My Everyday Magic

Good morning everyone! Flirty Fairy here! I have been all about *showing up* lately. Playing big, stepping into my light, whatever you want to call it. I saw this drawing: and it really struck me as being SO TRUE. You need to step out of that comfort zone to really make big things happen in your life!!

And I have been lately – and it’s been TERRIFYING!! Mostly in a good way I launched my new business on 11-11-11… and while I was super excited, when it actually came down to people calling me and wanting me to work for them, and then actually DOING IT, I become paralyzed with fear.

I have to keep reminding myself that “Fear is just excitement without the breath.” That little voice in your head saying scary things is just your neurotic Ego trying to protect itself. So take a deep breath, tell your Ego everything is going to be fine, and take a giant step from the little circle into the big one. And it’s been off-the-wall, knock-your-handknit-socks-off AMAZING. I can’t believe I waited so long to feel like this!!

Oh, and here’s a little quote from someone you may have heard of… Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series (which, for the record, I couldn’t get past the first chapter of, but there’s no denying she is a HUGE success), told All Things Girl e-zine that when she was in college, “I was too much a coward to write my own stories and let people see what was going on inside my head. One of the biggest challenges of my writing career has been getting past that shyness.” And look what happened when she did…

What are YOU going to do to put yourself *Where the magic happens?* I can’t wait to hear!!

My Magic:

~Starting with a new client and feeling AMAZING about the work I am doing and how much I’m helping her!

~My wonderful, amazing, sweet, funny, adorable kitty cats, and how much I feel like a mama because of them

~My sweetie, who is also wonderful, amazing, sweet, funny, and adorable!

~My awesome friends!

~Looking forward to Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays – going out the night before, eating yummy food, and being thankful for all the wonderful things in my life. Plus, my daddy’s coming to visit and we’re going to build cool stuff for my house.

What’s YOUR magic today?

The Spicy Fairy and Friends!

Happy November 1st everyone! Taking on Tuesdays is new for me, but I’m pretty sure I can handle it This might be a sign; is there something new in your life you could try and/or possibly conquer? This theme has prevailed inside me for years now, but I always find ways to busy myself enough to forget about them… But not anymore. It’s time to man up. Tuesday Magic is not nearly as adventurous as I need to be getting; I need to dare myself to try deeper things. It’s the beginning of the month; there has to be a couple things we can all dare ourselves to do! Hit me with some dares, I believe in you!

My Dares;

~ losing my fear to love. I’ve never had an official “boyfriend,” but Nick seems to be an option right now… He’s been my best guy-friend for years, ever since him and my ex-best friend broke up. We’ve been there for each other for a while now, and we definitely have some sort of chemistry. I’m scared to let go of my self-control, but if I want to get anywhere with love, I need to start somewhere…

~ losing my inhibitions of what people think of me. I understand that I’m a teenage girl, but I think I care way too much about what people think of me. I need to start focusing on what I think of myself. I’m going to strive to find my own beauty, inside and out.

~ losing 5 pounds. Typical, I know. But it’s always good to have a goal!

My Magic;

~ yesterday at my town’s Project Safe Halloween, I manned a booth with two of my best friends. (Mary is the skier, Kristen is the baby.) We saw so many adorable children, and by the end my face hurt from smiling so much! Children are literally the epitome of pure happiness; if you’re lucky enough to have children, please recognize how lucky you are. <3

~ ^ last night I was the “Sweet Fairy,” Spicy’s alter ego.

~ we have a 2 hour delay today… I feel it is sort of unnecessary, but I guess it’s good for those who don’t have power. I feel so bad for them, but it’ll come back soon!

~ unfortunately because of this delay, my field trip to a Jail was cancelled. Last year I pushed my sociology teacher to make this trip, and because he knew how badly I wanted to go he sneaked me a permission slip this year without me even being in his class. Maybe something better than that learning experience will happen today?

~ this weekend!

So, for the first day of this month I dare you to dare yourself! I’m curious, what do you want to change? I love you!

The Flirty Fairy

What are you declaring your independence from today? What has been holding you down, keeping you back? Let go of it! Write a Declaration of Independence!

I am declaring my independence from pettiness, from jealousy, and from a need to make everything about me. I am declaring independence from my need for approval!

