I just spent week at a beautiful cottage with my sister. My sister had the idea last year that we should do something special to celebrate our special birthdays this spring. I had my birthday a few weeks ago and her's is next week, so we picked a week in between each of our birthdays to celebrate. We had not spent seven days in a row together since we were young girls and still lived at home... … [Read more...]
If I was talking pregnancy here, then this baby would be due. But I'm not, instead I'm talking about the amount of time that has passed since I pressed the button that would make my website (blog) go live at the end of April 2012. I had never been so nervous in my life. The 6 months leading up to that day I spent an incredible amount of time and energy figuring out how I would even do it. I … [Read more...]
Grab an eggnog and read at your own pace! Welcome to the December Reflections blog post circle. This is our monthly blog circle, and I welcome you to our last one of the year. Once you are done reading my post, I hope you will go and visit Becky Cavender's site that I have provided you with a link at the bottom of my post. I am about to share with you a year of my life… 2012! One word can … [Read more...]
Enjoy a feast of Canadian fall colours that I photographed for you these last few weeks. … [Read more...]
Last weekend we celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary, my husband suggested that we get away for the weekend. So we headed off to Picton area and Sandbanks Provincial Park on Lake Ontario. The last time we were there was with our children when they were about 10 and 12... it's been over a decade since our last time there. On Friday we decided to tour around a bit to become familiar with the … [Read more...]
In this blog post you will find a visual of the things I saw last week while I was away at my retreat. What was to be a 5 day retreat turned into a 7 day get-away. On Thursday evening my husband came down after work instead of driving home only to get up early Friday morning (his day off) to come and pick me up where I was staying. That evening we spoke with the kids and our daughter told us that … [Read more...]
Last weekend I was excited, the time had arrived for my 5-day retreat. The excitement quickly dissipated though as anxiety started creeping in. I wasn’t anxious about leaving for 5 days or of leaving my family behind at home, and I certainly wasn’t afraid of being by myself. It took me a little while to figure it out, the anxiety I was feeling was about the amount of ‘stuff’ I seemed to … [Read more...]
Have you ever gone ahead and done something totally out of your comfort zone and avoided giving it too much thought so as not to talk yourself out of it? I kind of did just that yesterday. My day started out as usual until I received a Facebook message from a cousin that I had not seen in quite a while, inviting my husband and I to join them this weekend on a spur-of-the moment … [Read more...]
