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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).

This is the last week before life comes back to its “normal”, meaning: back to school for our two daughters.
We moved back to the same city we lived for four years prior to what I now call “Our Québec experiment” so they knew kids etc. My husband and I decided not to continue with the francophone schoolboard. We picked a school that was the right choice for them. Again, I try to focus on the good instead of all the shit our youngest went through.

For this month of September, I want to do my best to bring back my Gratitude Friday Ritual. I hope this will help you as well. knowing that this is not avoiding the truth but that we can still find beauty.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Halsey new album: If I can’t have love, I want power. The songs are just…. and the film she created to accompany was simply beautiful. I am thankful both my daughters went to the theater to experience it with me.
• My husband.
• The conversations with my best friend of 18 years. How she brings the best of me by asking the right questions.
• New books.
• New friends.
• Creative inspiration is making a come back, but I need to take action to meet it halfway.
• Editing videos, even though this is for a new adventure I am starting (or coming back to would be more accurate). If you’re interested, you can check my second youtube channel, Nova’s Kitchen.
• Herbal help for my anxiety and other shit (yes, I am talking about weed).

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).

I know I have been absent almost everywhere online. These past couple of months have been really difficult on a personal level. I usually deal by simply going silent… so this is exactly what I’ve done.
I have however been reading others 🙂 I know that silence is not the way to go, but this is what I know best and at least, this is not a hurtful coping mechanism.

Today, I am grateful for:

• Having scored tickets to see the Imax Halsey’s movie If I can’t have love, I want power.
• Having health insurance that covers treatments like acupuncture and naturopathy.
• Friends, old and new.
• The hummingbirds paying a visit to my flowers on a regular basis.
• Seeing the positive changes in one of my closest loved one.
• My oldest daughter finally being in Summer break after having to attend a math class at summer school.
• New music from artists I love (hello Billie Eilish and soon Halsey’s new album).
• Being able to rest when I need to (I won’t lie: this is still a struggle not to feel lazy).
• My husband who surprised me by ordering the Insta360 Go2 camera! I can’t wait to experiment and have fun with it 🙂
• Nourishment, whatever form it takes.
• Books, carving daily time to get lost in stories.

What about you? I invite you to share what you’re currently grateful for in the comments. There is power in sharing and holding space for each other.

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).

It’s Friday again so I thought I would express some gratitude on this beautiful morning (it is 8h30 here in BC).
We are settling a little more each week into this new home. We still have too many boxes to unpack though. I am learning to be more gentle with myself and to accept that things take time. If I want to feel 200% good in this place, I don’t want to do anything temporarily. This is how we used to deal with moving in within all our previous homes. However, my daughters agree that we feel better in the 2 months spent here than in the four years in Québec. It is reassuring: it was not all this trouble for nothing!

This week, I am thankful for:

• The warm weather
• The hummingbirds I see regularly
• My Mom is taking care of various health issues; it is scary but she will feel way better afterwards
• My daughters both seem happier lately
• Make-up and how it makes me feel more like myself. I love playing with colors on my face.
• I am done with Cégep and completed one year out of two.  There is no way for me to go forward because I moved and classes will be back to be in person instead of hybrid as it was for this first year.
• Not having to wake up around 5am for classes
• Music
• Food and cooking a bit more than in the past few months

I’ve been sick for a few days weeks, but I’m finally now feeling like myself again. Little by little. One day at a time.

I started to write a whole other thing after that first sentence below and then decided to erase it. It has to do with all these stories I tell to myself, and it felt old and a voice in my head told me «you need to rewrite this story you keep telling to yourself, Darling». So I listen and decided to delete it from here.

Sometimes (ok… often), I find myself comparing with other artists. Even if I know each of our paths are different and filled with different successes and challenges, I can’t help but compare. However, what is always always there is that feeling of being blessed: I do have the chance to work/ from home. I do what I love, even if I wish more of/for it.  A lot of learning since 2008 when I somehow started this creative journey I embarked on, a lot. I am forever thankful for that.

NOTE: I actually wrote these first paragraphs above in 2013 (!!!). As I am going through the 24 drafts posts currently existing on my blog, I found this and thought I could add to it.

I have not created anything since I filmed my lesson for Book Of Days, a few months ago. I am now settling down in my new space and it is smaller than the two previous studios I had. However: I do have my own space in our downsized home and that’s amazing.
On Fridays, I use to have this series of blogposts titled Gratitude Fridays and thought even though today is Monday, it would be a good moment to express gratitude.

Lately, I am thankful for:

• The weather in BC has been beautiful this week, sunshine, warmth and blue sky
• The girls still enjoy their school, crossing my fingers this will stick for the next few years
• Slowly but surely, we are making a home out of our new house
• I’m extremely busy with college classes and papers/projects but my grades are really satisfying
• My Mom got her first shot regarding the covid-19 situation
• I might take back some foodie projects I had set aside
• Sushi from the west coast (do I really need to say more?)
• I got an unexpected custom Etsy order and this makes my heart flutter
• This nice feeling of getting shit done
• I drove alone the 50 kilometres that separate our home from the YVR airport. We had to return the location vehicle and the taxi charge would have been high so yeah, I drove the rental. It was the first time I was behind the wheel all by myself for such a distance. I know I am 35 and it should be a breeze but trust me: driving is something I enjoy but that scares me a lot.
• Mae found me the Monster Papillon I have been looking for and even though I know energy drinks are no good for you… it helps on days when fibro is acting up.

I would love to support you and if you feel like it, you can share a few things you are grateful for right now and see if a shift happens in your mood <3