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Grateful Mondays: June 12, 2017

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It’s Monday so here’s another grace in small things list. These weeks are just flying by and I seem to be getting closer to the end of my maternity leave, which is leaving me with a ton of anxiety. Anyways, here’s this week’s list!

  • watching Wendy try to swim in the pool during her swimming lessons
  • the smell of a fresh pot of brewed coffee bright and early in the morning
  • sipping on some raspberry mint water during a hot day

What are you grateful for today? Comment below and let me know, or tell me on facebook or twitter (@WithLoveFromBex), or tag me on Instagram (@withlovefrombex). I would love to know what makes you smile.

Happy Monday, Friends!

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Struggling with Dyslexia

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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

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Writing Series: What is your favourite quote?

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Today’s blog challenge actually took me a while…there are so many quotes that I have identified with at different points in my life. Quotes are like song lyrics and musical notes to me, I connect to them depending on what’s happening in my life and my moods. So I did what any other millennial would do, and checked my facebook About page for quotes that I had forgotten about until now….yup that happened….

This is what I found,

“Before anyone can fight for you, you must learn to fight for yourself.”

Live your life knowing that the best is yet to come 🙂

“If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.”

“The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up!” ~ Dumbo

“In Germany, they first came for the Communists; I did not speak because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews; I did not speak because I was not a Jew. Then they came to fetch the workers, members of trade unions; I was not a trade unionist. Afterward, they came for the Catholics; I did not say anything because I was a Protestant. Eventually, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak.”
-Pastor Martin Niemoller, a Protestant minister imprisoned during Germany’s Third Reich

“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
– Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.

 After reading them, I have to say these might still be my favorite. Each one touches a part of my personality and became mantras for some very rough times.
Do you have a favorite quote?

 

 

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Writing Series: Day 4 – Life List

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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.

  1. Watch the Sunrise and Sunset in the same day
  2. Ride a Hot Air Balloon
  3. Have no credit card debt
  4. See a Broadway Musical
  5. Go Whale-Watching
  6. Be a mom
  7. Go to Paris
  8. Have a coffee at a cafe by the Eiffel tower
  9. Visit Disneyland Paris
  10. Visit Disneyland (California)
  11. Visit Disneyland Tokyo
  12. Visit Disneyland Hong Kong
  13. Visit Disneyland Shanghai
  14. Go on a Disney Cruise
  15. See the Northern Lights
  16. Visit every continent
  17. Run a Marathon
  18. Run a half-marathon
  19. Run a 10k
  20. Run a 5k
  21. Practice yoga 5 times per week
  22. Do a headstand
  23. Go on a Yoga Retreat
  24. Visit Germany
  25. Visit Vimy Ridge memorial in France
  26. Visit all the provinces in Canada
  27. Shoot a gun
  28. Go dog sledding
  29. Stand on the Great Wall of China
  30. Start my own successful business
  31. Zip line over the Amazon
  32. Solve a Rubik’s cube
  33. Celebrate 50 years of marriage
  34. Have at least 3 children (1 down, 2 to go)
  35. Experience natural childbirth
  36. Attend ComicCon in San Diego
  37. Attend WonderCon
  38. Write a children’s book
  39. Open a bakery
  40. Have a meatless Monday each week
  41. Join Crossfit
  42. Reach 15,000 step each day for a year
  43. Watch a live taping of a Late Night show
  44. Read a book a month for a full year (4 down)
  45. Take a sewing class
  46. Go on a carriage ride through Central Park
  47. Buy a Tesla
  48. Learn ASL
  49. Sew a dress for myself
  50. Open an Etsy shop
  51. Take my Grandmother to Walt Disney World
  52. Be a keynote speaker
  53. Keep a daily journal with photos for each of children’s first year
  54. Host a large Christmas dinner for our families
  55. Give all homemade gifts for Christmas
  56. Take part in a dance flash mob
  57. Complete the Whole 100
  58. Take a photography course
  59. Attend a blog conference (Type-A Parent, October 2016)
  60. Build my Youtube channel
  61. Get my Master’s degree
  62. Go to Bora Bora
  63. Make my own wine
  64. Do yoga in the park
  65. Start a Podcast
  66. Stay at all the Disney property resorts
  67. Become a DVC member
  68. Take a self-portrait each day for one year
  69. Swim with dolphins
  70. Ride a water taxi in Venice
  71. Visit the Hollywood walk of fame
  72. Sleep in a real castle
  73. See Heaven’s Trail in Ireland
  74. Walk behind a waterfall
  75. Go skydiving
  76. Ride a horse on a beach
  77. Visit London, England (May 2016)
  78. Learn to really play the piano
  79. Have a library with a secret passageway
  80. Go on a girls only vacation
  81. Have a pen pal
  82. Camp out in the back of a truck in the middle of nowhere
  83. Design my own dream house
  84. Go beach camping
  85. Work my dream job
  86. Grow old with Chris
  87. Cook through an entire cookbook
  88. Have an influential blog
  89. Go Canoeing
  90. Watch movies under a blanket fort
  91. Grow a plant from seed without killing it
  92. Rent a beach house for a whole summer and just enjoy the peacefulness
  93. If I ever win the lottery, donate half to Toronto Sick Kids Hospital
  94. Learn to ski
  95. Be able to do 100 push-ups
  96. Learn how to do a backflip
  97. Take belly dancing classes
  98. Take pole dancing classes
  99. Have a whole crafts room
  100. 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?

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My Favourite Childhood Book

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I have loved a good book for as long as I can remember. Hours spent getting lost in adventures, getting to know parts of myself, and riding emotional roller coasters with every turn of a crisp page. Reading might be my favourite way to escape and find adventures without ever leaving the comfort of home. I honestly don’t know what started my love of reading but I do remember my favourite childhood book and how much it influenced me and the path I chose to go.Read More

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