So many beloved athletic events have had to change in order to implement COVID restrictions — but don’t let these changes stop you from participating! I’ll never forget the first time I learned about runDisney. We had just arrived in Orlando and were aboard the Magical Express, making our way to our hotel, when I saw the signs... Continue Reading →
Spreading Joy In a Time of Crazy (Or how baking a new kind of cookie was a recipe for family happiness.)
Given what we have all lived through these past two years, I can't honestly believe I'm writing this but . . . these first few weeks of January have been some of the craziest yet. We have had completely mixed up weather - from having warmer than normal temperatures and now snow, to freezing temperatures... Continue Reading →
A Multitude of Small Delights
For the past several years I have chosen a "word of the year". I started this tradition when I first enrolled in Ali Edward's "One Little Word" class and have kept up the tradition of choosing the word ever since. This year, I noticed more and more chatter on social media about choosing a word... Continue Reading →
Don’t Stop Believing
I started the year with the idea that this was the year I was going to believe. Believe, after all, was what I had chosen as my "word of the year" for 2021. I wanted to believe in goodness and kindness in the world, in myself, and, I guess, in the fact that COVID would... Continue Reading →
You Just Need…
I read a great quote over the weekend on the Project Happiness Instagram feed. It read: It's so funny how so much of 'finding yourself' in adulthood is simply getting back to who you were and what you loved as a child-Project Happiness Now that the kids are back in school full time, and with... Continue Reading →
On Grief, Fear and What No One Ever Told Me
I have been more emotional in the past few weeks than I have been in a long time. As it seems we are slowly inching our way out of the COVID crisis, with the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter every day, I am also barreling headlong into the ten year anniversary... Continue Reading →
What Is the Silver Lining?
It’s hard when things don’t turn out the way you’d hoped they would; when you face defeat, be it big or small, not to feel defeated. My son faced, what felt like to him, a few big defeating moments one day at the start of the school year this year. In the grand scheme of... Continue Reading →
It’s All Possible
Almost ten years ago, I sat in a doctor's office with my five month old in her little bucket car seat at my feet and heard the words "They found something. You have a brain tumour". It's funny what I don't remember from that day; I have no idea how or any recollection of how... Continue Reading →
Think of the Happiest Things
If you were to ask me to list my happiest things, after family and friends, of course, my first reaction would be to list the "big" things in life. Travel, whether it's to a beach two hours from my house, or to a beach that's a five hour plane ride away, makes me happy. Excursions... Continue Reading →
If You Keep On Believing
As the end of December loomed, and we were placed into yet another lockdown, with school and sports and even outdoor visits taken away from us yet again, my word for the year came to me: Believe. With so much of my "normal" everyday life stripped away, more than ever I needed a word as... Continue Reading →
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