Today I’m Celebrating…
Ok, so I think, and research shows, that one of the best ways to survive adversity is through gratitude. Looking for that “silver-lining” even when things feel overwhelming, bleak or downright impossible. Finding some perspective when everything feels confusing and out of control will do me some good…
October 12, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating…That I’m alive…
October 11, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… that Mansell is all fired up about his music studies – he just had a great lesson!
October 10, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating…it’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada! The kids were a bit miffed that they had to go to school today when it’s a day off for everyone up north!!
October 9, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… Thai food and orchids!!! Ora held her annual Thai buffet fundraiser for San Fernando this afternoon. It’s unfortunate that it poured rain but everyone was warmed by the amazing food. Despite the rain, many of us sat outside to enjoy the beautiful garden and hundreds of orchids that are beginning to bloom in the yard.
October 8, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… coffee and a good book and my cat asleep on my lap on a rainy Saturday morning!
October 7, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… that it is Friday and we made it through another week! 🙂
October 6, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating…that Hudson said he enjoyed Spanish class today! That’s a first…
October 5, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… that one of my creative heroes, Hawksley Workman, has released a children’s book based on his Christmas album (one of my favourites!). He just made my search for our annual Christmas book gift for the kids very easy. The book, like the album, is called “Almost a Full Moon”.
October 4, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating…an unexpected day with Aaron! Another hiccup with the immigration process for me (I have to prove that I am who I say I am…again…) afforded us a day to visit the Canadian Embassy to try again to sort this out. A frustration made less because of the company I got to keep today!
October 3, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… the beginning of learning Christmas Carols! The kids started learning carols today – “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” and “Jingle Bells”… The rule at our house is no listening to Christmas music recordings til December 1st, but that can’t apply to learning them for caroling at Christmas! (a clever and necessary way of getting around our “rule” to extend the already too short Christmas music season!) When I was singing in Lyrica choir we always spent the whole fall preparing for our Christmas show! Just loved that.
October 2, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… the big heart of our lovely girl… this was the message we woke to, letter tiles she arranged on the floor in our room…
October 1, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating…creativity!! Just loved this art we saw at the mall today – we were out searching for a scale model that Caleigh needs for a math project. Was so struck by this “painting”… as I got closer to admire some more, I realized that it was created using various coloured plastic bottle caps… brilliant!!
September 30, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… that I didn’t have to drive anywhere today!! The kids had a day off school so we didn’t go anywhere – was just awesome!!
September 29, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… that Hudson found his glasses!!! 👓
September 28, 2016
Today I’m celebrating… my cat! This makes me chuckle because one year I tried this gratitude journal with my students, and each day asked them to think of something they were grateful for and “my cat” was the most common response, despite my best efforts to get them to think of a different idea daily. Not sure if they knew I was the cat lady that I am, but I can completely understand being thankful for cats everyday!! Mine even helps me blog!
And makes funny faces…
September 27, 2016
Today I’m Celebrating… conquering the cookie at high altitude!!! These are the first cookies I’ve made in nearly a year that actually LOOK like COOKIES!!! Woohoo!!!
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