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How was your week going, Lovelies ? I hope Life gave you what you needed.

This week, I simply want to thank Life, and the Universe/Source/God/You_Name_It_As_You_Want. For making my life beautiful despite the rocks on my road, for putting so nice people on my way (strangers who give presents to my daughters “just because” are just an example). Thank you for offering us what we need to change our life and make it better for our family.

Thank you for my/our “supportive circle”, you know who you are and I’m so blessed to have you around me to keep me grounded, to cheering me.

Thank you to my Husband, he is the best for me and their is no word in the World that exists to describe our love; I just live it, feel it and appreciate it, no need to name it.

Thank you Jamie, for your everyday inspiration. You push me to dig deeper in me and to go further in my intention without even knowing it.

Thank you Alice, for your everyday blogposts and the time you take to chat with me.

Thank you Anne-Marie for your emails, they are always, always appreciated. One day, we’ll meet in real life, somewhere in Canada.

Thank you Wioleta, from Hay House, for her kindness. I am so happy and proud to be and Advanced Release Reader.

Thank you to you, who come here and share with me your Gratitude Friday, your thoughts about what I write.

Is there something in your life you refuse yourself to do, or to be ? I’m absolutely sure that the answer is yes.
We all restrain ourselves for something, material or spiritual. Because of social things we were taught (“if you want to be this, you have to do that” “a woman does not ______”), because of what our family taught us, because of what was our education…

And what if we let all that “shoulds” and “woulds” and “have tos” go ???

This is what this week Wishcasting Wednesday’s prompt is about.

I wish to give myself permission to be myself in any circumstances.
Be myself when I am happy and euphoric.
Be myself when I’m anxious.
Be myself when I want to do a crazy dance in the middle of the living room.
Be myself when the tears roll out off of my eyes just because.

Simple accepting and no hide and sick anymore, no more masks.

I have to give myself permission to not be ashamed of who I am, every day that life makes and allows me to live.

I can’t believe it’s already another friday ! This week flew by soooo fast. And what an excellent week, Lovelies 🙂

The Olympic spirit is really there in Vancouver now, we can’t go through it. Did you see the opening ceremony ? My husband and I were so glad that the Native were highlighthed and that THEY welcomed the World on their land.

I feel so energetize by the sunny weather… reboosted ! It’s almost spring, flowers are already blooming, can you belive it ?

This week, I feel grateful for:

⚙ The sun shining outside and inside my heart. Love when the sky is deep blue.
⚙ The catch-up afternoon with Nathalie, and the sushi lunch we had together the day after (don’t forget the walk we did after the meal, to help us digest all the good.
⚙ The video conference with Isa, not long but really fun !
⚙ My daughters, that give me so much love everyday, sometimes I feel like I don’t really deserve it.
⚙ The events happening at Granville Island during the Olympics, we saw such great performances and met fun people too ! (I’ll probably talk about it later)
⚙ My husband, who I love deeply and unconditionally… I’m so blessed to be his wife.
⚙ My mum, who is always supporting and enthousiastic about us, about our choices. It’s so important to have at least someone who trust us.
⚙ The house hunting, even if it’s not “concrete” because we don’t know our budget yet -but we have an appointment at the bank today, we’ll see-. It’s sometimes depressing to see all these potential homes without having the possibility to make offers and think “it could be ours”, but despite this fact, it allows us to dream and to know more precisely what we want it to be.

This week was so wonderful…

Since a few month, I began again to read A LOT. I always loved reading, but I didn’t take time anymore. I don’t know what me realize that I missed it so much.

A few weeks ago, I read the first book of Maggie Stiefvater’s saga “The wolves of Mercy Fall”, SHIVER.  I was drawn into it, and can’t wait to read it’s sequel. So I take my chance of winning an advanced reader copy of it 🙂

I love reading Maggie’s tweets and her blog, she has a sense of humour I really enjoy 😉

In Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other.  Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack.  And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love — the light and the dark, the warm and the cold — in a way you will never forget.

Comes out in stores everywhere July 20th. Pre-order here.

Enter to win an advanced review copies of LINGER, Sisters Red, The Dead-Tossed Waves, and The Replacement on Maggie’s blog.

Ohlala what a week, Lovelies !

As you know, today marks the beginning of Vancouver Olympic Winter Games 2010. I must confess that until yesterday, all this stuff was kind of pissing me off. But something shifted in me, I don’t know what it is yet but it happened. So no, we won’t attend any of the competitions but will watch the opening ceremony with a lot of pleasure (and it seems to be WONDERFUL, dixit my husband’s colleague who attending the rehearsal ceremony and said it was stunning).
It’s on for two weeks (and then two quieter weeks during the paralympic games), when all eyes will be watching our city.
I really want to thank my SweetPea (one of my BFFs), without who we certainly wouldn’t get out to see the torch.

This week, I am truly thankful for:

⚙ We saw the Olympic Torch near our home (like 100m away). We didn’t know if we would attend and it was not planned as I was suffering from a terrible headache since 4pm that had me in tears for almost two hours; so I was in bed trying to get rid of it when we heard the helicopters and the crowd startint to cheed outside. At the last moment, we decided to jump out of bed, dress up really quickly and see if it was not too late. We arrive just on time, the torch passed a few minutes after our arrival. It was very emotional, I’m surprised. I’ll try to upload the video Cheridoo made. The city is dressed with Canada flags everywhere (on the buildings, on the houses windows, on the cars, on the buses, on tv… everywhere proud is shown), Smurfs are everywhere (aka people requisitionned for various things during the games, they’re wearing Smurf-Blue clothes).

⚙ At the end of last year, I applied to become an Advanced Reader Reviewer for Louise Hay Edition (it publishes books written by Lisa Williams, Deepak Chopra, Doreen Virtue, and a lot of other authors . Regularly, I reminded the Univers how badly I wanted to be part of it. Yesterday, I received a package with the logo of the edition with a letter telling me that my blog was accepted and that it was a book they send me to read and then review here.  I’m so honoured and glad to have been chosen. Thank you !

⚙ I received my Silhouette die-cut machine. So excited to be able to customized my artwork thanks to it.

⚙ Talks with my SweetPea and with Paola. Glad also to have some news from my friend Isa. It makes me realize that Friendship is also about letting Friends live their life and be silent for a while, but still be there when they “come back”. I ♥ U

Thank you for all that is brought to me by Life, I’m deeply grateful and will put it for good use, I promise !

Bonus of the day, a video that will show you the strength and beauty of the torch relay, and how my city rocks: