Jivamukti Yoga Charleston
Hello starlight!
I just got back from a POWERFUL weekend of personal transformation and rocket growth. If you live in South Carolina please check out the new Jivamukti in Charleston some time, and if you live or visit in NYC, well then you have to go to their studio downtown -your mind will explode and your life will change. I started practicing yoga at Jivamukti in 1992. Back then I was a dancer with lots of injuries and few solutions. A friend suggested I try yoga. Yoga??? Hmmm. I wanted something hardcore, not gentle stretching for aging hippies. My only exposure to anything like yoga at the time was a video and a book my mom had. To be honest, it seemed like a snooze fest. But I trusted my friend and reluctantly trucked down to the east village. What happened next planted the seeds for the self-designed healing plan I would create 11 years later (when cancer came).
Jivamukti yoga is a form Hatha yoga. It physically challenges you to your core, but what’s different about this form of yoga is that David Life and Sharon Gannon (the founders) created a modern practice rooted in the ancient wisdom found in the Upanishads, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. They believe that liberation is possible in THIS lifetime. But how?
Many of you know that yoga means to yoke, union with the divine. Think about the old black & white images of Oxen being yoked together. They are connected, walking in the same direction, however there is still space between them. In essence this is what a good marriage is: a union, commitment and understanding that we are independent souls, and though we move forward together we must allow space for growth between us on our unique journey.
David and Sharon teach that to yoke our individual experiences as small selves with the source of our being (god, Jesus, Buddha, Elvis, cosmic consciousness -whatever floats YOUR boat) is the ticket to overcoming our illusion of separateness from that source. Wow! Think about it, what if we really are all connected, all of us? If we truly digest and understand the repercussions of “otherness,” then maybe we can understand the very essence of healing the planet and ourselves.
Kick-ass, uplifting music, meditation, chanting, scripture and real-deal talks about vegetarianism, the environment, politics etc.: this is what ya get at a Jivamukti class. I loved it from day one. My mat became my church.
Fast forward to nearly 5 years ago (this Thursday) when I was diagnosed with cancer and told there was no treatment. I knew in that moment that cancer would be my guru, my teacher and that those little and big tumors were asking me to change my life. The teachings of yoga held the first clue and pointed me in the right direction. The part equals the whole. Return to nature. Why are the asanas named after animals, the sun, and the moon? To remind us of nature, the earth source, is the cord that connects to the higher source. I think we can agree that the destruction of our bodies and the planet are the results of our society wandering astray (food, environmental pollution, war, hate, slavery, violence, murder and on and sadly on). These collective wanderings alter us, to me that’s cancer. When I lose sight of my path, I get scared and make foolish or self centered decisions. But when I come back to the mat and to my own personal tenets, I am reminded that the only way to achieve true power is through kindness.
Patanjali says that through continuous practice of kindness, strength is attained. That’s what we’re doing here in this little Crazy Sexy Community. We are awakening to the fact that we can’t return to health by forcing, taking, and cursing, or by controlling the lives of others. We are mama earth’s Mini Me. As the green earth turns brown, so do the precious insides and organs of the peoples (furry and feathered too) who walk and fly the surface.
After this great weekend (12 hours of yoga in 2 days – ps: Epsom salt is my best friend) I am newly inspired to re-commit to building a better, sustainable me. I’m vowing to remove the NEXT layer of obstacles from my life so that regeneration, clarity, peace, and vibrancy can flow and glow in my crazy sexy temple.
Healing, true healing is a remembering. We get out of our way and let the sun in. We move, love, acknowledge, accept AND revolt. We fill our bodies with the fuel (physical, mental and spiritual) needed to shake off the barnacles and remove the darkness. Cancer isn’t your fault (I’ve said this many times, in many posts), but now that it’s here we have this great opportunity to learn powerful tools for this life and the next. We have a chance to heal and maybe even cure. But even if the cure part doesn’t happen, we can still be liberated. Beautifully, soulfully liberated.
