the cutest grad

She made it through high school!!!!!!!!!!!
Straight A's.  4.22 average.
Super challenging college math class this past semester.

Four years of high school included - Transition from home school to regular school. New friendships. Overcoming shyness.  Growing pains.  Facing fears.  Learning a new educational system of 21st century skills.  Mastering computers, cameras, video cameras, and all things technological.  Dealing with dyslexia.  Lots of reading. Taking tests.  Public presentations at school.  Projects.  Working in groups.  College classes at the high school.

College visits.  College applications.  Scholarship applications.  Essays.  Waiting.  

Tennis classes.  Surfing.  Bad haircuts.  Skateboarding.  Band camp.  Playing concerts.  Feeding the local homeless.  Meditation retreats.  Friends visiting from California.  Travel to many places. Learning to meditate.  World travel to Italy, France.

Diver's ed.  Driver's license.  Proms and other dances.  First boyfriend.

Recording songs.  Singing harmonies.  Playing piano, guitar, drums.  Recording an entire album in your bedroom.

Movie auditions.  TV auditions.  Connecting with people in Hollywood.  Watching lots of films, and honing your acting skills.

A curve ball senior year.  Huli stomach.  Disappointment.  Loneliness.  Growth.  New beginnings.

Our little songstress, comic, actress, braniac, tech savvy, dancing, compassionate, sweet, loving, beautiful magical healer girl.

Sky, you are loved by many.  Your friends adore you.  You have touched the lives of every student and teacher at your small school.  Just read what they wrote to you in your yearbook.  Your siblings look up to you. Daddy and I couldn't have asked for a better oldest child to be the leader of our children.  We are so proud of you and we love you soooooooo much.

Can't wait to see what's next for you Sky!

meditation today and some laughs

I have been teaching all our kids a meditation technique for the last few months. Today I meditated with all three of them together for the first time.

Somehow, this morning, both girls were begging me to meditate with them, saying we missed the last two days.
Shawn decided to peek his head in and see what we were up to.
Then he decided to join us.
And... Shawn left half way through the meditation.

It's all good.

He'll be back.

We had a great time together.  At first we were all laughing together and that felt great.  I told them a story of a woman who used to come to my yoga classes and make a scene with her behavior, her fidgeting, her demands of attention on the teacher, and her weird sounds, until eventually she was so disruptive that the teacher asked her to leave.  I told them not to be like her in my class.  They thought that was hilarious.

corner view~somewhere else

Pretty soon we are going to a new place to live for awhile.  In about seventy days, (not that I am counting), we leave the home we have known for fifteen years, and we are trying something new.  Somewhere else.

We are going to a place we have spent a little time visiting.  We don't know much about this place. We know some of the roads, some of the stores, a couple restaurants, a few of the people.

Yet I feel surprisingly relaxed about it all.  There is plenty of fresh air and green there, and it feels right.

Change is good sometimes.  I think this will be good for us all.

conveyor

Annabel's first EP is available on iTunes and many other music promo sites all over the world, including Russia, Japan, France, and soon India.

Here it is in case you want to check it out https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rain-time/id983742879?i=983742903&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.

Four songs, all are wonderful.  My favorite is called Rain Time.