full moon on the 21st I think it was? So pretty :]! Now that we are getting into the new moon phase, it's a great time to start new projects and get working on them, soooo, get moving on something fun! Lets all try, try, try to keep our thoughts positive. My happy place today was working on the valentines decor :}.

The above is in case you can't shake an ick negative feeling. Sometimes we "KNOW" why we feel the way we do, but when we don't, the above can help rid you and your home of any crap energy that is lingering around.

I'm working on it

Cliff and I have been trying to do this the last couple of weeks. Life, work and the kids can take over real quick if you're not careful. Last night we dropped the kids off to a meditation, reiki session and then Cliff and I went to Friendly's for dinner, CVS to putzs around and buy a couple of little things and then got a coffee at Dunkin Donuts. We sat outside the Reiki center and just talked about random stuff (In peace! No animals, kids, phones etc). Loved it!!! (even though Friendly's claw machine was broken, grrr, LOL!)

Usually, we feel guilty about doing things without the kids but we are trying to stop that! We ALL need alone time with ourselves or with special people in our lives!

Grab a pen and paper and write down something every evening before bed that will make you excited for the next day. It can be anything, like, a special meal or dessert, a walk around to just take in nature and breath, getting a manicure (they are cheap!), to work on a special project such as writing, crafting, drawing. Or watch a cool movie, buy a new book (no depressing books or movies!) walk around an indoor garden center, learn a new hobby, language, skill, etc etc. Also there are a lot of yoga centers that are doing meditations and reiki now, which I recommend! Sooo relaxing!!! Anywho, you got the idea ;]! It can be something as simple as buying a new coffee you can't wait to drink in the morning.

Start creating the life you can't wait to wake up too!!

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone! xoxoxo

This guy is great!

Billy Bean is a funny boy! (he just woke up and put my glasses on in this pic :/ ) He had us play this game tonight where you take turns, kind of doing a story build up. I WON and thus became our new Pope, lol!

I almost became the new Miss America but Billy beat me in the second game, grrr, lol!

All in all, a good day. I got to finally relax and just play around in my room, cleaning out my draws etc.(I like that) and we had pizza for dinner and went for ice cream for dessert. Then we played the game.

Hope you all had a nice day too :}!

Whats wrong with this picture?

Sometimes when you think your doing well and have it all under control, little things happen throughout the day that reminds you to slowwwww down and just breath! One of those things for me today was realizing I was wearing two different sized earrings, all day :/, eshhhhh, lol! Stopping to breath now. You take some deep breaths too ;]!

Yep! {again)

                              Oh soooo true!!! I did that today by focusing on others. I find that when my own life is uncontrollable (which is often), I can find peace in trying to do something to make someone I love smile. AND, very important here, so listen up, I always try and do something to make myself smile as well. Like today I did some kitchen duty for others and for myself, I changed around my living room (I love that) and took care of my face with a nice olive oil and sugar scrub (it tasted surprisingly good, lol). Now I sit here and write this, in a living room that brings me joy and with a face that is clean, soft and exfoliated 😁. It's the simple things~!

I do enjoy winter but... I NEED LIGHT!

I'm enjoying winter as usual But I don't get outside enough to get the light I literally NEED to function properly. That being said, this morning all the blinds went up and curtains are opened to max capacity!!! I can not tell you how much sunlight streaming in from my windows helps with my energy level. TRY IT!!

You can also purchase some new brighter lightbulbs. Sample a few because some of them give off an icky, blinding, grayish light, which I HATE!

Still working on packing up Christmas. Most of it has been gone for a while with a few lingering touches of greenery. That's going to go too and be replaced by some real greenery and color in the form of flowers and plants. :} That will also help keep my energy flowing ;].

Have a wonderful day girl's!! xoxoxo

YEP!

This is soooooo true!!! NOT always easy to do!!!! BUT we can do it with practice!!!!  I started to go downhill tonight with negative thoughts, so I went outside, looked at the beautiful moon and stars for a bit, went to get the mail (I forgot earlier) and there was The Vermont country store catalog in there. Went back inside and looked at the catalog and now I feel much better :}!!!!! Distraction from the negative shit is all it takes sometimes. Hope you all have sweet dreams ;] .

Gram Gallo's Apron

Gram Gallo's apron is freshly cleaned and patched up with a cloth heart I made and sewed on to cover the mystery hole, lol!

GOOD MORNING :} !

I love this prayer! 

It seems to cover all basis in a straight-up fashion, doesn't it :}.

So whatcha doing today? Me, I am currently washing all my white sheets. Most are from my Gram Gallo. They are beautiful because she did lacy edges on all of them, BY HAND!!! :O

I also just finished sewing a makeshift heart on an old apron of hers that somehow mysteriously got a large hole in it???? There are stains on it from when she owned it which leads me to believe, if Gram couldn't get the stains out then I won't be able to either. The woman was CLEAN!!! In all honesty, I love that those stains are from her working with her hands and digging into her busy day. Motivates my sometimes lazy, blah, butt :}.

I will hopefully have more posts for you today but if not, read the prayer above, kick yourself in the butt and get moving! Today can be a great day!!!

Testing testing 1 2 3

Just sending this post out to see if some of you get the blog directly to your email now that I put you in to follow ;]

Monday morning inspriation

😁

Sunday night at the Deans

My trusty cauldron is weighing down some eggplant to get the water out. I cut them a 1/4 inch thick, lightly salt them and do a single layer in between lots of paper towels. Left it for 3 hours. Tip- buy eggplant with a line on the bottom, not a circle. Fewer seeds ;]

Made a nice pot of sauce.

I use this brand now and run them through a mill. These tomatoes are by far the best I have used EVERR!!!

I bread and fry the eggplant and then try not to eat them all before I layer them in a baking dish :}.

The sauce on bottom of the baking dish and then, eggplant, sauce, parm, motz- three times. Forgot finished pic :[ but it was awesome!!!

Then a trip to Carvel and a movie night at home. How do kids go barefoot in the winter???

It was a good day with pop over for din din and lots of family time. Even Freddie got some extra love :}.