waves of affirmations.....

As we enter the new year a few thoughts, a few yearnings have been rolling to the forefront of my mind from the back of back cupboard that they have been relegated to.
I've wanted, no, make that needed, to find more time to spend in Sacred Space. First, though, I need to find my new Sacred Space.
I love My Honey with all my heart, but all that man energy, all those football/basketball/baseball games blaring in the background makes it extremely hard to get into sacred mind space. We did re-do my sunroom and all my "stuff" is out there, however, at the present it is 18 degrees outside and my beautiful little room has no insulation, so as you can imagine it a tad cold out there. Right now it is my giant 9 x12 freezer, VERY convenient over the holidays, every appetizer, every giant turkey or ham, any left over goes very nicely out there, have to say I LOVE that about my sunroom.....but I digress.....

My second wish on my personal growth list is to also get re-involved in the wonderful Goddess Temple that is near me. I really believe in the vision that the wonderful people who have created have for it and I have felt, for quite some time, that I am meant to be a teacher, a mentor, a keeper of the truths and to make sure that those truths and traditions get passed on to the next generation. Which brings me to my third wave in my wish list....as these thoughts have been rolling around my mind, louder and more persistent with each passing day I came across a blog entry on Friday that presented the very questions I have been pondering out to her readers. "where are our Elders?" the blogger askes her readers, the gist of her piece is that she fears the elderly pagan community has become too arrogant, too full of their own importance to see that there are future generations waiting for compassionate, loving, patient teachers to lead them. As I read her words I knew that this was to be my role, that this is the mantel I need to accept.

As I let these thoughts process, I went about my day. I got to work and opened my email there only to find two emails, one from DailyOm, titled The Fullfilling Road: Finding your next step in life....,
then my horoscope from the same site was thus: SEARCHING BEYOND YOUR NICHE, then I saw that my friends at the Goddess Temple were have a magickal workings day at the Goddess Blessed store, a day to come and use the store as sacred space and do whatever magickal workings you'd like.

Wave after wave of affirmations......

I will do my best to honor them.

Blessed Be.

Snowy Saturday........

If any of you saw the news today, you saw our poor little corner of the world get pounded by a snow storm....they have been crying "dire" since yesterday morning, predicting a total of approximately 20 inches by this evening.....so we hardy Northeastern Ohioians do what we do best, hurry to the grocery store, stock up, make soup, wear our warmest fleece jammies and snuggle in for the weekend. This is a picture of our backyard in it's snowy beauty....It was a lovely, cuddly, quiet day spent with my Lovely's. The TallOne had to work, but now he's home, warm and toasty and safe. We're watching "Pride and Prejudice" (love that movie)...much to My Honey's dismay, but as I reminded him, he gets to watch football all the time, every Sunday....today is girly-movie day!....he just smiles at me when I tell him that.....
Here's hoping that all of you had a safe, warm, snuggly day........warmest wishes, SunshineGirl

Snuggling in.......

We woke up today to the news of 3-5" of snow today then 8-12" more by 6pm tomorrow night! Welcome to Northeast Ohio!.....going to stock up tonight on the way home from work and just snuggle in for the weekend with my family. I'm seeing this as a great excuse to slow down, rest, reconnect after all the holiday festivities. going to do some baking, some cooking, some playing and a whole lot of relaxing.......

Wishing you and yours a safe, warm, stress-free weekend.

Just call me Oma........

Wow, it has been a long time since I have posted! The holidays were wonderful yet crazy! I promise to try harder to post on a more regular basis. I hope everyone's holidays were wonderful and filled with lots of blessings.
My Honey and I and all our collective children (7, all together) and our families had a lovely time over the holidays. We were extra blessed this past weekend to find out that we are going to be grandparents, again!...The first time for me!!!! Yeah!......our first grandbaby is Anthony, My Honey's oldest dtr's son, now my oldest daughter is pregnan! I am so happy for her and her man! I wish only happiness, health and a FUN pregnancy for her.
I've decided to accept the grandmotherly title of "Oma" (german for "grandma") for myself. My own Oma is deceased and my mother is Omi (german version of "granny" or "nana") so I'm going to carry on the tradition of my family and take Oma as my grandma name.........it is a tribute to my own Oma.....
You will notice the babyticker I placed on the left, now we can all watch my grandbaby as he grows (yes, I said "he", that's what my Oma-witchy-sense is telling me), that's my story and I'm sticking to it, until the baby is born and proves otherwise....lol.
Thank you Kelli Lincoln for posting this babyticker on your own blog, I loved it when I first saw your baby and now I have passed this on to Vanessa and she is so excited!

