Hello Lovelies,

September is such a wonderful month! First of all it makes me really excited for all the 'ber' months. Although I'm adjusting to the school driving again, I'm really loving the cooler mornings. The darkness creeping in slightly earlier makes me feel cozy in the evening, and I'm delighted to be able to light a few candles. There have been quite a few football games playing on the television in the background of our home, and my daughter's soccer practices are more enjoyable with the less intense heat. Some of the plants are thriving in this fall weather, and not having to water as often is such a blessing. We've been eating a lot of hot peppers from the garden. I think our tolerance for heat has grown tremendously, and it's inspired us to come up with our own heat scale. Below are a few pictures from around our home. Sending lots of comforting Fall vibes your way!

​Please enjoy the tarot readings... from my heart to yours!

It's that time of year when the garden starts to take on a wild beauty. The plants have been growing for months and they've endured a lot of heat (this area saw 100 + temperatures quite often through July and August).  Now, it's as if the plants' authentic untamed selves have really started to shine through. It also means I can begin to get really excited for fall and PUMPKINS! A few fall items have trickled into my indoor decor, and I'm so over the moon about it. Please enjoy a few photos from around our home!

Have an absolutely beautiful month! Please enjoy the tarot readings, and be sure to check out your sun, moon, and rising signs for a bigger picture of what I sense going on energetically.
Warmest Wishes!

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Hello Lovely,

Happy August! The sun has been shinning, and shinning and shinning on us here in the Pacific Northwest. We've been spending every spare moment in the garden this summer, and it's really paying off. I'm excited to share more and more photos with you as summer turns into fall. Here are a few recent photos from around our home and garden.

We hope that wherever you are you can feel all the warm wishes we are sending from our hearts and from our home to yours. Please enjoy the most recent tarot readings!
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Hello my lovely friends,

This weekend my daughter really inspired me. She cut off 12 inches of her hair to donate to wigs for kids. I know to some it's just hair, but if you're someone who's ever grown your hair out for a very long time, you know how big of a deal it can be emotionally to cut it off. My daughter has been growing her hair out for her whole life, so it touched my heart deeply that she wanted to donate it. It also brought back memories of my little sister one year asking my parents if instead of getting presents for Christmas the money could go to an animal shelter. You know how BIG of a deal presents are to a little kid!

I love being inspired and really wanted to share those beautiful vibes with you. If you too are feeling inspired, I encourage you to use that momentum to follow your heart and give back in whatever way you feel called to do. If you're in need of an idea my personal favorite charity is https://www.theletitbefoundation.org

Happy Memorial Day, and thank you to all those who dedicate their lives to trying to make this world a better place!

Please enjoy the newest tarot readings below.
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With love,
Wendy

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Welcome!

As you may have guessed by the title, the most exciting thing that happened this week was we broke with tradition and visited our local Christmas tree farm a week early! Usually we get a tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, but it's going to be a busy weekend, and with Covid tree farms are requesting you make an appointment so that they can stay open and keep people safe. I have to say, even though we have our tree up a little early before Thanksgiving, I'm so happy. It looks really beautiful and brings light and joy to our home. I'm also relieved to have one thing taken care of. I absolutely love the holidays, but it can be a lot of effort for sure! Over the years I've learned that spreading out the tasks makes it more enjoyable.

O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree!

With Thanksgiving nearly here, I just want to take a moment to say I'm incredibly grateful to all of you, those old and new, for all the support and love over the years. It truly means a lot to me. Whatever your Thanksgiving looks like, whether you celebrate or not, know that you are a treasure to this world, and to me, and it wouldn't be the same without you.

I'm going to take a week off of creating online to enjoy Thanksgiving and get ready for the Christmas season!! So you'll likely not see a new post until the second week of December, but know you're in my thoughts and prayers!

​Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours! Please enjoy the videos.

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​Snowy November

Warm Wishes,
Wendy Irene

Before I had my first child I had a miscarriage.
I  know exactly when it was... before the bleeding even started. 
I wasn't very far along, maybe 10 or 11 weeks when I went to work one day and started bleeding.
I was 6 weeks when the baby died.
I remember it.
The shower felt really hot... suffocating in fact.
It was small and enclosed with a glass door.
I got out, stepped onto the bathroom floor mat and curled over in pain. It hurt so bad for a moment I lied naked on the floor in a tight ball. 
I also remember the moment I knew I was pregnant. Not when I took the test. It was earlier than that.
I was watching the movie Garden State.
I had a smidge of Bailey's in my coffee. Something I occasionally did on the weekend as a treat.
It's the only time I consciously remember having alcohol when there was a possibility of me being pregnant.
Like it didn't count unless I had proof I was pregnant.
It haunts me from time to time - wondering if I caused damage to my own baby.
Or maybe it wasn't meant to be?
Maybe it happened to teach me something about life and death, unconditional love, or that becoming a parent is a gift?
About 10 years later I stopped drinking completely, barely swallowing a sip here and there to acknowledge the flavor of a good champagne or wine.
I didn't stop because I was addicted, although my heart aches for anyone who is.
I stopped drinking because as I became more and more sensitive to energy. As my intuitive strength grew, and I became stronger in myself I didn't like what alcohol did to me.
It blocked me, and I never wanted to be blocked again.
I want all my senses turned on, working and open.
I want my third eye open.
I want to be able to feel and see the energy around me, visible and not.
I was young... 24 when I miscarried. My body bounced back quickly.
Not too long after the miscarriage, a full cycle, I tried again and got pregnant right away again.
I didn't touch alcohol or anything I thought could even possibly, remotely hurt my baby.
I painstakingly followed all the rules without question.
I had a healthy son.
One that didn't want to sleep anywhere but on me.
One that would bite me hard when he was teething.
A son I love with my whole heart.
3 years after that I gave birth to a big, beautiful 9 lb 5 oz girl.
I often wondered if she was the girl I miscarried come back to be with me on Earth.
If not, and my baby girl is up there in heaven amongst the stars and loving dimensions I hope she knows how much I love her, how much I miss her, how much I would love one of her hugs right now.
I am so excited for the day I knowingly see her again!
I wonder if she sits over my shoulder loving me unconditionally.
I wonder if she hears me when I cry, if she feels when my heart hurts.
I wonder if she felt the pain I felt the moment she died in my tummy. 
I know she's with me whether she's a part of my daughter, or my guardian angel, or both...anything's possible.
I'm so lucky she loved me so much she let me carry her for the amount of time she did.
Maybe it's important to say I have no proof she was a girl. I just know. 
I want you to know that true love can never die, whether it walks beside us in human form or not.
I want you to know that your heavenly babies love you and are still with you.
And there are a lot of women like me who are here for you, who's heart both hurt with yours, and share your joy.
I pulled this card today and I knew it was time...
15 years later to feel her with me now, share our story (hers and mine),
​And let you know I am here for you!

Hi friends!

Welcome to our home sweet home.

This year we had a cozy Thanksgiving at home.

The main feature was vegetable pot pie, as per the kids request. We actually prepared the filling ahead of time, cooled it completely, placed it into the raw crust, and instead of cooking it, we froze it. Then, on Thanksgiving, when we were preparing the other dishes on the stove-top, we baked it. It turned out amazing with a nicely browned crust and a bit of filling bubbling through the 3, heart-shaped vents in the middle! That's the first time we pre-made the vegetable pot pie and cooked it from frozen, so we were thrilled it worked out so well.

While we were cooking, there was also some sports going on at the same time of course...

This is us feeling accomplished after lots of cooking AND Gonzaga winning the Thanksgiving day basketball game at the same time!

Naturally, the very second Thanksgiving was over we were full on into Christmas over here! I have to admit we did have a mini rosemary tree with Christmas lights on it out for Thanksgiving. We needed rosemary for the mashed potatoes, so a holiday tree seemed like the way to go... and OK, I've been watching Hallmark Christmas movies for quite a while now, maybe even as early as Halloween. . . I figure every year I age the time goes by a little faster so I can start watching earlier, right?! 2020 marks a milestone birthday for me, 4-0! So I'll probably have to start watching Christmas movies in September. I like to call it the Christmas half of the year. Plus a Hallmark Christmas movie is just what I'd prescribe if you're having a down day, any time of the year hehe ;-).