No dis-ease can thrive when we are at-ease. So my goal is to carve that path, create my owners manuals and do unto others, as I would want done to me.
There is only one way to really do that folks.
Dismantle the present culture and then rebuild it.
Peace and warrior pose,
Kris
Ps. See you on the mat.
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Sweet Jennifer,
A quick note of love before I head upstairs to bed. It’s 2:30am here on the East Coast. Just think of how many prayers are being sent out to you and your FIL at all hours of the day and night from your cs family. I hope you feel our arms wrapped tightly around you. Healing, liberation, yoking…such timely words from our gorgeous cowgirl leader.
Lean on us.
Sandra
Jennifer:
Hugs to you…thinking of you…
xoxo
dr.sue:
Thanks so much for the info, I appreciate you taking the time to look all that up for me. I was looking for doctor who does injections (into joints) and am gathering info to see what’s developed in the last year. I think I’ll wait.
Mariely:
I hope you never give up, and never stop asking for solutions to your situation. I hope you can take Kris’s attitude and simply don’t allow that type of “non sense” into your reality.
There are other answer’s out there for you to get well, just waiting to be discovered (by You). Keep breathing… and keep logging in here
sincerely,
Clint
Grendle! whhooopppeee!!!!! THat is wonderful news! So encouraging and inspiring!
Kris, THanks. I have done brikram yoga before and have intended to get down there and begin again. Have the OK from my doc and lot of websites that say hot yoga is great for chemo patients. I am psyched.
it seems that that is on of the things I am missing in my arsenal.
I am realizing that I am taking on too much and I am in the process of shedding some work. THis is not easy for a freelancer but must be done. You are helping me to see that.
Take care everyone!
I have been doing various yoga poses lately, though I’m ready to get into a class. I wish they weren’t so expensive!! Thanks for encouraging us to change our lives by finding the meaning, our meaning — even if we don’t have cancer!
Barbara-
I completely understand the yoga-cost factor. Raising two kids, we are usually on a tight budget, and all the surplus ends up being spent on their ‘necessities.’ (Orthodontia, OY!)
But, tell everyone you know that you are looking for an inexpensive class. One will turn up.
You are in school, correct? Can you take a class there? College is where I took my first class (as a PE class.)
I just got back into classes at the fitness center where I work. $10 a month, 1 or 2 classes a week. $1.25 per class?!?!
Seriously, keep looking. It took me a few years to find a class I could afford to keep going to (and it is less than a crappy cup of diner coffee!!!)
Peace.
Lisa
Mariely:
Watch & Wait.
As I mentioned, I’ve been digesting those words for 5 years, at first it was paralyzing, now I realize that we are ALL domesticated to watch & wait. Wait as your life slides by, do this, buy that, stay numb and for GOD SAKE do not break from the drone heard and WAKE UP.
Wellllll, at this Crazy Sexy House we disagree. While everyone else watches & waits WE get passionate. We get active. We start loving and stop holding. We heal and sometimes we even cure, but either way, we live full and complete lives. We work through the fear of a potentially shortened life and in doing so we soar higher than the average birdie.
There is more cancer between most people’s left ear and right ear and I don’t mean tumors.
Here you are at the beginning of a whole new world. This world is big and it has a beautiful view. Take your time to mourn the loss of your innocense and when you are ready roll up your sleeves and let’s play!
You are a light being. There are shadows in each of us (for me, my shadows manifest as 24 tumors making dark spots – aka beauty marks – on a scan image). Yet every day I flood them with sun light. You can too. No matter what happens to our bodies this adventure is very very long and very very fun.
I love you from my toes to my nose,
K
Hi Cory (FoodSciYogi),
I was just looking through your blog last night! What a wonderful resource. I would love to visit DC for a Jivamukti class. BTW-My spiritual name is Sundari (given to me through Sivananda yoga teacher training, but my regular name is Corinne:)) I hope to meet you when I stop by for a class.
