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It is good to be in a home with air conditionning, but I am not one complaining of the warm weather, sunny weather and all that it brings. I am one who longs for it during the 6 months of rain we have here.

The Mercury Retrograde plus the New Moon energy got me all messed up, but learning to go with it. WITH it, not AGAINST it. What are your best tools during these energies ?

This week, I am thankful for:

• The good weather we have
• Hugs and cuddles
• The book I read to the girls at bedtime
• The reading I had at the beginning of the week
• The amazing things I have won, unexpectedly
• Fresh food
• Money coming in that will allow us to get rid of our debts
• The house we found and that would be perfect for our need, and the hopes it brings
• New furniture
• Decluttering
• Kindreds
• My book project
• Our 10th wedding anniversary
• Observing the hummingbirds (some would tell I am a tad bit obsessed)
• Dreams, big and small

What was your week like ? If you could only hold on to  3 or 5 things that put you in deep Gratitude, what would it be ?

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 got off the phone with Mom last Friday (I know. late again. I should think of renaming this series ;)) after crying and telling her I just don’t understand some of her choices, and just want to know the truth. It happens. Especially when you are someone overly sensitive. And she listened calmly and reassured me. Because she knows now how to deal with my tears. It used to be a big misunderstanding, her the strong independent woman and me the «too much» kid/teen/woman.

This week, I am thankful for:

• long morning walks with my Husband
• Mom is now done with her radiotherapy treatment
• fresh fruits bowls (current favorite: pineapple+Muscat grapes+raspberries+orange)
• watching religiously my hummingbird feeder to see them appear (blogpost to come)
• rest
• sunshine
• tears
• friends
• decluttering
• hopes and dreams

tell me, how do you take time for Gratitude in your life ?

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).

May… today is the first day of May (come on…. almost half the year has already passed by ?!). Definitely Spring over our neck of the woods, some days almost feel like Summer. The barbecue is used more and more, the girls spend time outside everyday after school, my strawberry and blueberry trees have flowers… Spring and Summer are my favorite time of the year, so just that makes me happier already. Lighters.

I feel like I am grateful for the same things over and over, week after week. But it’s more than okay, actually. There is nothing wrong with that.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Synchronicity with my Kindred who lives a continent and an ocean away
• My husband being home at night
• Barbecues
• Granville Island Market (=fresh fruits=fresh fish=deli)
• Cooking
• 90’s R&B music
• Melissa coming over
• Decluttering my Studio
• Sacred Stories finding their way out
• Hugs
• Hearing Mom on the phone
• Sticking to the Whole30 (today is day #20)
• Sunshine

What about you ?

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 know I know… I have not published a Gratitude Friday in a while. Well, practicing what I preach seems in order so here I am, hoping that you will jump on board with me and take a few minutes to rest in Gratitude 🙂 And I even publish this on a Sunday !

This week was our quarterly week of my Husband being in the US for a work trip. It has been like this for a while now, but despite everything it is not becoming easier, as it should.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Today being Friday, meaning a lot
• FaceTime with a Kindred
• Private messages with other Kindreds
• Cooking good healthy food
• Getting things done for my next class, TextureTales
• Hot bath
• Good books
• The first book I am published in has been released
• Looking at them while they sleep
• Time spent with friends
• Time spent in Vancouver itself

It is the little things, added together, that weave what makes it a beautiful life <3

What about you ? please, feel free to share

It feels like forever passed since I wrote my last Gratitude Friday blogpost. Everything, right now, feels like forever, to be honest. And I have to be okay with that, and to accept that everything goes to its own rythm, that pushing is a waste of energy. It is about balancing the Light and the Dark and this is what I have struggled with since my early teenage years. And this is why carving time to reflect, to pause and to truly deeply be thankful matters to me.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Music
• Going back to my Teal Studio
• Running with Grenouille
• Having my Mom on the phone
• Finally writing a book that feels right, deep in my bones
• My husband’s unconditional love, no matter what
• My Kindreds Sisters
• Art
• Books
• The days with no rain falling
• Mysteries
• Hot bath taken mid-afternoon, because I can

And you… what are you thankful for ?