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Welcome on a new edition of my weekly ritual, Gratitude Friday (if you are not familiar with it, please go read how it came up and what it is about).

This week has been full of ups and downs, but how would we know what we receive if every single thing was amazing, right ?

My husband was away all the week for a business trip and it always shifts the entire dynamic of our family. But we find our groove and go on anyway.

And when I close my eyes, take 5 deep breaths, I realize how many blessings this week actually holds…

This week I am thankful for:

• Having Mom with us
• Cooking and eating real food again, I just finished my 3rd Whole30 and I am in the reintroduction phase for a bit
• Shedding some weight, allowing me to feel like myself again
• My Kindred Sisters, never giving up on me
• Having my plane tickets for Palm Springs
• Warm salty baths
• Stephen King’s books, it’s been a while and I still adore his style and storytelling
• My husband is coming home tonight after a week away
• Bird watching the hummingbirds
• The Blick order waiting for me to pick it up
• Finally having our new mailbox installed after yet another break-in
• Board games before going to bed

My heart is full of love. Even when I feel like going back to bed after the girls are at school

Welcome on a new edition of my weekly ritual, Gratitude Friday (if you are not familiar with it, please go read how it came up and what it is about).

What a long and heartbreaking week it’s been around here. Being a Mom is not always a joy. I discover new sides of me I had no clue existed, new sides of me tht are not that pretty… I have been mama solo this week as my Husband was in a work trip in the US.

Add to that a driving lesson that got me into a panic attack an hour before… I am exhausted.

BUT I am always (always) looking for a bright side to everything, even when I just wish I could retreat from the entire world for a while and disappear a bit. Gratitude has a huge part in me crumbling but not falling.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Long hot bath with Epsom salt, candles, crystals, music and a book.
• My Mom, always there for me and never judging.
• My husband coming home today.
• The earplug  thing on the Roku controller, allowing me to watch tv at night while my daughters were sleeping on each side of my bed.
• Words.
• Not giving up on the Whole30 during this hard first week. Feeling already that I am less bloated.
• Self-portraiture as a personal therapy.
• Being part of the ColourArte’s video Design Team.
• My bed.
• Red lipstick and slick black eye liner.
• Music.
• Hope.

I know many of you are using November as a month to be daily grateful. And I love seeing all those short lists on my Facebook wall. Tell me, what are you thankful for today/this week ?

Welcome on a new edition of my weekly ritual, Gratitude Friday (if you are not familiar with it, please go read how it came up and what it is about).

I love when weeks feel easy. Easy on the heart, easy on the daily routines. This is how this week felt like and wow, it is good to have a breather now and then.

Do you have any Gratitude ritual ? How do you incorporate it in your life ? I would love to know.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Rest
• Witnessing my daughter’s creative side
• Being able to cook, and loving it
• Beautiful and useful crystals I work with
• The creative mentoring with Jenn
• The light. When the Sun comes up, when the Moon arises.
• Music
• The decisions being taken to move forward in my business, in my Spirituality
• The fun paths my creativity takes now and then (have you seen my altered pumpkins video yet ?)

What about you ?

And just because… a little anthem of mine right now:

Welcome on a new edition of my weekly ritual, Gratitude Friday (if you are not familiar with it, please go read how it came up and what it is about).

For once I am writing this the day before, on Thursday, because I will spend the day on a field trip with Koala’s class at a pumpkin patch (still grateful she asked me if I could come… someday she will just won’t like my face anymore so I enjoy every hold she takes on my hand, every I love you and other sweetness like this). As a 3rd grader, she’s not yet “too cool” for wanting her Mom to be at a class event with her, woot woot !

I hope that those of you who are in Canada enjoyed a good long weekend Thanksgiving last week.

This week, I am thankful for:

• The sky above my head, its clouds and all its beauty (as I type this, the sky has this stunning shade of hot pink that is taking my breath away).
• My morning walks.
• The dry sunny weather, don’t mind the cold in the morning.
• Opportunities.
• Being able to speak my Truths, and knowing when I’m crossing a line (and therefore apologizing).
• Tv watching with my Honeyboo.
• My amazing Kindreds.
• Love in all its forms.
• Cutting my hair very short, it makes me feel lighter and freer somehow.
• Cooking.

I wish you a wonderful weekend, friends <3 I would love to read about what fills you up with Gratitude right now.

Welcome on a new edition of my weekly ritual, Gratitude Friday (if you are not familiar with it, please go read how it came up and what it is about).

Hey guys ! How are you doing ? This weekend is a holiday for us here in Canada as we celebrate Thanksgiving. We don’t have any plan and eating some turkey does not really make me happy (so we just… won’t). However, I will spare you the very very long list that would happen if I was to share with you what I have been thankful for the most since last Thanksgiving (I can hear your “hooraaaaays” all the way from where you are ! ahah).

This week, I am thankful for:

• Surviving another 1.5h driving lesson (it tends to heighten my stress level quite a bit)
• Having my husband working hard on my business’ behind the scenes
• Getting the chance to create project videos for a brand like ColourArte
• The unexpected things written by my father in the letter I received from him
• Baking our own bread (we made baguettes). Crazy how easy and fast it actually was…
• Not too much rain
• Not too much pain
• Facetime with a Kindred
• Texts with my BFF

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If you are in Canada, how are you celebrating Thanksgiving ? Not being North American by birth etc, it is not something we celebrate in France or that has the real meaning it should.