Sacrifices

As a mother is there a limit? I bet for some there is. Is there a wrong answer to how many limits? I don't think so.

We live in a vast world that allows us to parent in many ways. You may parent the way you were brought up. Either by habit, love for the way you were parented or maybe you're doing the complete opposite of what your parents did with you.

As long as your children are first safe and second happy, I think you're doing the right thing!

Our family (my husband, our children and I) live a very old school lifestyle. We've adopted the "stereotypical" rolls of dad goes off to work and mom stays home with the children. Some days are tough, but it works for us. We don't judge other families that require both parents to work and we hope that we're not judge either. You have to do what makes your heart happy while at the same time making sure everyone is taken care of. Life (financially) could be easier with us both working but we'd rather struggle a bit to always have someone home with the kids. That's one of our sacrifices.

This past weekend  we traveled to a neighboring city about 100km away to attend a karate seminar. My husband and my daughter were both taking this seminar. Emmett was going to stay with my mom for the night as it takes a bit of the stress off of us to travel tantrum free. But, when Emmett woke up on Friday he was unable to keep anything down. Not even water. I'm calling it the "mystery illness" as he had zero symptoms of anything. Between the vomiting he was in high spirits and bouncing off of the walls. We made the decision to bring him with us, in case he continued to be sick into the night. Added stress on us is better than him being stressed and sick with us away. But of course, he was perfectly fine once we go there.

It is very rare that we leave our children with anyone, and really it's only my parents. We don't go out much without them. We have many good reasons for this. We're older and our social life now revolves around our children. I'd rather spend time with them making sure they are happy and mostly safe. I hate that we now have access to read all about teenagers drinking and partying status' that they post onto Facebook. This shows me that there's really no one good enough in my books to watch my children. I do hope that one day I can find that responsible youth. I have my eyes on a few, but time will tell and we're certainly not hurting by staying in. Another sacrifice?

After writing this, now maybe they aren't really sacrifices and just duties of being a parent. What have you sacrificed? Does sanity count?

3 years ago.....

I walked down the isle and said I do.

At the end of October 2009, Rob asked me to marry him. Life was going good. He had been called back to work months prior after being laid off for 18 months and I was back in college.

A little over one month later, we found out we were pregnant. How exciting! So instead of putting off the wedding until after baby came, we got into to some heavy planning and had a small ceremony with a few friends and family in Niagara Falls. It was quick and fun. I know it's hard to tell in the pictures but I was 16 weeks pregnant when we got married.

Looking back, I'm not sure we would have had a bigger wedding or not had I not been pregnant. It just turned out so perfectly that I have no regrets about it.

It was a very cold Canadian day, so we were limited with getting photo's taken outside.

I met Rob over 13 years ago at work. We had a hate for each other that was like a grade 5 crush that no one wanted to admit. He was so annoying, yet on days we'd stand around at work and literally talk for hours, getting little work done. We were both in relationships with other people and although I thought it was only a crush that I had on him, it would later prove it was more than that. I had a daughter with my ex and went off on maternity, never to see Rob again. I quit that job when my maternity was up. We were able to reconnect via Facebook in 2007 and my relationship with my daughters father was rocky and was ending.
In 2008 Rob and I began dating and I knew this was it. This was the man that I would be spending the rest of my life with. I couldn't ask for anything better.

I look forward to the rest of our lives together!
I love you Rob!

Negativity feeds negativity.

Honestly. You can't feed happiness negative thoughts without it turning negative. Am I right? Or are you completely confused.

This is the year of self improvement. 

Late last year, we made a business decision. It was a decision that had been weighing on us for a very long time. But in business, there's a loyalty factor that can come into play. It really kills your soul to be loyal to negativity.  This "thing" breads negative thoughts. Thoughts that must be adopted. Like who you are told to like. Opinions you are told to have. Vote this way or else. Friends must be approved or harassment ensues.

It's sad really. Greed and ego can change people in the WORST way ever. I'm a good person, but I absolutely hate that we "adopted" these negative ideas and thoughts, because we thought we had to. We felt stuck. 

We are free now, and it is truly amazing how wonderful our souls feel. The doors that are opening because of the positive thoughts and people that we have in our lives is amazing. Not only will we survive, we're flourishing in so many ways. New adventures on the horizon. 

We are the power. Positively! 

7 Cardinal Rules in Life

I love this! Wise words to live by. Life is TOO short! 

It's almost time

Well I'm going to finalize my site design sometime today and get it ready for my launch. This is going to be a fun journey and I hope people really have some fun along with me. I hope to meet people that will encourage me on my journey and also who will challenge me.

What's my journey? Total transformation of the body, mind and spirit. 2013 is going to be the year of being the person I need to be.

Gratitude

Isn't that the truth! Today is day 21 of my 21 days of gratitude. It really does make you see all that you have. All small things actually become BIG things. It's not about material things. It really has changed me. Later today I think I'm going to compile all of my days of gratitude into one post (as they are currently on my Facebook Fan Page).
I'm also going to keep going. It takes 21 days to create a habit. What a wonderful habit this is.