These two.......when they aren't trying to kill each other they do have some fun times....
Here they are sitting in baby pools just floating around and talking to each other. Then they both started to get water in their boats so they were scooping it out like crazy and then they both sunk. It was actually hysterical to watch.
The neighbors cat still loves us.... (Brody photo bombed the picture!)
Look! He has his paw around Kate. Seriously....Kate is his favorite person in the house. He waits for her to go to bed so he can be with her.
I signed myself up for the thing called "Soul School" by Brave Girls. I highly recommend it. It is that art therapy stuff I was telling you about. Maybe the word therapy turns some of you off. That is just what I call it because a lot of it coincides with the thinking Kristopher has taught me. But it has been so fun and I actually think it helped me reconcile some things.
One of the things Kristopher last taught me (again, because it takes time to change your thinking and I have to be reminded a lot...) is about "what iffing". What if bad versus what if good. Last week I went in and when I started to what if about something, he called me on it and said..."What if good?" Meaning what if that bad thing your iffing about doesn't even happen and the what if good thing does happen.... He is trying to remind me to think that way instead of the other way. Whenever he does that to me all I can do is shrug my shoulders because he is right. What iffing good instead of bad decreases depression and anxiety. Also some may believe that the world sends those better things your way if you are thinking about them instead of the bad things....
Another thing that happened this week that I find interesting is we were talking about a challenge I had. Something to me that hurts very much. He made me tell him something that was beneficial about that challenge. I thought of one. He said "and...." so I thought of another thing that was beneficial about facing this challenge...he said "and...." (yeah, he gets annoying, lol) so I was able to even come up with a THIRD thing that had been good about this challenge. He is always saying that the bad things or painful things or challenging things that happen to us are actually the best news of the day because of the things we learn. I actually saw this happen once when a woman just found out her partner was dying. He very sensitively had her list something that was good about it. And she was able to. And it was amazing. Really.
I can't even lecture on this because I hardy do it myself but if we could become master over our own thoughts it would be pretty beneficial and enlightening and powerful and we would be so much more productive and happy.
So today is finally the much anticipated Harry Potter marathon. We have only been planning it for three years is all. I kept never getting around to it! I will give you a sneak peak....
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