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Heya !

I wanted to share a few things with you this week, but I was grabbed by time and didn’t share anything… but I decided not to put pressure on my regarding my publication frequency on the blog, so…

Today, I wanna change a little bit my habit and was inspired by Anik, who shares every week her Gratitude Friday and freely changes the “rule”, which I like a lot.

I wanted to thank people who had/have a role in my life has it is today. So it both a themed Gratitude Friday and kind of a “chain” one.

I am really thankful for having:
▧ The #1 in my Heart: Mamounette, my mum. She is a Warrior Goddess who is not aware she is one, she is a Fighter and I am proud to be her daughter. She never lets me down and always cheers me up when I need it the most; she knows I don’t speak but she reads in me like an opened book, even while I’m thousand miles away. She’s the best mum ever.
▧ My father, which I barely do not know, even if it makes some effort to fix this fact as he can. I learn to accept him as he is and not as I imagined him during my childhood. I appreciate he tries to build a relationship with me, even if we met only once,  I was 22 years old. Its absence forces me to grow up sooner.
▧ My aunties, D. & M. even if the last one died more than a decade ago, her death modeled who I am now. It’s weird how the absence of someone influences maybe more than the presence itself. Auntie D. was always there for me, and she is really close to my Mum; I know she takes care of her.
▧ The friends that were in and out of my life, from early childhood until now. Friendship is something I really have difficulty with, trust and keep a friend over the years… Most of my friends are from the Internet, but I met most of them in real life, we seperated by an ocean but I now it’s a matter of time until we see each other again, I feel that with some (the women I call my “Soul-Sisters”, Paola/Sophie/Cocotte/Isa, for example), we have something to build (I wink at my friend Sophie, I’m sure she knows what i am talking about, this gut feeling). It’s hard to go on when you feel betrayed, but I learnt the hard way that our heart is meant to be open. There is no coincidence and in every bad moment/meet, there is a positive life lesson hidden.
▧ The boys I fell in love with. I only have three real couple relationships, as the adage says “the third one is the good one”, it was true for me. I would not have met Anthony without the two previous relationships, I learnt a lot through them, so I am thankful even if I was badly hurt at the end of each one.
▧ Anthony, the One, my SoulMate, the love of my life. I am so thankful he entered in my life more than six years ago and that he is still there (I’m not always an easy going woman, I confess). Thanks to him, I gave birth to two wonderful girls.
▧ The pagan community, who taught me a lot when I needed it during teenagehood, and where I met some amazing persons (yes, you). Today I am not a part of it as I was before, I went away for a path that suits me better.
▧ The blogosphere in general, full of people willing to change the World as they can, sharing their gifts. It is full of nuts but I only want to see the beautiful souls out there, it is really a web.
▧ Thank you to S. and Alice, who gave me a glance to the wonderful life that is in front of me.
▧ Thank you to all of you who entered my life, even without knowing you are a part of it. You inspire me.
▧ And finally, I want to acknowledge myself for being me, because my Soul chose this body, these two parents I have, this path, with all the obstacles on it, the encounters I had and will have, the doubts, the wonders, the creepy things, the rainbows. No, everything is not written, I have to power to build my life as I want it to be, but the big facts are chosen from before my birth.

Woo and thank you for having read all of this if you did 😉

ENJOY THE JOURNEY.

I’m sorry one time again for publishing this Gratitude Friday blog post a little bit late… Indeed, no, I’m not sorry. But I feel guilty for not publishing it earlier, because I’d like people who do it too to be able to join their link as soon as they want.

And everything happens for a reason, I am grateful for things that happened today 😉

If it’s the first time you come here and don’t know about my Gratitude Friday, you can learn more by reading this blogpost.

This week, I am grateful for:

◉ Our new cellphones, that will allow us more freedom and a better organization.
◉ The raclette party last saturday, to celebrate our first year in Vancouver, with Jérôme & Nathalie. A really good evening and dinner.
◉ The Christmas present offered by M..
◉ The conversations I have with my SweetPea. I love her so much.
◉ The movie-afternoon at Nathalie’s, watching Titanic while drinking a hot chocolate with whipped cream, without any complex.
◉ Alice Sebold and her book “The Lovely Bones“, I started at the beginning of the week, I am half through it and it is beautifully awsome. Can’t wait to see Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation of it.

And you, what are you grateful for this week ?

I am 24 (I’ll turn 25 in september this year). I am a loving and loved spouse and the happy mum of two young girls (we called them “the Trollettes”). The family I built is my achievement.

I won’t lie, sometimes I wish people see me differently that “the wife of…” or “the mother of…”. But it is who I am.

I wish to my family to never give up on their dreams, big, small, crazy. As my Mamounette always did for me (and still do today), I will support everyone and be there no matter what.
Because dreaming makes your heart beat. Because achieving a goal, a dream, makes people happier and lovingful and grateful.

And of course, I wish that Love fills our lives, with laughter and fun… because I know, now, the value of having fun despite the dark sides of Life.

Hello !

It is a really tough prompt, in my opinion. I am a woman who introspects a lot and always have a lot of questions in mind, but I never thought of “how do I wish to shine“… until now.
Thank you Jamie for giving me the opportunity to think of it.

Indeed, it’s really hard and words are not coming, feelings neither, about HOW I wish to shine.
Maybe because I focus more on the “now” and the finality of what I do/want and not on how it will happen.
And maybe it is because I am too full of doubts about my CAPACITY of shining, even if I know that the Light is here, inside of me and is waiting for me to realize how and when I will let it out.

So… I wish to shine by guiding people. Because Life is about giving & receiving, because I’m not in the expectation anymore, I just enjoy giving. Giving maybe inspiration through my words and artwork, maybe through some advices and often without even knowing I am giving something to someone. Because giving is not only about the material world.

Giving makes me happy, so it makes my Heart & my Soul shine. Just as simply as that. And I wish I could give more and more, to more people.

You may be smiling when you’ll know how the design came up in my mind 😉

In fact, I was thinking of creating a logo for a while. Because I am wishing to create some goodies and I’d like to put a logo on it. But nothing came. Nothing.

For Christmas, Santa Claus gave our daughters the DVD of Tinkerbell… so on December 25th, of course, we were watching it all together… and then revelation ! I saw a kind of spiral at the beginning, when Tinkerbell is “called” to what she’s here for. I have a love for spirals, all kind of spirals. And then I felt the urge to take a piece of pater and a pen… and voilà !

Because I am a stamp addict kind of girl, I soon wanted to make this as a stamp. And there’s the magic of the internet, I asked for advice about finding a website, Kathryn (alias Collage Diva) suggested me Simon Stamp that makes customized rubber stamps for a really affordable price (I paid mine around $20USD). I received it today and it’s perfect !

You can also see the logo, colorized, if you go to my online bookstore (made with Amazon.com) 🙂

It made my day 😉

Inspiration can really come from places and things you don’t expect it. I love when it flows like that.