We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience

Friday, January 02, 2026

The week in review

This week has been a bit of a rollercoaster - both relaxing and stressful. Not stressful due to the usual holiday bustle, but because of the horrible 20-some degree weather with a lot of ICE on top of it (not to mention the terrible winds) all of which caused my car not to start come Monday. Strange given the fact that Monday's temps here were in the mid 40's. At any rate, my hubby put a new battery in it on New Year's Day (of course he had a very frustrating time trying to get the old one out because it was still frozen to the inside of my car). 

My good friend, Jesenia aka Chef Jesenia, and I had plans to FINALLY go to Murdough's Christmas Barn. A place which she had never been to before. I was supposed to drive us there, but since my car would not start that day, she drive us instead ...


I ended up buying a couple of little items ...

A couple of pics I took with my digital camera ...
Jesenia surprised me with this awesome mermaid mug and soup dish set for Christmas...💗

And, my gift to her was to treat her to a nice lunch after shopping at The Railroad House - another place which she has never been to before. While at Murdough's, I saw something that I thought she might enjoy and so I bought it for her as part of her Christmas gift. After Jesenia returned home, she took this pic of it and sent it to me. :)

Moving on, this is the last day of the company shutdown between Christmas and New Year's. As always, it went by WAYYYY too fast! I didn't do much for New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
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Wishing all a nice and safe weekend!

Saturday, December 27, 2025

Holiday Spirit?

A few years ago during one of our Yule Celebrations, two of my friends witnessed two distinctive figures standing in our hallway. They described them as a man and a woman whom we could only guess were my husband's uncle and his only daughter both whom passed away from cancer - one from lung and one from pancreatic. I was performing the Yule ritual and so I was not paying attention to the hallway but rather sitting with my back to it and at the altar at the time.

For the last couple of weeks or so, our cat Teddy has been driving me crazy sitting at the doorway between our living room and the small hallway. He just sits there staring up at the ceiling crying loudly as if he sees something I don't. What could he be crying at the ceiling for? A cobb web, a small bug crawling up it? Nope. So, usually don't do this, but I grabbed my digital camera and took a picture of the entranceway into the hallway and THIS is what the camera picked up ...

Okay, so I took another picture at the same time while standing in the very same spot in the living room that I took the first one, but no orb this time ...

Another look after I cropped the first one ...

 
Perhaps it was something on the camera lens - a small particle maybe or even some kind of a reflection? But if so, then why did it disappear and not show up on the second pic that I took? Keeping in mind that we have had some paranormal activity in our house in the past (so much so that I had to perform a house cleansing in each and every corner of each an every room after which it all seemed to stop completely) I can not help but to think that either this spirit is back again, OR perhaps it could even be my mother stopping by as this pic was taken on Christmas Eve. If so, she could have been here all along, but I just never paid much attention. Her urn is still sitting on spare bedroom dresser facing a door to the hallway and mirror. 

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As I walked out on Yuletide,
The winter winds blew cold
I saw the Winter King a-standing,
Grey and grim and old
His cloak was pulled around Him,
A child was in His hand
And He sang, “Blessed Be and Blessed Be

And Blessed Be again!”

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Another Christmas season come and gone



Greetings, all! I hope you had a very blessed day! With my side of the family no longer with us, my hubby and I spent the day with my MIL and had a holiday dinner as per usual. We cooked a ham, seasoned potatoes, and had corn as a side dish. I think about my parents every single day of my life, so today I decided the only way I could honor them was to wear a cameo pendant locket with their pictures inside, keeping them close to my heart ...


Some pics from my MIL's house ...
My hubby surprised me with these special gifts ...
A mermaid shower mat to go with our nautical themed bathroom and a pretty pair of mermaid earrings ...
And, the kitties got a little treat "Thanks!" to my hubby's cousin and her family ... 💓

A couple of pics of our fur babies before we left for the day ...

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Weekend happenings


Such is the case with my "seester" Aurora Skye. She was once technically my sister-in-law as she was at one time married to my husband's brother; however, that never mattered because from the very first time I met her we had a connection. Family came second after that. She and I will always have a close relationship even though we are no longer legally in-laws. 

Yesterday, we finally had a chance to spend some time together before the holidays and also exchange our gifts to one another ...


She gave me a wonderful gift bag of goodies! Among them were this cat book marker ...

This really cool cat bag ...


An awesome Yankee Candle which smelled GREAT! ...

Inside the cat bag, were two essential oils to help me with much I am currently going through at the moment ...
We did a little shopping and I found this cute little Hello Kitty Ceramic Christmas Tree to add to my holiday decorations this year ...

We also stopped off at Murdough's Christmas Barn and I bought these really cool items ...
These two Jim Shore treasures - the purrfect pumpkin and Peter Cotton Tail ...

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Wednesday musings ...


Happy Wednesday, my friends! Just a quick little post for today. My co-worker and friend, Ms. Sonia, surprised today with this special gift bag of "goodies" for Christmas ...  

A mug filled with hot chocolate and marshmallows, a little bag of candy, and ...
A warm winter hat with a little bottle of spirit rolled up inside of it! LOL!! ...
A pic taken of us just today during first break at work.
And, a pic of us taken at her 60th Birthday Celebration last year! 

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A very rare pic of Miss Ginger and Lady Tabitha lying side by side taken just this afternoon before work (Teddy looking out of the living room window at the left over snow we had last Saturday night) ...
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Butterscotch looking out of the other living room window ...


And, adding Charlie to the group photo ...

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