Sundari (aka Corinne)
You know how you wake up in the morning, and you have to focus and think, OK, what do I have to do today? Oh yeah, help my FIL heal cancer. That’s all. Try to make the right decisions and say the right things. Don’t cry in front of him, or will that make him think I don’t care? Cry then, no then he’ll get sad too. Who am I kidding, I have no control over my emotions. Push the diet thing some more, it’s not too late, he can still beat this. No don’t push, he only has a little time left in this world, so let him eat cake. Stop trying to control fate. Don’t just let this happen. What is the right thing to do? I can love him. I know that. It’s the everything else that is driving me nuts. I can’t stand to see him sucking down one more chocolate milk, or one more bowl of ice cream. His doctor told my husband yesterday that he was one of only a few that they have seen, that hasn’t lost weight on chemo. He eats sugar the way ya’ll eat veggies. Knowing that sugar is cancer’s most favorite food in the world, and watching him eat it is like torture. You should see the hospitl menu. There is no way he is going to find nutrition there. They will not be putting his knee back in. He will not walk again. So excersise is out. So what can you do when you think you know how to help heal, but the message falls on deaf ears? Pray. I don’t know anything else to do. I pray that hospitals learn how to fead not just cancer patients, but all patients. His lunch yesterday consisted of a plate full of fruit with cottage cheese and chicken salad. A peach cobbler, Chocolate milk, ice cream and coffee. Great. Let’s give the cancer some of it’s favorite food to grow, and then we’ll give the patient some really toxic drugs to keep the cancer from growing. I appreciate all your kind words. 6 months ago I would have fallen into a deep depression, but you all have given me a soft place to fall. Writing helps a lot. Especially here.
Callie, I prayed the rosary last night too. We were together in spirit. Thank you for always making me laugh.
Jennifer
Mariely,
Those were the first words out of my surgeon’s mouth too: incurable. Treatable for a while, but that’s the best I could do…that’s all she said. No support, no “but here’s what you can do.”
And like you, Kris’s book came out just in the knick of time!
Stick with us and this lifestyle and we’ll all survive together! You’ve already made the right move by saying “What am i supposed to do sit around?” We’re right with ya!
to all the people that received postive scans this week, I’m cheering with you! I’m so happy for you guys.
For those that are awaiting or haven’t received positive news, don’t lose sight of your power. Like Kris said, you can control what you eat and think and those two things have changed my life. The fact that you are here is proof that you aren’t the type to sit around and wait. Sit and wait. God I really don’t like those two words.
Jennifer
Hello all,
I met Kris Carr at the Jivamukti Yoga Charleston opening
ceremonies. I had the privilege of talking to her for a few
moments. During our short chat, she suggested I check out the
“Crazy Sexy Cancer” web site. While I am certain that Ms. Carr
could not possibly care less whether I “approve” or not, I must
say that I am impressed and, yes, inspired, by the general content and message of the site. I commend Ms. Carr for putting a very positive spin on what many would consider a very “negative”
diagnosis.
I find many things about this site and all the people who contribute to it, very spiritually stimulating and uplifting.
And now a comment about the posting:
Being merely a beginner yoga student, I have only begun to scratch the surface of the postitive things that come from yoga. I can, however definitely say that I agree with the spirit of the message: Be positive and live positively and with compassion! This is the attitude that I hope to instill in my own life and in those wonderful beings with whom I am privileged to work.
Thanks again to Ms. Carr for having me check out the website.
Om Shanti to all and keep healing!
Jay
Charleston, SC
Mariely
We here at CSC call it The Chronic….watch and wait…Kris is a chronic babe too…as am I and Michelle J’s mom…I am sure there are others…
It is also know as watch and worry…I prefer to heal and live.two much more positive actions. Take the reins cowgirl, you are in the healing rodeo! We are all here rooting for you.
love and good thoughts
deb
Jennifer/Goony
Get Anatomy of Hope…by Jerome Groopman…I know I said this before but maybe this can be our next book we all read. It will help you so much with your FIL and help you too.
love
debbie
Jennifer:
Am glad your letting it all out girl, hopefully letting go/and letting God.
Your Father in law feels alone in all this, hence the self medicating with all the food & sweets, etc….
Why not climb aboard with him, and give him some company…. misery Loves company, right ? Buy him all the things he likes (chocolate milk, ice cream, etc…) and go with him on this….(I know, your thinking I’m crazy, right ?)
It’s only then that he might change his eating habits onto a healthier path, if it’s possible at all.
You’ve tried every other option Jennifer, except giving IN to his cravings….. some reverse Psychology could be in order her….no ?
Just a thought . . .
:-)
sincerely,
Clint
Dear hearts,
It’s a balmy 26 degrees. I’m wistfully dreaming of summer so I thought I’d share a poem by one of my favorite poets. Hope it inspires good thoughts! xx
THE SUMMER DAY
by Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Jennifer, I can relate to your feelings regarding your FIL and his diet. My dad is riddled with cancer and will most likely be gone within a year. I have tried to green up both my parents diets in the past few years to no avial. I have given them books to read, I bring over salads, veggies, showed them how to make green smoothies, and offered to buy them a juicer. Last week my dad said “I’m going to die and I’ll be eating and drinking whatever I want”.
Apparently he is content with his choices and I have to take comfort in knowing I tried my best.
Please don’t beat yourself up over this. The what IF’S deplete energy. Take a deep breath and realize that your FIL is very lucky to have someone like you in his life.
Extra hugs,
Joy
I gotta say Kris when I watched your blog I was in tears through half of it. Everything was so real and true. My treatment right now is waiting. Waiting for the ‘c’ to make the next move. The spots are too little for surgery and too slow growing for chemo. Isn’t Sarcoma so frustrating in that sense?
I think your documentary should come out on dvd. Lord knows I would watch it every day!
Congrats with the good news Grendle..how great =)
Apparently, Flavs do NOT improve your spelling…
Our dear Callie,
Everytime I read your messages I feel we are all folded into your arms and into your prayers.
Your remarks here and your incredible daily lenten devotionals have given me such a needed lift.
love and hugs,
Chris in Wyoming
To all:
If you have not visited The turning point which is Dancer’s blog, you must go now!! I command you.. well I strongly urge you.. read her canser story, it will blow you away what a strong courageous woman she is:http://theturningpoint-dancer.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-story-re-cancer.html
Dancer-wishing you all the best on your bmb tomorrow…stay focused on the good, out with the bad.
deb
Kris!
I am sort of a yoga virgin. Er…I guess technically you cant be ‘sort of’ a virgin but…..
So. Just a couple weeks ago I went to the gym and did a strength training class. It was awesome but….I could not walk down the stairs for 2 days. Seriously, my legs were destroyed! I guess I overdid it a bit. Well, after a few days of not moving I thought I would try out a yoga class. I was nervous because I had never done it before and I figured everyone else in the class was probably a pro. I am also sort of uncoordinated at times and didn’t want to do a face plant in front of the class. I loved it though!!!! It was so amazing. Amazing is the only word for it! I talked to the instructor a while after class. I really want to get more involved and learn more about yoga but there is so much info out there! Holy cow! I don’t know where to start looking……but I LOVE it. Its so cool how it engages your mind, body and spirit. I am on a bit of a hiatus from working out now so it will be a while till I can get back on the mat. I, er… decided to go sledding and ended up tearing a ligament in my thumb. So now I have a huge cast up to my elbow and my thumb is casted so it looks like I am giving a thumbs up constantly. Ugh. So annoying…. I miss being able to grip things with my thumb. Turns out thumbs come in very handy. :)
I had a quick question. I saw a comment from a long while ago…Someone said that skim milk is bad for heart patients (me)….I didn’t ever know that so I did some looking around but couldn’t find what he was referring to. Just wondering if you knew…
Thanks!
