A new life

So let me start by saying I hate the word DIET. I really feel it’s like a bad word and I tend to rebel a lot. I am changing the word to LIFESTYLE.

I am a mother of 2 children; Red is 10 and MM is 7. We live in a small community in Alberta. My Husband and I are not the “small” people and our children have inherited our bad eating habits, granted we have a 10 year old that is 5’2”. She will be taller than me, I totally can see that happening and mm will be fast approaching her. The basketball coach already has eyes on her for next year’s team.

Our Lifestyle change came up when my husband and I woke up to reality that our daughter is very heavy . She always has been bigger than her peers. We also have parents that are getting sick at a very young age. My father was diagnosed with colon cancer 9 months ago. Thankfully he is on his way back on the road to health. This made us really open our eyes to the fact we need to take care of ourselves. I always tell clients if you want your kids to keep their rooms clean you need to clean yours first. You need to hold the same standards you have for your kids to yourself and they will follow.  With that in mind we can’t put Red on a diet lifestyle change and not do it ourselves.

I have never been on a lifestyle change before so I am very nervous of failing but I feel wisdom comes from frailer. I also feel we will do well because it’s the whole family doing it. We will learn new foods and new ways to have fun. We will grow as a family and shrink in size.

We have signed up with one of our friends. She is a beach body coach and I am so pumped to see what we can do together.

BRING IT ON!

 

Living in liminal space

The last few months we have been living in a unknown world. I feel so out of control with what to do next? Where do we take our family?  How do we live off the little money we get from EI? Do we sell the house? Do I quit my company to get a more steady job?.  This is a lot to think of, a lot to worry about. This season has most defiantly put a strain on our relationship and finances. With my hubby home with us it had been so nice to parent together and enjoy our kids.

I was listening to my favorite podcast the other day and it was on seasons and how to navigate though them. We feel overwhelmed and stuck waiting for a job to call us back. We are in a strange place that I could not think of a good word for. Then Rob Bell said that this space is liminal space.

“Participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way. Continuity of tradition may become uncertain, and future outcomes once taken for granted may be thrown into doubt. - Wikipedia 

This is 100% how my husband and I feel. We are at the threshold of old and new.  We still don't know what and where we will go and that is ok. We have some changes coming that will be good for us. I hope to share them here with my peeps.

Embrace the liminal space and don't stress and hurry to a space that may not be where you need to go. In this space breath, find peace you will figure it out and the universe will guide your heart to a new way of life you just need to be patient.

Till next time my friends

 

 

 

 

My Planner that keeps me sane.

Good Morning,
I have a secret of how I stay organized. I love planners and love lists. I have never been diagnosed with ADHD but I feel sometimes I just don't have the greatest memory and a little forgetful. It is my biggest anxiety trigger that I will forget something.
I carry a Happy Planner. There is a lot of different planners out there. I feel you need to find what will work with your life. I love Happy Planner for a few reasons.

1. I love the pages are removable. The disc bound system is awesome and strong. 
2. 100% customizable. They have a lot of things that can be added to the planner. They have fitness, meal planning, todo lists and budget planners.
3. lets me be creative.
4. fits my whole life in one book.

look at there site for some awesome stuff.

http://www.meandmybigideas.com/

Some of the Happy Planner candy that I am in love with.

My Motivation page

A busy week.

Cleaning schedule

Goals for the coming month

Lists Lists and more Lists

I am in love with the stickers that they have.

love that I can be creative and useful at the same time

I am not being compensated to talk about this planner. I just love it so much and I feel that if you are a busy lady this is the book for you. I just love how it keeps me on track of my goals and keeps my home and 3 jobs all in one area and I don't over book myself.
Have fun and wing it.

sometimes plan but somtimes wing it

MY FAVOURITE COFFEE CUP

Good Morning, life here in the crazy house is.... crazy. In this season we are in its hard and so unknown. We don't know where we need to go. Its like that song "should I stay or go now". As of right now we are trying our best to stay in our home. I am working on a awesome clients home. Hubby is filling in at a other company. Praying he can find a job soon. For now life is kind of nice having him around helping with the kids well I am working.

