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| my #1 star:))) |
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| NYC central park moment discovered book title!! with some amazing help from my brilliant buddy!!! |
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| The winning team!!! |
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| Visit to my older bro and family in NYC!!! |
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| my adorable nieces |
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| a quick stop in to NYC where my collegue and buddy was too!!! |
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| sunsets on way home |
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| mothers day food made by kids |
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| my mama bear:)))) love her sooooooooo much!!!! |
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| MVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! huge honor and new position too for Chase at business school!! |
I have been such a
bad blogger lately and will continue in that direction given that I am for the
last 3 months and next many months building a second full time company along
the first full time one .
So I will likely be
writing about 1-2 times a month as will be also starting another business blog
in sept that I will announce closer to that time .
I am using this blog
now for record keeping sake for myself and my family . Follow along if ever
interesting for you !
Short recap of what
has been going around here:
beauty- ots and lots of dance ! And lots of winning .
Every competition beauty has been in this season for team Hype or her solo she
has won !! Most first place and a couple third place ! ( always based on top
three ) . It's been an incredible season . This weekend when it all ends ( 7
shows back to back ) she will shed a lot of tears I am sure .
Seeing lots of
friends lately ! Has some hard times in last month and was proud of how she handled
. I am feeling sad for her that dance is ended for this season as has left a
hole in her heart and schedule and we don't know what 2019 holds on terms of
dance so all a bit scary . She is such a trooper and a strong girl . We all
have a lot to learn from her . Prepping for her humanitarian trip in August !
Bear - in final exams
now . In sciences this is hard and long ! Also tons of research for university
and he is exploring Waterloo management engineering very closely . He is going
all the way there by car in a few weeks to check it out and spend the weekend
to get a feel for it at one of their events . So much ahead for this kid and so
many big decisions . Very proud of all his hard work in school
. Now also totally
into boxing ! Joined a boxing school . Hard for the mamas heart to have him
come home with two black eyes last week . Letting go is no easy thing . Has an
awesome group of friends he hangs out with . He seems to have mastered the
balance thing lately . He finished school yesterday and soooooooo good to see
him relaxing in front of video games this morning lounging around ! Waterloo
visit next weekend and a whole new stage of life opening up
Chase - named
head of logistics
for huge committee at JMSb and worked so hard for this . Also named MVP for the
same committee . I have never seen anyone as committed to volenteer involvement
. Over 3 years in cegep and university he has likely more than 300 plus hrs of
massive school involvement ! I guess it is no conincidece he on his own ( no coop
) got one of the best student internships anyone could home for . Oncology at a
major bug Pharma
that he started
this week ! We are in awe ! It feels like a whole new world just opened up to
this young man . I find these early 20s amazing to sit back and watch as a
parent . So much growth and development is happening in the next number of
years and I am so excited to see his life unfold before him
. So many new people and experiences and celebrations and obstacles to figure
out . It's amazing to watch truly
Me and Hubby - tons
of work on new business together which is crazy and wierd but amazing ! Plus
our other careers . It's a lot .
Will be going to Bali
in a couple of weeks with Bear and excited for that . Lots of house and cottage
work in between . Spring is not a downtime for us . Can't wait until summer to
have some time to unwind on our dock at the cottage . We really are eachothers
true partners in life and love . This new business hares venture has really
made this abundantly clear
We are being put to
the test in what we can handle as workload lately ( and of course self imposed
as we have made this choice for now) . We are also being put to the test with
our kids
Although great things
going on for them - a hard age and stage in general
We often feel lonely
, alienated or frustrated . Other times blissfully connected to them and happy
. Roller coaster ! Lots of disagreements between them and between them and us .
Life is harder to all live under one roof at this stage . Two of them are
adults trying to find their way ; and one of them is a 16 yrs old girl who can
be really hard at times and a delights at others . It's all very hard to manage
and deal with too be honest ! This stage are new territories for us to navigate
and just trying not to drown !
Mothers days was this
weekend and was really really nice . Some mothers days are better than others
and this was one of them !
I spent the entire
day with my mom on Saturday as we drove to a funeral 2.5 hrs away of my aunts
grandma . We had a lot of talking time in the car .
Rushed home to get
to beauty's end of year show and Went with hubby and chase and Simon . Then
bear met us for dinner at the best all you can eat sushi Chinese place ever .
I had already said
goodnight to beauty and at midnight she came in and gave me the sweetest
hug and kiss and
said she wanted to be the first to wish me Mother's Day . Made me feel really
nice ! ( although the next day she said forgot to make me a card so at least
had that !! )
Both boys came into
room as I woke up with huge hugs and kisses and love which was also nice ! Bear
then came in room later with the cutest card he made with the most beautiful
funny words on it - his cards totally rock and I treasure them year after year
I chauffeured a good
part of the day as beauty had three more dance shows and wanted her with us in
between for Mother's Day lunch .
Started day after
driving with taking my mom to chapters to browse and choose a book as part of
her gift
Then came home and
chase had made a super yummy pesto chicken veggie pasta and beauty cupcakes and
hubby fruit platter and was delicious . My mom and I enjoyed it all and just
the relaxed time with everyone which is so rare with the 6 of us now these days
.
Chase gave me a cute
pic with some loving words on the back and hubby gave me an amazing gift of
white berkenstock sandals as love the black ones I have and wanted a second
pair for upcoming trip to Bali .
Then we watched a ted
talk I had carefully chosen and had our dessert
Bear had set the
table to eat outside on the nice warm and gorgeous day and was so nice to feel
like summer is around the corner . Bear also cleaned up everything . Was cute
to see them all take over what hubby used to do on Mother's Day and have them
select the meal and cook it and clean up etc . I felt very cared for
After some more back
and forth driving hubby me and my mom sat in the backyard to read and write a
bit and napped as the kids went off to all their activities .
A nice way to spend the gorgeous day
It was a super nice
Mother's Day and I appreciated every moment of it
(And ps yesterday
beauty presented me with the MOST beautiful card with pics and amazing words I
will never forget . Made my Mother's Day complete and I felt so special )
