Happy New Year

I know it may be crazy, but New Year's is my favorite holiday these days! I love the newness---doesn't it offer hope? Doesn't it feel fresh and clean? With a new year you can wrap up all your hopes and dreams for your life and what you wish you will create. The year is fresh and clean---not soiled! All that it holds is pure potentiality! I LOVE IT!

Mandy (my 9 year-old daughter) and I spend the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve preparing! I still have one more grocery store to go to on New Year's Eve and one more trip to the party store for our helium balloons on New Year's Eve evening! I have much work to do in the kitchen before the festivities can begin!

But Tuesday about 2 pm our fun will begin! I will light the candles around the house and serve our first course---cheese fondue with sparkling apple cider. We will have the biggist fondue party of the year! As we snack and enjoy the ambience, we will write our gratitude list. We will list the people and the things that occurred during 2007 that brought us joy or hard-earn lessons. We will share our list with one another and celebrate that we made it through the challenges and delight in glories as we each share.

After that we will tackle the Yuckiness of 2007. (That is how I used to explain it Mandy when she was younger.) We will dredge up the wounds, the pain, the grief of the days gone by this year. We will examine those things we are not proud of. As we look at our lists (and mostly keep them private), we will do healings on those events. We will release the energies of those events as we NEVER want to repeat those mistakes. It is a huge clue that if it is still coming up as a regret there is energy attached to that event that can be cleared! So using the New Conscious Energy Healing, we will LET GO! Afterwards we have a symbolic burning bowl ceremony and release the old energy of 2007 that is no longer serving us and that we do not want to take with us into the new year. Then using the wisdom of our Native American brothers and sisters, we light our sage and cleanse each other. This is our energy bath!!! We are ready for new things!

After all this we will probably be ready for the next course, the main course of our fondue party. We may have time to start our Wii Sports Tournament of Champions that will be held through out the New Years celebration! We will see who, after the best 2 out of 3, walks away winner of Boxing, Tennis, Golf and Baseball. With my lack of athletic prowness, I hope I don't embarrass myself! Even if I do, I hope to laugh loud enough to overcome my embarrassment!

Next we will begin to work on our visions of what we want to create in the new year! We will make these colorful lists and then attach them to balloons. Together we will go outside and pray and then launch our balloons asking for special help from the angels to bring our desires into manifestation!

Then it is time for some partying! Mandy and I have each chosen a theme-song for the coming year. We have chosen a song that will require us to stretch and grow. One that we will use during the coming year to tap into during the coming year to help us move forward towards the larger vision of our life! Mandy has chosen "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" and I have chosen "We are All in This Together!" A little fun loving karaoke never hurt anyone! At least there is no gong to knock me off the stage if and when I go off key!

Then before the night is over, we will chow down on our dessert, chocolate fondue! To get a full picture of what we look like, we will be in our jammies with crazy crowns on and pink boas! By the end of the night, we will have chocolate smeared on our big 'ole smiling faces!

When we wake-up the next morning we will greet the year by running outside and saying hello to the year. In our hands are cans of silly string! We will proceed to spray each other and have a silly string fight! We usher in the year with lots of joy and laughter...followed by food and a day of fellowship! We will play games and watch DVDS and enjoy being together and NEVER get our of our jammies!

Wishing you a big bowl of black-eyed peas and cornbread and lots of prosperity in 2008!

January