This is my favorite band!!!!!  They are a pagan folk band from The Netherlands.

www.worldofomnia.com

Also on MySpace.

Enjoy!

Ape

In case anyone is interested... here is a Link for more info on all five types of Bipolar Disorder and here is a link for info on all five types of Schizophrenia.

Love to you all and thank you for all your support thru this difficult time.

Bright Blessings,

Ape

I had some sort of a mental break down recently.  I saw my doctor on Friday.  I am now on a new med, which seems to be helping much more than the old, and she is working on a referral to a psychiatrist. 

Anyway, this is all a HUGE step for me; and it is the hardest thing I have ever done.  I never tell anyone how I REALLY feel.  I was always afraid of rejection or afraid they would lock me up and i would never see my family again.

I am taking a much needed vacation from the 23rd thru the 30th.  My daughter, my best friend and I are going to see my family for the holiday.  My husband can't come because of his work so he is staying home to take care of all our animals.  

Please send me all the positive, healing and supportive energy you can possibly spare over the next few months.  I have to start talking about a lot of painful things that i thought i was never going to have to face again... and i am very scared.

Thanks Bunches and Bright Blessings to All!

April

There are so many WONDERFUL resources here and even a whole section just for kids.  Here is a link directly to the kids pages. 

F.Y.I. - This is not my own personal site.  I just found it when I was browsing a little over a year ago and I have been hooked ever since!

Bright Blessings,

April

I have been soooooooo busy!!!

I finally have been given the opportunity at my job to work at home.  I love it; but I miss my friends and my daily "social hour".  I am a social butterfly, when it comes to my friends anyway, so this is a BIG adjustment to me.  I also start a lot earlier in the day now, since I don't have the one hour drive into work everyday!!! YAY!!! It's another way of me contributing to the healing of our mother earth.  This also means I have internet at my house now so all my computer stuff is set up now in my office with my work's equipment.  I am so excited about this because now I can start doing my graphic design and photography again!!!  I have to go thru my tutorials on the new versions of the programs I use... it's been a while and NOTHING looks familiar on them... glad I bought the professional manuals for them!!!

My cousin has recently moved in with us for the rest of the summer.  She is a 5th year senior in college and was lonely staying on campus all by herself so we moved her out to the country with us for about 3 weeks.  We will miss her tremendously when she goes back to school; but she knows how to get to to our house now and it is only an hour from the city.  She has promised to visit WAY more often now!  YAY!!!

Lastly, Miss Kaity has started school again.  She is now in the second grade.  She is doing fantastic... as usual.  She is having some conflicts within herself though.  She doesn't like being the "smart kid" in her class.  The grown ups LOVE it but the kids are cruel!  One day everyone loves her and wants o be her friend and the next day they are all picking on her and she is the outcast.  Unfortunately, she is having to learn these lessons at a VERY early age.  The worst thing about all this is it is affecting her so badly that she is now back talking at home too.  

I am hoping that her going thru this phase at such an early age she will learn how important it is to just be herself whether people around her like her or not!  This happened oppositely for me.  I was "miss popular" all thru grade school and when I got to middle school... it all changed!  On top of having the normal 13-year old "my life is over" hormonal catastrophes... I had to deal with the fact that I went from everyone knowing me because I was the most "popular" girl in school to knowing me because I am the school "freak"!  It took me a while but learned that I absolutely LOVED just being myself and having REAL friends!  I LOVED not having to "primp" just to go to the grocery store with my mom!  I just loved being me!

Please everyone keep Kaity in your blessings; and send her a little extra courage if you have some to spare.  We thank you for it and I know her Higher Self appreciates it.

Bright Blessings in Light & Love,

April

P.S. If you like the graphics at the beginning of this blog, they are available from Castle Solitude Arts.  Here is the link to their website: