Dealing With Our Hormones

I do visualize and create my life with no stress and peaceful living and I LIVE IT too! :)

I am truly LIVING my happy, simple life on a peaceful surrounding each day and MINDFULLY enjoy it everyday because... I believe it! I covet it! I value it! I cherish it! I protect it!

Okay, so my peaceful life is going perfectly as planned today.  Or is it?

Perhaps, the gently grey rain outside has gotten me to feel so sad today. :( Why? I don't know... 

Inside my cottage is filled with JOY of Christmas music, with our Christmas tree sparkled with delights and the warmth of the fireplace is flaming gently. I drink my green tea and looking out into this wet winter day. My surrounding is PEACE. A perfect setting, yet I feel very sad today.

Don't you hate the uncontrollable hormones attack at times?  I am directing this comment mostly toward the ladies in the 40's and up, going through with all the hormone changes, like myself. 

Others call it "midlife" crisis or menopause, or even depression. Whatever the label is unimportant to me. 

I, mindfully create peaceful boundaries for myself to have a sense of stability during this time of my life with all of my hormone changes. BUT I have NO CONTROL over my hormones as I am going through a medical term called "perimenopause phase of life". It's a fact of life.  I choose to do it naturally without any options and adviced with " prescribed medications" to dull or numb it. It is NOT an illness to cure but to experience the full course of a natural process of being a woman.

After better understanding that it is a natural process we, women must go through, then I am accepting it fully. It is not easy at times.  Each day is different as I maintain my sense of balance no matter what.

 I often think of it as just another human emotion we all must deal with. It's not a bad thing. It's part of life. I can't pretend to be happy and smiling all the time so I deal with it, head on, with my writing about it, today.

Life is a journey of going through the sad days with the joyful days to make it a full life with different seasons in our lives.

At the end of it all, we all must accept life and go with the energy flow as each day appears to us.

And so, I must remind myself and all of you to "BE" with each emotion with a grateful heart, one day at a time. I am grateful for all my emotions today, even the sadness.

With Love & Emotions,

Hai

Georgia's Pear Ambrosia Jam Day

Are you getting a repetitious, even a boring impression that I LOVE my home and what it holds for me by now? Good! lol ha-ha 
I love to share my rainy autumn day in Georgia, today.
Today is beautiful! 
To me, it's what NOT to love on a rainy autumn day here in Georgia?

Yes, I tend to focus and share so much about my life centered on my home, my husband and my simple heart here at our Yellow Cottage. That's just simply who I am and what I love most, to share most!  I am truly a simple home-girl in my comfies when I am in my barbie-size cottage kitchen and LOVIN' IT so much!

A rainy day like this today is so special for me to slumber in bed just a little longer this morning before I get to harvest my last ripe pears to filled a bushel full.

Nowhere to rush out on a day like this but to slow down and to sit down on my porch to peel each pear while my Teddy Bear always sits next to me for company. 





The rain has been steadily and gently watering my gardens nicely all day. Thank you, Mother Nature! I love rainy days because I know my gardens love it too!

From time to time, I glanced over my working hands, peeling the sticky pears over my lap as I take in my home, my stillness, my peace to just be with today's dark skies. Simple pleasure to look out over at my gardens and to see beyond our plain two acres of open pastures, feeling the cool wet rain on my face and hear the rain drops against our tin roof porch, I feel all of life in today's presence.  It's a perfect day!

I see our working white truck parked nearby a pile of woods as my next task for another day.  My thought wished my husband was there right then. He often works on our many chores around our cottage with his white truck. 


I miss him. I miss his presence here today to be with me in my stillness. I miss all the noises he makes when he works from one project to the next project, around our home. I miss his labor of love for us, today as I sat here. 


I miss hearing his country western music he often plays on the radio to keep him company while he works, sweats and always with his oversized cup of water, sitting nearby.

My true love is presence in my heart today as he is working hard in a corporate office for us so I can be at home.  If only he is here to complete that perfect picture on this rainy day for me. So, I set that happy thought aside with knowing that he will be home soon.  
I even love the heartaches of missing my husband today with the excitements to meet up at the airport on Friday and meet our friends for the evening in the city. My heart is so full of life, just "being" still.

Well, I got back to "doing" my tasks at hand to get these pears ready to be cooked. 



I brought them inside and chopped them up to cubed sizes; add my pineapple cubes and orange slices before I can simmer them slowly for the next 4-5 hours before I get to put them in jars.

So, on this rainy day, I am enjoying making my jams from our orchard.  I make it every year, whether it is figs, blueberries or pears each year. I enjoy sending them out to friends and family for the holidays to eat them from our yellow cottage farm. I am making my Pear Ambrosia Jam, today.

I am not an expert or even good at making preservatives or jams but I do attempt at it each year to honor them and then give them away to others to enjoy. These fruits have been given to us so abundantly so I feel bad if I don't at least attempt to use what God has given to us on our abundant little lot of land in Georgia. 

I get so much joy of home and the simple spiritual connection in the ritual when I make them. The smell of  cooking pears on my stove has permeated our little cottage on this rainy day while I write my blog about it.

I am CENTERED and at PEACE to be with myself. To be so content, safe and grounded at home in this simple way on this rainy autumn day in Georgia is a greatest blessing for me.  


I am truly living my happiness, my simple life that I have dreamed so often. 
I am standing in the midst of my dream.

My Teddy Bear is always near to keep me company

 With Love & Happiness,

Hai

What's your Simply Meaningful?

Yesterday, I watched a show on "Braveheart Women", on defining what's your "simply meaningful" and I knew it right away for me. 


It's different for everyone but it reminds us to take note in the simple pleasures of life.

Since I have been traveling so much in this past year and a half with my commute corporate husband, being home on a regular basis this pass 4 weeks has brought me EVEN MORE meanings & appreciation!

I truly appreciate having my simple daily routine to be home more than anywhere else on earth.
I appreciate going to my closet and not to my suitecase.
I appreciate making my coffee from the same coffee pot and reach for the same cup and creamer.
I appreciate waking up and walking outside in my pjs to say good morning to all my happy dogs with my hot coffee in hand.

I appreciate giving them their morning love and treats each day. And while they eat, I enjoy my coffee at our picnic table under this oak tree, like this morning.

I am grateful for what's in front of me, more & more! 

HOME is my "simply meaningful" to my soul! I am willing to give up everything else to keep my peace.

So, what's your simply meaningful?

With Love & Meaningful,


Hai

Receive & Accept Warm Morning Kisses

Receiving my first sight of dawn through my windows...

Are you accepting your warm morning kisses to start enjoying your life, today?...

With Love & Morning Light,


Hai

What are your favorite things to be grateful for ?...

Waking up this Monday morning, I received an amazing vibration of gratitude to feel that..."Everything's going to be all right!" with a "gentle knowing" in my happy heart. 

To me, the ULTIMATE gift  is a "sense of peace" that we can possess in this material world we live in.

I am blessed to be at home!

I opened my sleepy eyes in my comfy bed to see our wooded hill, greeted me with brilliant autumn leaves, on one side of our bedroom windows and as I turned over, I saw our long gravel road with multi-colored maple trees along the road, leading up to our cottage on the other side of our windows. It is indeed a GIFT to be alive today and to feel the morning's  warmth salutation from the sun as I lingered in bed, just a little longer.  

I was prompted to acknowledge these gifts and to say my "thank you prayer" for all my blessings before my feet touched the floor!  Thank you, God. I am so very grateful today and everyday for these gifts.

I woke up feeling SO GRATEFUL to be surrounded by a few of my favorite simple things each and everyday here, being AT HOME!

To have my beloved lifetime partner to grow old with me!

I've realized even more, in that moment that I have arrived to my simple dream of ... "Living in Peace before I Die in Peace " It has always been my personal life mantra.

A beautiful sight of "home" for me to see my husband being handy & to put alot of our labor of love into our lil' love shack.