May everyone's day be filled with laughter and love!

Magickal Places....and.....Fireplaces.......

This is Windsor Mills Bridge in Windsor, Ohio.
A very magickal place! My Honey took me on a lovely Sunday drive and we made our annual prilgrimage to one of my most favorite, sacred places.....We discovered this bridge two years ago on the Ashtabula County Covered Bridge Festival, (highly recommended, if you live in Northeast Ohio)....as soon as I saw it, it took my breath away, we then walked down the same path where this picture was taken, we followed the path and found a spot along the river that just sang with magickal, fairy energy.....I didn't want to leave, I just wanted to sit there and absorb it!
Going back today was such a treat, and the energy is still the same. We found a fire ring in that magickal spot which just solidified my feeling that there be fellow witches in that area. I thought I felt it the first time I was there and it was there again when we visited it today......so fellow witches of Windsor: Hail and Welcome Fellow Sisters!..and even though I didn't meet anyone, I felt your presence and I thank you for sharing your magickal spot with me.....
After soaking up the energy of this place, My Honey and I continued on into the back roads of Northeastern Ohio and had quite an adventure, we saw amazing vistas, old farmsteads that were breathtaking in their simplicity, found about 100 different houses that we would like to live in and of course, the trees in all their splendor.......after about 4 hours we headed for home and........

then My Honey lit a fire in our fireplace.

We sipped coffee with Cinnamon Bun Creamer and just drifted into the afternoon.......


Hope your Sunday was as blissful!

Blustery days......

Ah, the blustery days of autumn, cold, windy, damp, mercurial......a very apt description of my life right now.
Changes in my landscape, changes in my lifescape. This morning on my one of my favorite blogs, www.gaiantarot.com, Joanna posted her newly finished Ten of Wands card, renamed the Ten of Fire, an eerie, amazing depiction of a blazing forest fire. As soon as saw it I knew that it was a message from the Goddess in regards to my life. She wanted me to know that all that is happening in my life is purposeful, that She is using the circumstances of my life to burn away the chafe, so that new, lovely, wonderful things can grow and thrive. That I shouldn't despair at the winds of change that are buffeting me right now, they are blowing away the dust on my life and bringing new seeds, fresh air, clean space, necessary for fruitful new beginnings.
As the comforting realization came over me I smiled and began to relax into the "wind" that is swirling through my life. I'm going to relax and enjoy the ride, enjoy the view....I can't wait to see what is revealed! Hmmmm, maybe this is where the "myth" of flying witches came from, I'm on my "broomstick" of Faith and riding the winds of change.......grab your "broomstick' and join me!

Once Upon A Time,Three Years Ago..........

Once upon a time, three years ago, at 9:15am I met my destiny. A first date/first meeting for breakfast, a breakfast that I didn't taste; I was too busy smiling and trying to process the funny feeling I was feeling in my "gut." After breakfast we decided to continue this first date and go for a drive in the country. First stop was Squire's Castle (pictured left). He asked if we could get out and walk up to the castle, I said yes. As we went up the walkway he took my hand (for the first time) and muttered "this will do..." I looked at him quizzically. He just smiled. We walked around the castle and entered the room on the right (the round room). He looked around the room, looked at me, took my hand, pulled me into his arms and declared "I can't think of a better place to have our first kiss!" (From that moment he had me, any man who "got" me enough to know that a kiss in a castle would be just the way to snag my attention was worth checking out!) The kiss was everything every sappy romance novel could conjur up and much, much more. He literally curled my toes, and from his response I curled his.....three years later and we haven't stopped kissing! ;)

My Honey and I are absolute, living proof that fairy tales do come true, there can be happy day after days. I won't say happy endings because I don't EVER want this to end.......

Happy THREE years Honey.!!!

Thank you so much for coming into my life and making this Fairy Tale come true........

We are a testament to all of those who said that fairy tales are just silly little stories for little children.....we showed them, didn't we Honey!