With us staying in our home we have been really looking at what we own and how much you really need. I am thinking on sharing some of my tricks on how to live on EI.  We can plan but sometimes you have to wing it. We are totally winging life right now and that is ok.

I think I will make a schedule to blog more. I also have become a planner baby. Wel I have always loved planners since high school but now I love it even more. I will share more another day but here is a little sample of it.

hold it together with some duct tape

Good Day.

Life is still crazy busy but I love it. I had some time and some duct tape. I know right a bad combination for me. My office is working out great for me and the kids love coming and hanging out in here with me well I work. I love my space to. Would love to find some time to paint the walls but it will come soon.

Ok on with today small project. I got these drawers a few years ago off our local buy and sell. I loved them they get around a lot in this office. For a while they held all my office computer paper. Now they hold all my office stuff i.e. pens, stapler, stuff like that. Well of course I love duct tape and I was as the dolor tree here and found some awesome duct tape, like clear the shelves out kind of stuff.

I few months ago I coved my magazine holders with some tape and I loved it. It makes them look great and adds to the strength of the holder. You can read it here.

Back to the drawers. I simple took the old hardware off and stuck on the tape. Super easy.

 

 

I had some knobs kicking around and for now they work good but you know there will be super cute ones coming.  The bag and basket are for my planner crap as my hubby calls it, But that is for another day. Yes I have jumped on the planner addict train hard core. That is another post or 2 for sure.
Till then be crazy and live life.

Good morning blog world!
I figured I  had a few spare minutes to update you all on our progress. Well we had our first showing last night. The couple is so sweet and so excited to move forward. We still have to deal with all that bank stuff still so the house is still for sale as of right now. I am getting more and more excited and nervous but I do see the end results and that is debt free and a small farm house.
The past week we took 9 bags of clothes, 3 boxes of house hold stuff to the thrift shop and 2 truck loads of garbage to the dump. Still have about 1 more load to take to the dump as well. Removing all this stuff feels so good. Its crazy how much stuff can hide in a 920 sq house. I have worked in large homes and its shocking how much stuff just accumulates. We are on a tight budget so its not like I buy anything.
So we are now one step closer to moving into our travel trailer. The kids are getting excited. I hope I can keep my emotions together on this journey and pray lots, for guidance well we are on this crazy path.  Pray we can find the honey a job soon.

Buy for now.

Office Progress

Well it has been I while since I blogged. I have been supper busy making a life and somedays just surviving. I am working as a designer’s assistant and I am so happy doing it. It has its stresses but I still love it. I also became a partner in a paint company and now sell American Paint Company brand chalk paint and I am enjoying working on that as well. I still do HR for my parents company and I also still am organizing for a lovely lady a couple times a month.  I can see why I have not a lot of time to blog and do house projects.

I think today I am going to share my office in progress. I love it, it’s getting there slowly, but it will be the best office ever soon. If you want you can see my thoughts on the office here. I got the cabinets in and realized they were not regular height. They are more desk height and I was more excited cause then I didn’t need to get new chairs and then my office really became free.

My amazing hubby helped me so much with this. I think he really wanted me to get a nice office so I would stay in it and not drag all of it to the living room.  We got to work right away. We started with the closet. It was not a bad closet but if you know me I love a good closet organizing system.

 

Some of the drawers needed to be fixed so I did that well hubby cut the 10foot counter top. Yes 10 feet of awesomeness. I can stretch out all my paper work and it’s awesome. As you can tell I love my office.  

 

We grabbed an other counter from my dad. He had it in storage for a long time. It fit like it was meant to go in this room.

 

Oh it came a long really well. I was a bit worried it was going to be to big but I don't think so at all.

Then I filled I filled it all back up with all my goodies.

Needs a bit of work but it holds a tone of stuff.

 

 

 

For now it looks a bit busy for me but I am still loving it and I do stay in here with my work now. The best part of the office is the window. It lets so much light in and I can hear the birds singing away. 

 Well that is all for today. Thanks for reading my free office makeover. Stay tuned, you know it will change again.