On black Friday, while hundreds thronged to the malls and superstores, our family ventured out of the city into Green Bluff, Washington to pick out the perfect little Colorado Spruce. They are wonderfully fragrant, silvery blue/green, prickly and altogether beautiful. I love how there's lots of space between the branches for ornaments to hang nicely, and these trees are great at keeping their needles. Plus, any contact with them hurts so it deters little ones from wanting to play with the tree.

Putting the lights on the tree up and down each branch is a ton of painful work, but so worth it in the end! Pretty sure Griswold would agree it has a lot of meaning that way (this Clark sure does)!

The lights and feathers are on and it's already dark here at the late hour of 3:45pm, so we hung the ornaments under the soft tree glow.

This year the children hung a record number of ornaments themselves, but they were kind to me and asked often how I felt about the placement. Isn't that sweet?! Some things I'm really enjoying about them getting older. There really are jewels at every stage.

And this is what the tree looks like in broad daylight when we wake up in the morning.

Living in the city, we don't have a fireplace, and I have to say I really miss it! There are great perks, though, like living 2 seconds from the best coffee shop in the Pacific Northwest--or the best in the world if you ask me, Indaba. No joke, the only thing we dislike about going out of town to travel is leaving our favorite coffee shop behind. We've turned into such a pair of chai tea snobs!

We got a little creative and created a woodsy themed mantel under the good ol' Netflix yule log, and we don't even have to worry about the stockings catching fire, or melting any chocolate Santa might put in them. There's always a bright side!

We hope you have a divine, magical holiday season and that December is full of wonder for you!

p.s. While you're here visiting check out a few, fun favorite holiday recipes of ours! Any treasured dishes or cookies you're going to make? Let us know in the comments. We love hearing about all things CHRISTMAS!

Hoping the last days of the year are merry and bright! Wishing for you some white sparkly snow too (if you want it of course ;-)

With love, gratitude, and warmest wishes from our family to yours,
​Wendy Irene

Conflict; just hearing the word can make us feel uneasy. The thing is unless you live in a bubble, which I’m pretty sure you don’t since you’re on the internet, conflict is a part of all of our lives. If you have a family, it might be a part of daily life, or even hourly, ha!
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In this video I talk about a great way to keep your vibration elevated so that you have more to give in the situation. If your vibration drops, don’t worry it happens, but as soon as you’re conscious of it remember you’re only a moment, or a quick visualization away from raising it again.

Watch this video to find out more.

From the space of unconditional love we are better able to serve no matter how tempting it is to jump out and meet someone where they are at. When you stay centered in the space of your true being you don’t jeopardize your feelings of self-love, and that energy alone can create powerful transformation. The more you practice this, the easier it gets. Please don’t beat yourself up if it takes a lot of practice, or it doesn’t always work for you. Praise yourself for wanting to be connected to your higher-self, or unconditional love as often as you possibly can.

Lots of love & peaceful vibes,
Wendy Irene

Do you love being a Mom but also wonder if there is more to life? Do you ever feel lost in your parental duties? Do you wonder how you can find a
way to answer your higher calling and simultaneously do your sacred work as a parent?

In this video I discuss the importance of having a creative outlet in order to feel fulfilled. Having a creative outlet has had an enormous impact on my life and overall happiness. I urge you not to ignore the voice inside that quietly but persistently whispers or longs for something more.

YouTube Video: http://youtu.be/V9kyv50oxrk

Thank you for watching, friends! I appreciate you.

Your voice matters and your experience helps others. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

Are you a Mom that feels lost in the onslaught of parental duties? Have you ever struggled to feel fulfilled? What advice do you have for other Moms in the community?

With love & gratitude,
 Wendy Irene