I can so get that!
I love the close knit love between all of you. Family can be such a bond of protecting and uplifting one another when needed.
Just need to make two big bubbles with an air lock passage between them, your own private porta potties and bubble leash for big fluffy love ball of pure love!
Synchronicity--i woke up this morning dreaming of driving a stick shift. I immediately told my husband i need to relearn and practice a stick shift.
We have a 2001 Honda Insight 2 passenger tiny car. Second year they were made. It can go for 90 miles on a gallon of gas but no baggage space at all. Super efficiency but in a pinch its always there. You feel like you're sitting on the ground but lots of fun.
Learned to drive with a stick in the snow with chains parking on steep almost straight up streets in Juneau.
We had 2 previous sticks but last one I drove was 30 years ago. I'm sure I'd be a gear grinder driving without a reminder lesson!
Oh man! I shall so be with you on this journey. Family car caravans are how we do travels too. ?
You can do this!
More Synchronicity. I learned to drive on a stick shift, a silver '81 Honda Accord hatch back. There was a time as a young driver that my father, 2 Great Uncles, Grandfather and I all had Honda's. We could have been in a commercial. Ha Ha. I am very impressed with your driving expertise. Juneau in the snow. WOW. I have have the great pleasure of visiting Juneau 2 times back in 2006 and 2007 during summer. I would go back to Alaska in a heartbeat. I really loved my time in Sitka too. My youngest LOVED to pick berries and would only eat them if she picked them herself. So, we went berry picking in both Sitka and Ketchikan. I think they were mostly salmon berries, though we also found Huckle berries in the Sitka national park too. She saw her first Banana slug in the park also. Wonderful times.
I will visualize your bubbles, they made me smile. Thanks. :D
Totally understand the dog coming along. We have criss-crossed the country several times for our moves, with cats and dogs. On the last one, to get out here, I made a deal with hubby: I'll drive the SUV with the roof carrier and ALL the pets. You get the teenager. No trades-ies. Worked like a charm.
I also get it that people have to try to make a living, and I certainly wish you all the protection you and your family need, BUT why is your daughter so committed to this job and relo? (OK not to answer - it's none of my business.) Can she not hold off or get work somewhere less dangerous? For example, here in CA all the colleges are online only for Fall, and just yesterday San Diego and LA announced online only for K-12.
I will do my best to contribute to the bubble of safety in any case, and frankly I'm kind of also praying for a miracle that gets your daughter elsewhere.
In March I think I got the virus, no sense of smell or taste, some coughing, a low grade fever during the afternoon, but the nights were awful. I would have weird dreams, one dream I was on the tarmac of a generic airport and there was an escalator going up. In another dream I asked a voice if this was a punishment from God and the voice answered yes, then I asked can we be forgiven at first the voice was about to say yes, but then it said I don't know. Over a long period of time I got better. I changed things though dropped twenty pounds, and felt better. I would have anxiety though and feelings that I would describe as PTSD. Enough anxiety that I would get some shortness of breath, went to the emergency room because I thought I was having a heart attack, they said nope anxiety. Went to a cardiologist and he said that my heart worked better than his. During this time I've been on this site and I don't understand why but it just makes me calmer. So I Love this place not necessarily for the predictions but for the people, it kinda calms me down.
I usually get weird dreams but not necessarily predictions except for one: years ago I had a dream that I was on the ground after an accident and I was dying, people were walking around me. I was driving along and it seemed a car flipped over crossed the median and hit me from the side, and I was hurt bad. The person in the other car was totally fine got out without a scratch, I thought, so unfair, then I went black and woke up.
Last year I was driving home from Sam's Club I had bought something or other, doesn't seem important now. I was a quarter of a mile away from home when a white Lexus jumps the median goes straight and hits the curb. I stopped immediately and do not move I don't know why to this day, since the Lexus was 30 feet in front of me. Then a car flips over, goes across the median and lands two feet in front of my bumper, I get out of the car go to the driver's side to see if the person was okay and he comes out totally fine without a scratch, mind you the car is upside down and only in my lane. I went home and was stupefied for the next day or so when I realized the entire situation in it's entirety.
