What made you happy today?

I'm a Bowen therapist, and today I went to treat a client's elderly dog who I've been treating for about the past 2 months or so. This dog was dumped and found wondering the streets for a few days, age around 12years old, having suspected multiple litters over her years. My client adopted her from a rescue center 5 months ago, and as she really benefits from Bowen herself, she decided to get some for her dog too, to help her mobility and aches and pains.
This gorgeous girl is fearful of everyone, and only lets her two owners touch her. Until today :-) At previous sessions she's tried to avoid me, and only let me do a small amount of work on her while she was being cuddled by her owner, and with no eye contact from me, and with me turned away from her. Today though, she allowed me to stroke her, rub her tummy, allowed eye contact with me, and then melted under my hands, completely relaxing and almost asking me to give her Bowen! It was so beautiful for her owner to see, and I felt really touched and honoured that this beautiful, fearful dog allowed me to work on her, and enjoyed it so much 🥰 I also gave her other lovely rescue dog a treatment too, but he's always very pleased to see me and paws me to give him more Bowen! 🤣
I came away from there so happy 😊
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Yesterday I taught a maths lesson that I taught left me in tears and feeling angry/frustrated/disappointed with myself. Today I was able to take on some of the things mentioned and did a much better job. I did reading then comprehension. Still some little things to work on of course.

I also did a session in the afternoon about Remembrance day. The children then made poppies and I had everyone come to the front and show them. Some children were shy so I did it for them.

Tomorrow is my usual afternoon quiz. And I found a short intro I can include, as well as a timer ending with the woodpecker sound 😄 I’ll be talking to them about Diwali followed by some colouring. I’m also taking a small group out for maths in the morning.
 
RedLoredAmazon said:
@hannahs26 what is Bowen? I haven't heard about it before.
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Hi, it's a soft tissue release therapy, which helps to shift the body from a fight and flight mode into a rest and recovery mode. It removes tension from the soft tissue through small moves, which then helps the body to realign itself into a more healthy structure. It's great for a whole heap of aches and pains and relaxation :-) It's extremely gently, but has similar affects to chiropractic and osteopathy work, but without the manipulation. Great for humans, but also used for dogs and horses (and my guinea pigs too... hahah).
 
Oh you have red squirrels? How lovely!

Nearly broke myself constructing raised bed in school veg garden out of (semi-rotten!) sleepers and other lumps of incredibly heavy wood - but I feel so proud! We don't exactly have a budget and I'm a volunteer but this has been hanging over me for ages as we're on the promise of donated blueberry plants from lovely local garden centre. Also managed to get donated compost and donated pine mulch from 2 other wonderful people/companies so kids will hopefully be picking blueberries next year!

And my mum won £25 on the premium bonds she was going to cash in last month because it's been 20 years without a sniff of a prize but luckily we couldn't figure out how to do it! :xd: Good old Ernie - it's made her day.

And George's pee sample came back from the vets with a clean bill of health despite an alarming array of colours recently. He had to sit in the washing-up bowl for 40 minutes before he produced but hopefully he's not too traumatised (I've never made a lettuce leaf last so long!) and we had lovely lap-time today 💕
 
Managed to get out for a walk between Zoom meetings today.
I feel so fortunate to live a short walk from some stunning scenery- very good for the soul
 

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It was actually late yesterday but still happy about it now. My boss emailed to confirm that after taking annual and accrued bank holidays my return date is now 10th May. On top of that I was initially told I couldn't return to my job role because it needed full time but they are now happy for me to return to the same job role part time. I will be doing 18-20 hours a week over 3 days and my pay restarts from beginning of March wooooo!

On top of that project kitchen diner is coming along well. Week one is done and we've had the wall removed, electrics moved, and plastering done. Electrician is here at the moment doing the lights. Floor tiling starts next week
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I watched Masked Singer last night and I just loved watching the Snow Owls perform! They sang "The Prayer" and that is the song that I needed to hear right now; I had to re-watch the performance on YouTube.
 
I haven't had a haircut in a while. My skin is still going off the deep end and I have lesions covering about 90% of my scalp. I need to use topical steroids and medicated shampoos that would normally dry hair out - but second puberty means my hair is naturally greasy, so it balances out :))

I mean I still desperately need a haircut but til then:

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Lap time with nervous George (💕) only lasted 15 minutes because he turned and persisted in tried to climb vertically up my chest. What was going on? He normally sits for an hour or more before doing little circles and nibbling me because his bladder is full. I suddenly realised that's how I carry him - sort of vertically - and he was trying to assume the position and hint that he wanted to be put back. Oh George - we're communicating! ☺

(I was late - 5.15 instead of 3.00 ish - and I think he was all like, "you've missed the boat love... it's teatime!"
 
Last week Elvis hopped up onto my leg and sat there for maybe 5 minutes while I fed him lettuce. It was really special because Elvis doesn't like to be touched so for him to chose to sit on me was amazing. He's done it a few times now 😃😃

And when I gave Eddie and Elvis their veg yesterday, Eddie did a little happy purr when I offered him some broccoli. It was as if he was saying thank you mummy 🥰
 
Free Ranger said:
Lap time with nervous George (💕) only lasted 15 minutes because he turned and persisted in tried to climb vertically up my chest. What was going on? He normally sits for an hour or more before doing little circles and nibbling me because his bladder is full. I suddenly realised that's how I carry him - sort of vertically - and he was trying to assume the position and hint that he wanted to be put back. Oh George - we're communicating! ☺

(I was late - 5.15 instead of 3.00 ish - and I think he was all like, "you've missed the boat love... it's teatime!"
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I love all the different ways they have of letting you know they need back to the cage. All of mine have had different ways except Jake, because Jake would prefer to pee on the humans instead. It wasn't his fault we weren't mind readers!
 
Not sure where to put this one... I was at my parent's house yesterday and I kept hearing a guinea pig wheeking. No one else heard it; I did try to see if it was a door or a springy ride on toy, but not it wasn't. My mom claimed that she didn't have any hiding around the house.

Today I saw that the local rescue had a piggy that looks similar to the first guinea pig we had when I was younger. I cried when I saw that piggy; I didn't realize I missed Sweet Pea so much. It's not the best picture of her, but she was such a wonderful piggy.

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Swissgreys said:
I got a text message from my daughter who is at boarding school.
'Mummy please send toothpaste and biscuits'.

I am choosing to be happy about the toothpaste part :))
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I used to go to boarding school for a while and 'tuck', biscuits and chocolate care parcels in my case, were an absolute necessity. I didn't get them often (my family was abroad and they didn't have the vital dark chocolate digestives there).

Glad she realises that she needs to look after her teeth after all those biscuits!
 
Wheeksers said:
Mama Caribou and her babies are still healthy, strong, and being ADORABLE - They survived the first 48 hours! <3

I'm so happy to be an unexpected Grandma <3 Wow. I feel old now haha!

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You should have given a cuteness warning ⚠️ ❤. Those mini piggies are absolutely adorable. Enjoy being grandma and take (and post) lots of photos as they grow up so quickly.
 
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