Jess
Hi justme117 (Jess):
Congratulations on your arrival on being a NON Yoga virgin ! :-)
In reference to your question on ‘Skim Milk’, I had read this article way back on the ‘Osteoporosis Industry’, and thought you might find the article interesting… below is an excerpt from that article:
THE OSTEOPOROSIS INDUSTRY:
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Women are constantly bombarded with the message that the war on bone loss must include calcium supplements and a daily consumption of calcium-rich foods, primarily dairy products.
Doctors strongly recommend long-term use of (synthetic) estrogen to the post-menopausal woman, and, if additional help is required, suggest the use of bone-building drugs like Fosamax. So, armed with this powerful arsenal, a woman is assured that she will walk tall and fracture-free through the latter part of her life. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.
Osteoporosis has spawned a phenomenal growth industry. The sale of just one estrogen drug, Premarin, grossed US$940 million worldwide in 1996.
The US dairy industry is thriving with its annual US$20 billion of revenue. And sale of calcium supplements has spiraled upwards into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The osteoporosis industry has not only created a huge market for its wares; it has also been specifically designed to target women.
Obviously, the fear-mongering advertising campaign about osteoporosis as a ‘silent thief’, stalking women’s bones, has paid off. Unfortunately, unsuspecting women are unaware they are really being stalked by an unholy alliance of the pharmaceutical companies, the medical profession and dairy industry who have orchestrated one of the most successful and well-planned marketing maneuvers in history.
By distorting the facts, by manipulating the statistics and by withholding scientific research in the pursuit of profits, this powerful alliance has once again jeopardized lives by exposing women to an increased incidence of such illnesses as breast and ovarian cancer, strokes, liver and gall bladder disease, diabetes, heart disease, allergies, kidney stones and arthritis.
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The full article can be seen here.
or here:
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/
osteoporosis.html
Clint
“true power is through kindness” & “Healing, true healing is a remembering.” i love these parts…
warmly,
gem
goony~
I’m so sorry about your FIL …Your asking yourself all these questions that I’d be asking myself too, and did concerning other issues in my family- all the “IF’s” can just fry your brain, and screw you up, so just stop asking the “if’s” and just try to breath…right now, just take 5 deep breathes and in each breath just remember, and know,and remind yourself that YOU have done everything possible to YOUR ability to help him, and that you love him and that HE knows that. If there is anything that he knows for sure right now- it’s your love for him! I think that would be so so cool if you could bring him home with you, and if its your hearts desire to do so -you go girl! Talk to the docs (and don’t forget they tend to be discouraging, but sometimes supportive, and they will remind you of how much hard work it might be to bring him home- but), but hospitals have social workers etc. that can help you with the all the steps to get you help to do so, and whatever medical stuff that maybe needed at home, and whatever support that you may need, they are wonderful people who will try to do their best to help you bring him home.
As for yourself, try to live each day forward with no regrets and a clean conscience knowing that you would’ve moved heaven and earth to help him if it were possible… but If he wont accept your greens and juices and would rather have sugar- you cant force your will over his, he has a freewill, you can lead a horse to the water but can’t force him to drink… I don’t know if this will help you, but it sure helped me when my grandpa was dying- I also had alot of what “ifs”, and then these scriptures came to mind, the idea of destiny, and foreknowledge, about life and the timing of it, how long you get, fate etc…These brought great comfort to me- hope they will for you too :)
Psalm 39:2 I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, And my sorrow grew worse.
Psalm 39:3 My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:
Psalm 39:4 “LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.
Psalm 39:5 “Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.
Psalm 39:6 “Surely every man walks about as a phantom; Surely they make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.
Psalm 39:7 And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
Psalm 27:13 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
Psalm 27:14 Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 40:17 Since I am afflicted and needy, Let the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.
Psalm 40:11 You, O LORD, will not withhold Your compassion from me; Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.
Psalm 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; Make haste, O LORD, to help me.
