Happy Yule my friends! Tonight is the longest night (for those of us in the southern hemisphere anyway :) and here in not so sunny Queensland, we are really feeling it this year. It's been SO cold (ok, for us lol) and today the sun was appropriately tucked into bed for the day, beneath a hefty blanket of cloud. The 'actual' date is tomorrow, the 21st of June, but I tend to go with the Celtic (and Jewish too) tradition that the holiday begins at sundown on the night before.
Tomorrow is the boys' last day of school before two glorious weeks of winter holiday time, so they'll come home uber excited and I'll have a special pressie for them (my little tradition, a new pair of cozy winter pajamas :D and we'll have our Yule feast before hubby has to jet off to work for the night! He'll be joining us for the two week holiday break this time, but his vacation doesn't start until Sunday morning, so our feast will be pretty short lived this year!
My PLAN (we all know how THOSE go, right??) was to tuck the lovely little angels that are my sons into bed, and then light some candles on my bedroom altar to coax the sun back, and pop on a headset & attempt a guided meditation. But yeah, that's gone right out the window as the boybarians went completely MENTAL at bedtime and Frodo, (the boys were Frodo, Merry, & Sam on my former blog, lol) who has ADHD & hovers on the edges of Asperger's syndrome, went into complete meltdown mode *sigh* Needless to say, I have NOT covered myself in parental glory this evening. Thankfully I have no alcohol with which to ruin my weight loss efforts at least, right? :/ So, maybe I'll give that a second try tomorrow night... because this night is just royally buggered!
Sometimes real life just does not particularly give a shit that I'm trying to be all spiritual I guess lol.
Yule (or Litha!) blessings friends.
Caz
Tomorrow is the boys' last day of school before two glorious weeks of winter holiday time, so they'll come home uber excited and I'll have a special pressie for them (my little tradition, a new pair of cozy winter pajamas :D and we'll have our Yule feast before hubby has to jet off to work for the night! He'll be joining us for the two week holiday break this time, but his vacation doesn't start until Sunday morning, so our feast will be pretty short lived this year!
My PLAN (we all know how THOSE go, right??) was to tuck the lovely little angels that are my sons into bed, and then light some candles on my bedroom altar to coax the sun back, and pop on a headset & attempt a guided meditation. But yeah, that's gone right out the window as the boybarians went completely MENTAL at bedtime and Frodo, (the boys were Frodo, Merry, & Sam on my former blog, lol) who has ADHD & hovers on the edges of Asperger's syndrome, went into complete meltdown mode *sigh* Needless to say, I have NOT covered myself in parental glory this evening. Thankfully I have no alcohol with which to ruin my weight loss efforts at least, right? :/ So, maybe I'll give that a second try tomorrow night... because this night is just royally buggered!
Sometimes real life just does not particularly give a shit that I'm trying to be all spiritual I guess lol.
Yule (or Litha!) blessings friends.
Caz