APhoebe's Journal, 17 Apr 24

That is pretty 

Thanks for posting! Just so beautiful 🩷 

Lovely photo! 

Woke up (4:45) to an overcast sky and a day full of unavoidable stressors. 6 1/2 hours since I saw this and feelin' 🧘‍♀️🏋️‍♀️ Phoebe Thank You 🤗  

Gorgeous 

Wow 😲 how pretty! I've always really enjoyed sunrise and sunset I have a harder time seeing them in real life these days now that I'm blinded the one eye. for some reason now that I'm blind and when I it makes me very light sensitive but if I wear my sunglasses I can still watch them. I'm not often able to watch sunrises because I'm at work but I sometimes catch sunsets as long as I'm not busy doing chores but I've been trying to take the children out and make sure they have time when it's nice weather to play with chalk or bubbles and I'll sometimes stop washing dishes long enough to make sure to look around that way that I'm having good quality time with the children. I don't want them to remember mom is just the person that did dishes but also the person that took time to play with them. It's important for me to take time out of my day to spend on enriching activities and educational moments to bring joy to their day. I really do love those little rascals. They truly are the joy of my life. 

Sounds like you sure have kept your priorities in good order. Some of my clearest and best memories from when I lived up in the White Mountains of NH were those times I got up early to drive up to the pull-out on Mt. Prospect to watch the sun come up in winter. It was always so worth the effort to see pink, blue, lavender, and gold wash the snow-covered tops of the mountains to the SE. In the evening, a little trip to the fairgrounds just north of Lancaster gave a vivid clear view of the same pallet. Many years before that collected memories of looking for pretty stones in a very long dirt driveway with my toddler son, hunting morels in the woods, taking rides along old dirt roads to pick wild flowers...to this day, the kids (59,55, and 52 y/o) talk about these days. Little things shared can be Big Things later. 

Hope so you always bothers me I can't send the kids to camp every summer every summer I look at the programs they sent home from school at summer camps and they always look so cool! But each one of those camps or day camps first of all which I have trouble getting to the kids to anyways cuz the transportation issues second of all they're all so very expensive for only four or five days typically like $600 some of them are up to $1,500 at the nice science camps that I'd like to send the kids too; that's as much as a college course! I was invited to send Ayla to the sheriff Summer outreach camp, but she had aged out of the program and Thorin isn't old enough so we will have to wait a couple years before he can go and she of course like I said is now too old. I just worry that they are getting neglected because I can't pay for them to participate like some of these other children with the really cool things that they get to do. At least I got to take them to the aquarium I was so happy with that. I know it may not have been the most mature choice what to use the tax money on I normally just pay for the bills as much as possible but it made me so happy to take them somewhere. 

Beautiful 

Lea_guffey— don’t forget your local YMCA, parks and recreation and different church organizations. A number of years ago I mentored a mom and 8 year old daughter on their weight loss journey. In the summer mom went back to school so I found a couple of day camps that had reasonable fees. I sent the little girl to space camp, a nutrition and cooking camp and the next year science camp and running camp. When she was 10 she went to a health and general medicine camp. These were all through the YMCA and through our college district. At the time the prices were pretty reasonable and the classes were awesome. That fat little girl is now a marathon runner and starts college in September on a sports scholarship. She is going into premed. The mom who used to work as a secretary when I met her, lost 175 pounds, got married to a fabulous guy, went back to school twice and is now an Associate Functional Medicine Practitioner and makes over $100:000.00 a year.. don’t give up on trying to find a camp. I hope the area you live in has some of these resources. 

Marry me 😁 

I'll check it out it won't hurt to look maybe 🤔 if nothing else I can find a connection to a camp or activities that would be 😊. I still do enrichment activities off the Internet and little things at the local library as there free but it would be awesome for something more fancy ✨ for the littles this year.