I know that most people have their yearly resolutions in January…the New Year and all…well I don’t really subscribe to that. I seem to make my resolutions throughout the year. Anyways, this year I am hoping to really push myself. Recently a few life changes have made me feel like I need to seize the moment more, better myself more often and be the best darn person I can be. So I figured that the way I would go about my resolutions this year is by tackling the things that I’m afraid of, like writing. Read More
Pregnant at Disney: 10 Tips for surviving Disney World while pregnant
Back in September of 2015, Chris and I booked a spring trip to Walt Disney World to participate in our first ever RunDisney event, the Darkside 5km. Fast forward to January 2016; we found out we were pregnant with our beautiful baby girl, Wendy. It certainly explained why I was tired and craving all those burritos, but now we had to decide if we were going to cancel our trip to Disney World and lose our resignation payments for RunDisney, or brave it and then have a tale to tell. In case you haven’t figured it out, we decided to go and run too. Read More
Grace in Small Things – Staying positive in a not-so-positive world
I have my moments when I get really down on life, usually triggered by some depressing thing I see on social media or read about in the news, or you know, mental health issues. I’m a feeler like that. AnyRead More
Brilliant Breakfast: Eggs Benedict (the mom impresser)
Anyone that knows me knows I love breakfast food. I can eat breakfast any time of the day, not just in the morning. But my favourite time to eat breakfast is for brunch. There is no better brunch meal than eggs benedict. A perfectly poached egg, covered with a rich eggy, buttery, creamy sauce, pure heaven. It also makes the perfect brunch item for Mother’s day, which is just around the corner. So either you could make this for yourself or you can make this to impress your mama. Show her that you have mad skills in the kitchen.Read More
Walt Disney World & Universal Studios Vlogs!
Happy Friday friends!
Guess who just uploaded the first of many Disney Travel vlogs, this gal. That’s right, I’m going to try and overcome some of my shyness and put these family videos out there. I hope you’ll tune in to enjoy. Every Monday at 10am I’ll be posting a new Disney vlog until I have no more vlogs to share…considering I have many trips to vlog about (like trips from 2015 and 2016) I don’t think I’ll be running out anytime soon!
So head over to my YouTube channel (With Love From Bex) subscribe, watch, and tune in each week. Here’s this week’s episode!
Enjoy!
Writing Series: Day 4 – Life List
Life is short, we all know that. We all have goals, aspirations, adventures that we want to accomplish before we die. I’m no different. There are tons of things I want to do and see in my lifetime. I know that I won’t do all of them, maybe I won’t even get to do the majority of these things, but it gives me hope. My life list serves as a focus point for me when it feels like I’m not going anywhere in life. It gives me hope and gives me a sense of accountability. Maybe by writing them down and sharing it with you, I will be more likely to seek out these adventures rather than retreat to the introvert that I am.
So here it is, my Life List. It’s not a list set in stone, it has changed so many times but here it is now. I think I’ll actually attach this to my About page and come back to it every now and then to cross things off or add to it.
- Watch the Sunrise and Sunset in the same day
- Ride a Hot Air Balloon
- Have no credit card debt
See a Broadway Musical- Go Whale-Watching
Be a mom- Go to Paris
- Have a coffee at a cafe by the Eiffel tower
- Visit Disneyland Paris
Visit Disneyland (California)- Visit Disneyland Tokyo
- Visit Disneyland Hong Kong
- Visit Disneyland Shanghai
- Go on a Disney Cruise
- See the Northern Lights
- Visit every continent
- Run a Marathon
- Run a half-marathon
- Run a 10k
Run a 5k- Practice yoga 5 times per week
- Do a headstand
- Go on a Yoga Retreat
- Visit Germany
- Visit Vimy Ridge memorial in France
- Visit all the provinces in Canada
Shoot a gun- Go dog sledding
- Stand on the Great Wall of China
- Start my own successful business
- Zip line over the Amazon
- Solve a Rubik’s cube
- Celebrate 50 years of marriage
- Have at least 3 children (1 down, 2 to go)
- Experience natural childbirth
- Attend ComicCon in San Diego
- Attend WonderCon
- Write a children’s book
- Open a bakery
- Have a meatless Monday each week
- Join Crossfit
- Reach 15,000 step each day for a year
- Watch a live taping of a Late Night show
- Read a book a month for a full year (4 down)
- Take a sewing class
- Go on a carriage ride through Central Park
- Buy a Tesla
- Learn ASL
- Sew a dress for myself
- Open an Etsy shop
- Take my Grandmother to Walt Disney World
- Be a keynote speaker
- Keep a daily journal with photos for each of children’s first year
- Host a large Christmas dinner for our families
- Give all homemade gifts for Christmas
- Take part in a dance flash mob
- Complete the Whole 100
- Take a photography course
Attend a blog conference(Type-A Parent, October 2016)- Build my Youtube channel
- Get my Master’s degree
- Go to Bora Bora
- Make my own wine
- Do yoga in the park
- Start a Podcast
- Stay at all the Disney property resorts
- Become a DVC member
- Take a self-portrait each day for one year
- Swim with dolphins
- Ride a water taxi in Venice
- Visit the Hollywood walk of fame
- Sleep in a real castle
- See Heaven’s Trail in Ireland
- Walk behind a waterfall
- Go skydiving
- Ride a horse on a beach
Visit London, England(May 2016)- Learn to really play the piano
- Have a library with a secret passageway
- Go on a girls only vacation
- Have a pen pal
- Camp out in the back of a truck in the middle of nowhere
- Design my own dream house
- Go beach camping
- Work my dream job
- Grow old with Chris
- Cook through an entire cookbook
- Have an influential blog
- Go Canoeing
- Watch movies under a blanket fort
- Grow a plant from seed without killing it
- Rent a beach house for a whole summer and just enjoy the peacefulness
- If I ever win the lottery, donate half to Toronto Sick Kids Hospital
- Learn to ski
- Be able to do 100 push-ups
- Learn how to do a backflip
Take belly dancing classes- Take pole dancing classes
- Have a whole crafts room
- Discover my purpose
So there it is, my Life List or as some might call it my Bucket List. Whatever you want to call it’s mine and it’s filled with hope and adventure.
Do you have a Life List? What’s on it?