My garden keeps rewarding us with beautiful fresh flowers, inside and outside.

 I have time to dream, to visualize and to manifest the LIFE we want here together!

Being greeted by my happy outdoor babies, by our picket fence, ready for their treats!

My gardens keep us smiling as we step out of the door

Having my breakfast on our warm patio on a fall day is divine!

Hiking with my four dogs in our woods to be with God and Nature to start our day.

What a beautiful fall day for our walk.

 We share our 45 minutess of happy, healthy & serene hike, each day!

Our daily blessing of Heaven, surrounding  our "home"!

May you stop for a few minutes to take a  look all around you to see ALL the beauty surrounding you, right now!

What are your favorite things to be grateful for, today?

With Love & Gratitude,

Hai

EVERYTHING IS COMING UP ROSES!

Indeed, EVERYTHING IS COMING UP ROSES for us here at our yellow cottage!

Today's favor at the Yellow Cottage's Garden!

What a blessing it is to be here among Nature and God surrounding me in my simple world.

One of the many simpliest joys I get is to be in my garden...
It is ENOUGH! It is a GIFT for me today!

For my husband to know I am cutting them right out of my garden...lol

My JOY is to share all of my happy "hot pink roses" with you, today!





May they bring you smiles and a gladness in your day, my friends!

 No other happiness is greater than to be greeted by these beauties as I step outside my door.

I am honored to be their caretaker. I adore them as they love me back, BEAUTIFULLY!

These roses are my Anniversary gifts from my beloved husband for every year of our marriage!

I love thee with every blossom in return, Darling!

Come right into the heart of our home, pretties!

With Roses of Love,


Hai

Where Have I been?

Since accomplishing my 100 days of blogging everyday without missing a single day on Oct 14,  2011, I took a two weeks break! 

I am in class nowadays with Oprah!   I have been in Oprah's Life Classes in my office, with my Teddy Bear nearby on the sofa. I am in front of my computer each day to catch up with all her lessons for me! 

My personal classroom with Oprah!

There are SO MANY wonderful lessons Oprah offers to aid each one of us to live our BETTER LIFE FULLY!!!

I have learned so much about myself with Oprah's life lessons thus far,  to help me face myself HONESTLY with self-examinations.

I've learned that we all tend to operate our lives from EGO more than we should. I have learned there are so many more of SELF-barriers for me to break through like, 

To forgive and let go of anger! 

To become what I believe, 

To speak my truth will set me free to live the life I want, 

To create and share JOY with others,  

To know I have a calling and to be who I am meant to be AND it doesn't have to be a HUGE thing like Oprah. My highest calling fulfill my heart is being a wife and a mom in my peaceful charming home.

I am 100% responsible for my life, 

To learn to listen to my inner voice more clearly when life speaks to me in a whisper,  and...

I love, love the saying, "when you know better, you do better."

I have a current ongoing project for myself~ to create a vision board with the life I dream for myself is SO MUCH fun!!!!!!!

An area on my porch I give myself permission to dream and post them on this framed vision board

Each lesson provides a worksheet of questions for us to answer on each topic. They have helped me reveal the areas of my life that I need to improve more or that I am on track, in order to live a better ME.

I am a working progress...

These are my dreams & wishes that will manifest to me!

I am so grateful to have Oprah as my teacher and my classroom on the Internet each day. I look forward to come in my office, sit down with my coffee or tea to LEARN about my LIFE.

Sometimes I feel isolated in my private, quite world that I have been trying so hard to shut out all the bad noises of the world. I love to keep my peaceful and serene world in the woods and I go out of my way to protect that.  Now I have good company with Oprah's Life Classes to tune in and enrich my life even more. Thank you, Oprah! Welcome to my home!

To all my friends and family out there:

May you find your teacher, whether it is Oprah's Life Classes or any other teachings? Please keep learning and exploring about yourself in the environment that compliments you and open the path to your heart and soul. 

With Love & Light,

Hai