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Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

Today’s finally the 17th! Here, it means that Winter Break is happening at the end of the day. Woot woot

This week, I am thankful for:

• The beauty of frost on plants.
• Both my daughters seem to have found love.
• The joy of watching Chigago Med with Mom.
• Finding my creative spark again, very slowly but surely.
• The glee provocked by the act of gifting.
• The help brought by CBD.
• The eyes issues Dobby has been dealing with are resolved.
• Celebrating 18 years together with my Husband. I can’t believe he’s still by my side after all these years.
• The fun that Shadow is bringing daily.
• Time with a friend.
• It’s Christmas break!!!
• Making bread (often) and cooking for the family in general.
• My Mom who accepted to be in a video with/for me (you can check it right there).
• The satisfaction felt after completely tidying my Studio’s closet.

This week’s soundtrack:

“Some days, things just take way too much of my energy

I look up and the whole room’s spinning

You take my cares away

I can so overcomplicate, people tell me to medicate”

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

Does it happen to you too, not knowing exactly how you feel when somebody asks? Well, this is how I currently feel while I am sitting down to write this article. And I guess it’s okay to be that way once in a while. Maybe I simply do not want to dwell on my real emotions.

This week, I am thankful for:

• One of my favorite tv show when I was a teen, Heart Break High, is FINALLY on a streaming service (Netflix).
• CBD+THC as plant allies when everything falls apart.
• Having a strong roof over our heads when the weather is acting up.
• Friends who check up on me no matter what shitshow they are going through themselves.
• Ginger molasses cookies I made (recipe from Martha Stewart’s cookies book).
• Family meals
• Planning how I want to proceed for my memory keeping in 2022. Found a really pretty notebook at Chapters yesterday.
• Music. Always and forever.
• Health insurance and health services that are accessible.

This week’s soundtrack:

I’ve got a monster inside me that each personality type
She’s constantly changin’ her mind on the daily
Think that she hates me, I’m feelin’ it lately
Might have to trick her and treat her to
Seventy capsules or fly to a castle
So at least we could say that we died bein’ traveled
Cultured and flattered and nothin’ like a trapper
But what does it matter?

“Whispers” | Halsey

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

This week started well but as I am writing this Friday morning, I remind myself to take deep breaths. Casting a huge and strong protective bubble around my daughter… because some days, you just have to go back to the basics of what you know.
Nevertheless, I decided to focus on what is good. I am choosing intentionally to focus on this list and how it makes me feel in order to slowly replace all the sadness and anxiety and fear that have invaded my spirit.

This week, I am thankful for:

• My Mom being here from France for a few months.
• My Mom and Kai doing crafty projects together without getting angry at each other.
• Mae being an excellent big sister.
• Buying Christmas presents for my loved ones: gifting is one of my love languages.
• Receiving make-up by ColourPop: their collab collections with Nightmare before Christmas and Hocus Pocus are perfect for my current vibe.
• Getting into my groove regarding filming and editing for my Nova’s Kitchen Youtube channel.
• Incense.
• The school’s staff doing their best to help in a very serious matter.
• My order from Ferris Wheel Press arrived and I am still obsessed…

This week’s sountrack:

This is the short film that Taylor Swift wrote and directed. It accompanies the original uncut 10-minute version of her song All too well grabbed my guts and twisted it.

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

Isn’t it strange how they begin to flood your life once we open ourselves to receive gifts? Like compliments, gifts tend to make me uneasy. Is that the same for you? I always feel like I am not worthy of receiving anything good in my life. Trying to change this mindset, though.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Shadow, the puppy we are fostering to adopt. It was hard for Dobby to share his space and us with a new dog but it is getting better and better each day…
• Scented candles.
• People not giving up on us and doing their best to offer help where needed.
• Making videos again… (PS: if you’re interested, here is my cooking channel)
• Starting to buy Christmas gifts for my family members.
• Very good news for my husband regarding his job.
• The moments of sunshine and blue skies in between all this rain.

This week’s soundtrack:

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

On this Friday morning, I feel a weight on my chest (aka anxiety), but it is becoming a little lighter.
No rain in the forecast even if the skies are grey. I feel stupid for how strongly external things influence my internal system but this is one of my truths.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Finally booking plane tickets for my Mom!
• The lovely nails Kai did on me. She’s practicing on herself but I finally agreed for her to do mine. I am not a fan of fake nails but I have to say I love the good job she did.
• How happy my daughter is after celebrating her one-month anniversary dating her boyfriend.
• Feeling safe with my core family.
• Being able to voice my dreams to my better half and discuss them together.
• The potential dog friend we might adopt.
• Hugs.
• Sunshine.
• The warmth of our home, both figuratively and literally.

This week’s soundtrack: