Day 13 of 365 days Family Therapy Williams/Bradfort families Network

Emelie started the meeting with her own music a Pussycat Dolls CD playing "Halo" one of her favorite songs. She started putting more and more activity stuff out in the room and out in the table. Besides all of the molding clay and affirmation cards, the hitting clown, the growing slowly yet surely sunflowers and there window totem animals, and the cookie jar full of great yummy cookies. She now added , also to all of the drawings and paintings on the "Wall of Healing" a croquet set for those interested in a little non competitive lighthearted game. Also she laid out a bag full of large white candles, for them to decorate with paint and jewels a meditation candle of there own. Then six glue guns and five bags of glue sticks. To glue the bags full of little jewels to the candles. Then she unloaded a bag full of flat pieces of wood and six wood burning tools, each tool has six tips and a handy stand, and is able to cut elegant, lacy images into the wood, or whatever else you wish with the different tip attachments. Then she laid six one gallon containers, clear enough to see completely through them, except for the metal lid rim, and thin metal handle, shaped just like a paint bucket. Then the five bags of different ideas, for each person to decorate his or hers own bucket. In which you were to stuff full of all of your bad, sad, hurt,angry, or fearful feelings and emotions. Then they could take one out each day, read it to yourself or someone else if you want to, then watch as it burns away forever into the fire place, never to return. After 15 minutes she changed the music, to the Frey "How to save a Life" one of Aiden's CD'S. They all looked at the table, and sat down each choosing the one activity they would start working on for today. Well Dad and Grandpa Alan both being retired from carpentry and as a home inspector. They choose to burn onto the slabs of wood, as did Bella. Mom and Emelie, and even Aiden all choose to decorate there meditation candles, and if there was time to start in on the affirmation pails. Emelie switched CD's to Donna Summers "Love to Love You Baby" one of Janie's music. As they burned artful scenes onto wood, and hot glue gunned jewels into painted designs on the meditation candles. They also sipped more of Winnie's good apple cider. Grandpa Alan as usual whispered something funny to Bella, Bella told Aiden, Aiden told Janie, who told Emelie, then they were all laughing about it as they decorated and listened to now Thomas's Foreigner CD "That Was Yesterday". Grandpa Alan had said, so this is what it is like to be part of a sewing circle! As they were all finishing there projects, the apple cider, and the no-bake cookies, they cleaned up there messes, and put there finished projects on a multi-leveled rolling table Emelie had brought into the room for the projects. They looked good enough Grandpa Alan had said, making them all laugh a bit again. He really just loved to tease anybody, especially if he could pick some kind of argument with them, it just somehow made him feel more alive, more a part of things happening around him. Were Thomas seemed most of the time more passive aggresive, with a very big heart, yet very gaurded not to let others take advantage of it, since years past his kindness has been taken as a weakness. Far from it, it's part of his strength! They carved a very big and beautiful home built on a hill side, and a small home with a massive flower and vegitable garden. Then one filled with just symbols of lace and elegant lettering, they all knew was Bella's. Aiden painted eternity symbols in bright blue all over the white candle, which he then added white and teal and silver jewels to. Janie painted her candle with big bright yellow flowers all over and more different shades of yellow jewels, Emelie painted hers with light peach and dusty blue little flowers everywhere with lots of silver and gold gems. Aiden was the only one to finish his affirmation pail completely completely covered in bright blue papers with more eternity symbols everywhere. Emelie and Janie sat there pails aside to finish during another meeting. They closed this meeting listening to Grandpa Alan's Gene Autry CD "Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails." End of Day 13