Oh, yeah, I'm a 42 year old man from Houston, TX. I'm an accountant, not married no kids. I enjoy travelling. So that's my introduction, I guess.
Welcome to our community and thanks for the introduction. I find our community also calms me down. It cares and is very loving. It brings me hope and allows light to be shed in dark times. I am glad it calms you too. Consider joining our Wednesday evening meditations, they always seem to lift me up.
You dream is amazing. Somehow you were able to stop before tragedy occurred. Intuition? Angels? Both perhaps? What a great story, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for everything Laura.
Her boyfriend of 4 years lives in Texas and is an engineer. They met in college and he moved back to his home state when he graduated They have been separated for 2 years, the first when she was away in England getting her Masters and this past year while living with us here while teaching.
They feel they really need to live in the same city now. They had been flying out to see each other but that can't happen know.
Texas also happens to really support music education. Arizona is horrible about supporting anything education related. They are usually rated the last in the nation. She was hired to start at a brand new school which has just been built and will be their first music educator. It is a very good district too and they fund their music programs. Her budget for classroom needs last year was $75. It is over a $1,000 this year. ( She had 2 chalkboard in her class and no working wifi, working tv or projector. She used her own money to buy a CD player. She could not see any school announcements either without a tv. The funny thing about the chalkboard was she had never had one in school growing up. Her schools all had white boards and then smart boards. I had to tell her how to wash the boards and clean the erasers. I am hopeful her new district will begin online this year, some neighboring districts are doing just that and ignoring the hollow guidelines from the state of Texas.
I applaud the LA and San Diego Unified school districts. Good for them. Our neighborhood AZ school district decided to go fully online until mid October when the first quarter ends.I hope a good solution can be found for parents who need to work and also for special ed students who need in person education. If I were a working parent with a young student I would see about pairing up with another family who had similar respect for the seriousness of this virus. I would expand that bubble a little so that our families could share watching/monitoring our kids. I have friends who have children with special needs and their children have regressed since schools went online. I feel for their concern and worry.
Welcome @jsr78 !! This is a little cove of safety in a big, bad world. I appreciate your dream premonition and how you subconsciously responded when faced with the reality of it. And I have no doubt that your angels helped you stop your car!
We all have to do what we feel is right for us, and live our lives in the time of pandemic. Your daughter is going on with life as safely as she can. I applaud her courage, her love for her boyfriend and her start at a new life. Your love for her in overcoming your fears and helping her move is what we do as parents! Your name here is so apropos -Lovendures.
When it comes down to it, that is all we have...our enduring love for our families and those whom we have admitted into our families.
@jsr78 welcome, glad you are here. For me, and for so many, this place and the dear ones who are here are my life raft. When things get too heavy and scary the friends here provide a safe space and uplifting support and love. Thank God for Jeanne for creating it for all of us. May you feel the peace and calm we share.
You have been on my mind so often this week and I wondered about both your trip home from Colorado and your daughter's prospective move. Didn't realize it was all happening this week. Oh my. Dear heart, I will be praying for you and your family. These are tough, tough decisions. I echo Laura's concerns about your daughter's move. It is Not my business either! Yet, I feel your angst and wish we had a different reality.
A dear friend of mine has a daughter who recently graduated from college and achieved her dream job in NYC. My friend and her husband moved the daughter to NYC and then Covid took off. They got her out and she was able to work remotely. Things have a way of working out. Things will work out for your daughter, too, in an unexpected way. It's tough to live through uncertainty and danger, but I do believe. you will get through this. Your daughter will get through this, but keep in mind this is a rapidly changing situation.
Please know I am praying for you and your family and sending you much love and protection.
Ah, now I get it. Thanks for elucidating. Now I can direct my intentions strongly.
My own daughter and her BF are moving out of our garage and getting an apartment with another friend, and her unemployment will be done in a few weeks. It's nerve wracking on many levels, but I understand the need for young people who are not high risk especially to try to get on with a semblance of a life. He has been working full time as a mechanic this whole time. I'm hoping she can find a job where she doesn't have to be in the midst of the unmasked masses.
As for pairing up - that's exactly what I'm thinking too - go see my reply to Michele on the "Reopening..." thread.