Matthew 6:27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
On your ‘about me’ section in your profile you say your “I’m a worry wart! I obsess about things and over-annalize”
So if you got a bible around the house, please read Matthew chapter 6
or here’s a link-
http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/tools/printer-friendly.pl?book=Mat&chapter=6&translation=nas&x=12&y=10
and if you get time look up those psalms…. I can’t tell you how much the book of Psalms has impacted my life! I try to read them everyday, a psalm a day kinda thing…
You and your FIL and family, are in my prayers…
grendle~
I’m so happy for you and your good news!
Hi to all the new non-lurkers!! :)
Justme117~
bummer about your thumb- yikes…Isn’t it crazy how we take for granted a finger- lol, I once injured my ring finger playing volleyball and I couldn’t play my beloved guitar for 6 months!! man it sucked lol, a few times I have hurt my thumb too-and its a pain to not to be able to use it- its crazy how much longer it takes to do such simple tasks- hope you heal quickly :)
clint~
wow! that article was kick-butt! there is some insane info in there! hmmm now I have to to re-think taking my calcium supps for sure! do you take any calcium supps?
I’d really love to know how much calcium is in a 12oz glass of greens.
do you know if the calcium is in the fiber part or the juice part?
Hi Poopslinger :-)
I get my calcium from Sea Vegetables, and I don’t think I’m getting any from a supplement.
I might get a nutrition Alamanac and look up the properties of what you need to know… I doubt thought, that the calcium would be in the fibre.
good luck,
Clint
Wow, thanks so much for sharing about your yoga experience. I started doing yoga over a year ago, mostly because my chiropractor reccomended it. I went to classes last spring, but stopped because I don’t have the $$ right not to pay for it. Soon, very soon I’ll get back to class! I was taking my yoga class last spring before I went to my class at the university I’m attending & it really helped me refocus and let go of the day’s stress.
I’m seeking personal transformacion. Maybe I should try Jivamukti.
I think I’m incurable too, but the retreat seems funny.
Every morning elena takes us through our paces for 90 minutes of yoga before we hit the surf again. It’s my favourite moment of the day.
Gooney sweetie, I am so sorry about your FIL. You know you are so strong. I can feel it through your words and your decisions to give yourself so freely. That is a rare gift. I know you FIL has to be terrified and so are you but remember no one can tell the future. Just love one another. That is the best we can do. You know you both have a very special bond and I belive it was put there for a reason. What makes you relax love. Do you read, write journal.. pray.. pour your heart out… have you read tuesdays with morrie. Mitch Album wrote it and it will change your life. I think that as time goes by peace will settle in. And never stamp that date on him. He may outlive us all. Now that you may be taking him home you can make sure he has quality time. Duncan always swears he would rather have quality time then quantity.. when he first got sick he was in such pain and he couldn’t move from the neck down and he said he never wanted to live like that again. I hope you always feel like you can pour your heart out. We are here and we are breathing and praying for you. Maybe when you get home you can learn the family history, make memories, read together. Help your husband no lose those precious memories. You are such a gift. It is a hard road to be a caregiver but you live in love and it is worth every minute. I love you Jennifer. We all do. Hang in there. Have peace it is almost midnight here and from now until this ordeal is passes I will be praying the rosary for you and your hubby and FIL and kids.. so if you are awake we are two in spirit. So where two or more are gathered in my name so shall I be.. remember that from catochism. Hugs darling. Write me at basic if you need anything.
I cannot believe you all did 12 hours of yoga my body is screaming vulgar things at me for the one hour i have been doing a day. Funny how we all got on that renewal at the same weekend.
Debbie wrote the best article on basicmissions.com under basic nutrition.. it is fab. she got 165 hits today.. hurrah … I learned so much but I am also in mounring ..no more mushrooms and I thought someone was going to have to do cpr I have once a week a treat and have boiled peanuts… now I would have swore you would have to pry them out of my cold dead hands but I guess I will have an apple on friday and now I have lost my nuts.. oh.. that sounds funny sorry.. ha..like a little squrrial…running round. ha.. I am so tired I am loopy.. oh well I learned alot and I thought I was hardcore those things snuck in. It is great though. I am proud of her. Love you all Peas an carrots. Callie
February 12, 2008