One Step At A Time...

There is a legend that says Ernest Hemingway made a bet that he could make people cry with a six-word story. He won the bet with, For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never worn . I was reading a blog post this morning about this topic. I started thinking about what my 6 word story would be. Those 6 words that best describe me. Could I sum up my life in 6 words? I came up with this. Wife. Mother. Lover Of Creative Beauty. That is the basic summary of me. I am proud of my role as wife and mama. I love my husband and kids deeply and madly. I love to find the beauty in everything. I love to create beauty around me.  What is your 6 word story?      

Learning to love yourself is a very long journey. It is something every human needs to learn. We may not always be happy with how we look, how much we weigh, or hair color etc but we must always love ourselves. How can we learn to be positive in other areas of our lives, if all we are doing is tearing ourselves down and focus on the negatives? Each one of us deserve love, happiness and who better to find it in then yourself? If we start there and allow others to see us love ourselves be taking care of our bodies, souls and minds. who knows what could happen! I believe that until we learn to love ourselves, no one else can truly and deeply love us. We are each amazing in our own ways. We are not made to be a carbon copy of someone! We are made to be uniquely and authentically us! Show yourself some love today! 

So this year, I have been making a lot of changes in my own body, mind, and spirit. I have started changing my lifestyle where my health is concerned. I need to lose weight. Simply put. It is not something that I would like to do, it has become a need to do. I battled postpartum depression for over a year, I was on medication for it but it seemed like all that was happening was that I was having to up my dosage of it. It was helping but I was not feeling better about myself, my role at a wife and as a mother. There was something missing still. In February, I started out all on my own by cutting out mindless snacking at night. That is all I did. I lost 5 lbs in 3 wks from that alone. In March I started exercising everyday for a minimum of 20 mins. More weight and inches came off. In April, i changed my eating habits. More weight and inches gone. However, something still felt like it was missing. I did not have any external support. Adam did the best that he could but he was only one...

In this "info at your fingertips now" kind of world that we live in now, I find I have no patience. I have gotten used to things being done as soon as I want it to be. I can inform the whole world of anything in an instant. I can take a picture of my kids and show my family right then. Download a new favourite song right to my iPhone as soon as I hear it for the first time. I have become too used to not waiting for anything in life. I am finding that as a Mom of small children (almost 6 yrs. old, 4 yrs. old and 2.5 months) that I am expecting things to be done in the very moment when I ask them to be. Kids do not work like the Internet does. They do not follow a sequence of key strokes or finger taps. They have their own thoughts and feelings. I am learning that I need to work on my patience with my babies. They are my children and I want to them grow up with a patient and loving mom. I don't want their memories to be of me losing my cool because the toys were not...

Baby J and I spent a good part of part day in a hockey arena, cheering on my big boy's hockey team. I am so proud of these kids! I am a true Canadian mama :) Ps: He is wearing jersey #1!

Well, it seems some kind of sickness has come to annoy my household. So far only C has been sick. He has had a fever for two days with a headache, nothing else. I am hoping it is only his ears, as bad ad that sounds. We do not need any more viruses to go through each member of the household. So the past two days have been spent tending to the sickie and trying to not get sick myself. So exciting here!

I got up, ate breakfast (gasp), started laundry, tended to the fire and exercised!! It wasn't a full out, go until I drop workout. I am easing back into it. I did just give birth 2.5 months ago! So thankful that the bigger kids and the baby all cooperated with me so I could make that "me" time happen! Cute kid moment: Jeriah smiling and trying to giggle at Cohen this morning. Melted my heart!