November 13, 2017
My journey and the lotus
Sometimes the universe just brings it all together. Yesterday I went and got a new tattoo. I LOVE IT. I haven’t even showed my husband it yet (I might be nervous of his judgement – I can own that). The tattoo is of a lotus with the word “Journey” incorporated. The lotus has two meanings for me: “With its roots based in mud, it submerges every night into murky river water, and—undeterred by its dirty
November 11, 2017
Gratitude
This post is hard to write. Mostly because I’m afraid of what you’re going to think. I think you’re going to think that I’m bragging or wanting everyone to know how great my life is. That’s not it at all. I think what I want you to know is that it’s just hit me, that I do have an incredible life. I’ve known it all along, but the lightbulb went off and has shifted my
November 2, 2017
Gremlins…
Day 17 of sharing 30 days of vulnerability in order to CRUSH judgement. This one is harder to post I’m noticing… Today was a harder day. Today the negative self talk won. I started out feeling really great! I went to training for work and was ready to learn, absorb and bring back what I learned to my job. As the day progressed, things people said started landing not so well for me. One thing
October 30, 2017
261 days
Since Jaedyn graduated I’ve been counting down the lasts… last band performance, last musical, last award ceremony, last day of school… I cried my way through most of these events. Now: we’re coming home after our trip (or so we think) but I can’t help but think of what we won’t be doing next year. We won’t be having the halloween party at the Fairbanks. We won’t be celebrating Luc’s birthday at our neighbours house
October 29, 2017
Batman
Yesterday we went to a Halloween event at Victor Brodeur School. Vivi wanted to dress up and didn’t want to do it alone so she asked her papa if he would put on his Batman costume and accompany her (side note: my costume was dirty or I totally would have too). He, of course, said “Yes”. Off we went to the event and then we decided to go for a walk at Fleming Beach after.