Ah, that felt gooooooooooood…….

You know, I was in Independence Hall in Philadelphia a few months ago (just a side trip on a cheesesteak run ) and I got a little emotional – you wouldn’t believe the energy in that place, it’s incredible. Whatever our country or our government has done since then, it was a pretty amazing thing we started off with.

My Everyday Magic:

~My best friend got hitched!! The wedding was wonderful and your Flirty Fairy was out in FULL FORCE!

~Getting to hang out with many people I love, all in one place.

~Feeling relief now that it’s all over!

~My Sweetie lookin’ damn sexy in a suit

~Spending the day today with my other bestie visiting from England!

What’s your Everyday Magic this week?? Love you!!

Where are you, Sunshine??

Hello Fairy Friends! I missed you last week – I was working with a new mama and she kept me at her house for over NINETEEN HOURS!! Poor thing – I was so glad I was able to help her, though. How was your week?

I need to do some EMPOWERING MYSELF this week – really realizing my worth and how I deserve to be treated. Let’s all take stock of an area where we’re not empowered and get ourselves there! I’d also love to hear stories of how you’ve empowered yourself in the past. Let’s all be like She-Ra, Princess of Power!!! (Pssst… I love the process of Segment Intending for empowering and tough conversations!)

MEM:

~All of my clients being AMAZING and so appreciative of my help!

~Holding down the whole business next week as my mentor goes on vacation… I can do it!

~Spending lots of time with my sweetie and our friends

~Making yummy cookies for my dear friend’s birthday and surprising her with them!

~Getting two nights in a row of fabulous SLEEP!

~Making connections with some awesome doulas and learning so much!

~Getting excited about our new apartment and looking at all the delicious possibilities!

~My Sweetie having an interview on Friday – wish him luck!!

What’s YOUR magic today?? Love you all!

“Dare Yourself” Magic!

I did it! I completed the 5K I dared myself to do ~ and I had a GREAT time! I was able to run the whole race, it was sunny, and warm(ish), and I had family and friends cheering me on! I felt GREAT all day yesterday for completing something that really stretched my comfort zone. And NOW I’m ready for another dare! What shall it be, what shall it be?

Stretch your comfort zone and dare yourself to do something scary and exciting ~ you’ll feel AWESOME afterwards!

My Everyday Magic

* Having my nervousness go away as soon as I was at the starting line!

* My 7 year old friend, Loretta, who was the youngest one in the 5k race! (She’s in the 2nd picture and she’s our very own El’s daughter!).

* The FINISH LINE!

* Going out for pancakes after the race with our friends!

* A nice hot shower when I got home!

* A nice long nap after my shower!

* Homemade pizza!

* My little boys being inspired and putting on race shirts (mine from yesterday and one of Graeme’s bike race shirts) and running their own races in our yard!

* My little 3 year old telling me before my race “Mama, I love you running. And baby loves you running too.” Awwwwww……..so precious!

* Thin mints!

* Sleep! Well-earned sleep!!!!

* Knowing I’ll find something else to motivate me ~ a new dare and a new goal. I’ll keep you posted!

What’s making your MAGIC today? I love you!

The Sparkle Fairy!

“Dare Yourself” Magic!

The day after I posted the first “Dare Yourself” magic (found HERE) I came up with two dares that scared the hell out of myself. Here is the quote: * Deciding on 2 dares that scare me ~ entering into my first road race (my 5 year old has expressed interest, so I thought it would be fun to do together) and wearing a bikini next summer (I haven’t worn one since before kidlets and it truly does scare the crap out of me!). Thankfully I don’t have to do either one of these dares until next spring and summer!

Well! That was last October and here we are bordering on Spring! I didn’t know when I dared myself to do these things, I’d be pregnant at the time…but I’m not using that as an excuse to ditch out! Last week I signed up for my first 5K road race! It’s on April 2nd and it’s right in my back-yard. I’m about to go out for my 3rd training run and it’s been very exciting having a goal. And I have to truly honor myself and my body ~ stopping when I need to (which my ego would NEVER let me do years ago when I was an avid runner) because I’m pregnant and that comes FIRST. The race is in three weeks and I’m giddy with fulfilling this promise to myself! And the bikini? Luckily, I have a couple of more months to get the courage up for THAT!

