Sunday, August 19, 2012

A Few Birds with One Stone

As we are nearing our D Date (have you heard- we are off to travel the world for a year or two or more) - the amount of things to do is dizzying. Of Course. The height of this madness sure to be the day we need to move. Itay will conveniently drive the girls to the Cape while I finish all the last things. Sweet. But until then, we are trying to keep the family sane while being productive. Keeping the family sane entails trying not to change too much of our surroundings while still trying to pack up a house. Interesting task. Sunday afternoon project- Itay has amassed a huge pile of paper to be shredded- and decided today that we could shoot a few bits with one stone.

Birds are:
- Destroy papers with sensitive info
- Entertain girls
- Use up art supplies no longer needed and that we do not want to store

Stones:
- PAINT - tons of it
- Ok- some face paint too as you will see

The Arsenal

Genius plan:
Put the girls on the deck with all the papers. Give them a bucket, water, art supplies, and tell them to go crazy.

So happy

Painting Each Other


They did.

We ate dinner, drank wine, and laughed at the folly. Then the funnies part was that Amit- covered in face paint could not get it off. She will probably be covered for the rest of the week. It is pretty funny.


Itay gets in on the fun

Looking forward to many more moments together like this.

India - here we come!


5 comments:

  1. sounds so fun!!! i hope you have a great year and look forward to hearing all about it. xoFirth

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  2. Good work, good fun; alot like our classes. Looking forward to your blog and so many adventures.

    Hugs
    Paul

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  3. Thanks Firth and Paul. Much love to you both. What does it say that my first two comments came from Canadians??

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  4. You think this is just another day in your life ??

    It's not just another day..

    It's the one day that is given to YOU,
    Today.
    It's given to you,
    It’s a gift.
    It’s the only gift that you have right now,
    And the only appropriate response
    is gratefulness!

    If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were, the very first day in your life and the very last day,
    Then.. you will have spend this day very well.

    Begin by opening your eyes...
    and be surprised that you have eyes you can open.
    Enjoy the incredible array of colors that is constantly
    offered to us, for our pure enjoyment.

    Look at the sky..
    But really look at the sky, we so rarely look at the sky,
    And notice how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going.

    We just think of the weather. Even with the weather. we don't think of all the many nuances of weather.

    We just think of good weather and bad weather, but this day right now, is "unique weather".

    Maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again, the formation of clouds in the sky will never be the
    same that is right now.

    Open your eyes look at that..

    Look at the faces of people whom you meet,
    Each one has an incredible story behind their face,
    A story that you could never fully fathom,
    Not only their own story,
    But the story of their ancestors, we all go back so far.
    And in this present moment,
    On this day.

    All the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world,
    Flows together and meets you here, like a life giving water,
    if you only..open your heart and drink.

    Open your heart,
    to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us,
    You flip a switch and there is electric light,
    You turn a faucet and there is warm water and cold water,
    and drinkable water.

    It’s a gift that millions and millions in the world will never experience.

    So these are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open your heart.

    So I wish you, that you will open your heart
    To all these blessings
    And let them flow
    through you.

    That everyone who you will meet on this day.

    Will be blessed by you,
    Just by your eyes,
    By your smile,
    By your touch,
    Just by your presence.

    Let the gratefulness over flow into blessings all around you.

    Then it will really be…
    A good day

    Roberto @ Shambala Petit
    Hip Hotel & Yoga Retreat
    Tulum Quintana Roo
    Mexico
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  5. To all the family have a beautiful trip, I laught so much with the placenta issues, Only Lauren...
    Papa Itay enjoy this life oportunity, your girls look beautiful, so big ohh my good, you are a beautiful example to lots of people, keep inspiring us.. Much love and appreciation. Ro

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