* I’m also (inspired by our own Rainbow Faery) daring myself to GIVE UP COMPLAINING! I’m much, MUCH better than I used to be, but I just caught myself complaining that I have to make 3 separate breakfasts every morning and how exhausting it is…especially when it’s followed by “Breakfast #2″ shortly thereafter for my very hungry, growing boys! I’ve been complaining SO MUCH lately with how much I have to feed them, and I really don’t want to do that. They’re honoring their bodies and I want to honor my role in caring for my family. Wish me LUCK!!!!

What can you DARE yourself to do?

My Everyday Magic

* My very supportive and loving husband. He’s so wonderful and I’m so, so blessed!

* Taking it very easy yesterday when my body was asking for a down-day.

* Feeling ready and raring to go this morning!

* Watching the movie “Morning Glory” last night ~ which I went into with very low expectations and ended up enjoying it!

* A friend of mine recently said “I don’t HAVE to work that hard to make my life work,” and I think it’s just brilliant. I keep reminding myself of this (over and over and over and over).

* Daring myself to be my magnificent self!!!!

What magnificence and magic do you have to share? I love you!

Catching beads!

Dudes, Mardi Gras is my new LIFESTYLE. You just do whatever feels good, all the time! It’s the costume-y fun of Halloween, only better weather, more alcohol, and your costume doesn’t have to make sense! Bunny ears, hot pants, and gold lame leggings? You’re awesome! Your Flirty Fairy is wearing a pink tutu, pink boa, fishnets, bird-print Converse, and of course, lots of beads! And my wings

The “true meaning” of Mardi Gras, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in the Catholic tradition, is to get rid of all your “sinful” sugar, alcohol, lard, etc, by baking decadent goodies and gettin’ your drink on before the start of the austere Lent. I say, Lent or no Lent, there is something fantastic about just going ALL OUT. Just wearing, doing, eating, whatever you want!

So I say we ALL celebrate Mardi Gras this week by letting go of guilt and doing something absolutely decadent for ourselves! What are YOU going to do?

My Everyday Mardi Gras Magic:

~Eating DELICIOUS New Orleans food – shrimp and grits, sliders, anything I eat, is amazing.

~Meeting tons of awesome people, mostly gay guys, who are just so super fun!

~Having a great time with my sister and best friend!

~Catching lots of beads!!

~Lovin’ my Sweetie

~ My girl – melted me this week with a “I wub you, Denon!”

Love and fun to ALL this week!!

The Sparkle Fairy Family!

“Dare Yourself” Magic!

Today’s post is inspired by another post in a wonderful blog that’s written by our very own Sam ~ a My Everyday Magic regular. You HAVE to watch the video linked in her blog-post ~ it made her teary, and it made me teary as well (each of the 3 times I watched it). It’s only 90 seconds long and totally beautiful.

The gist is: there are things we are all afraid of doing and that fear can often times limit us. The video and Sam’s post encourages us to face the fears and walk DIRECTLY into them. When we do that we will find that there was nothing to fear in the first place. So today, DARE YOURSELF to do something you’ve been wanting to do, but haven’t done because you’ve been too afraid….and then watch yourself FLY!!!

My Everyday Magic

* Another unplugged morning with my kidlets ~ which is why this post is getting out so late!

* Two unplugged mornings in a row! I thought that giving up morning TV would be the hardest thing (I dared myself to try!) but we’ve had 2 wonderfully quiet mornings full of crafts and playing…with very little involvement from myself!

* Playing cards at night with our 5 year old, which is eliminating another 1/2 hour or more of TV!

* Planning all the weeks dinners ~ a definite FIRST for me!

* Daring myself to embrace my Mastery as a Mother! (This may be easy for some, but it hasn’t been for me…until NOW!)

* Daring to have intimate conversations with my beloved about intimate topics ~ and it’s been life-changing!

* Daring myself to strip off my self-perceived-limiters because they DON’T SERVE ME ANYMORE!!

* Realizing that’s it’s more difficult for me to be daring at home than out in the world….and walking right through it anyway and discovering I can fly!!!!

What are you daring yourself to do? Post in comments below. I love you!