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Living In The Here & Now

I was standing here cooking dinner tonight with lots of random things going through my mind when it dawned on me. I am literally living what so many of us are told. Live in the here and now being grateful for those in our life and what we have, while planning and dreaming for your future!

As I cook dinner (tacos!) in our existing kitchen I can see our new kitchen taking form and I am bursting with excitement! We are literally living in the present and enjoying a taste of our future at the same time!

Its within reach. I can literally see it taking shape, exactly what was in my mind being built in front of my eyes. Perhaps even more appreciation for just how much hard work this has taken, our hard earned dollars selecting the perfect quality building materials.

We’ve worked damn hard for this and I am just so happy! Feeling so very grateful <3

What you envision and believe you are deserving of, great things in life can happen. When you open your heart and mind to grow through the challenges, personal growth. When you know in your heart your goals and dreams, they will come true.

Jaz, I love making this house of ours our forever home together!

I have the cleansing power of Melaleuca / Tea Tree, the uplifting scent of Peppermint and the refreshing bold smell and flavour of Lemon in the diffuser!

Have an amazing evening! <3

Ramblings of the Oily Photographer

Today things are feeling good. Feeling like they are starting to come back into place again, feeling like we are moving forward again… with a slight delay.

What I have noticed is how much this has been physically affecting my body. Anyone that has seen me lately, after sitting for a while I am not very comfortable getting up. This weekend it was hot, then cold, then cool, then warm, easy for one’s body to tighten up.

So I purposely got up early Saturday morning and said “Lets Get Going!”. I got my little man and furboy and we went out to enjoy the sunshine for a walk. A beautiful morning spent together in peace and quiet and also great company.

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I also relaxed more, enjoyed moving by walking, biking and even catching minnow’s. Having a great, low key quality time with family. Best… getting my camera out and having a computer to edit the photos on! <3

Tonight while taking a walk through our basement, I was commenting to my hubby about how stiff and off kilter I was feeling that it dawned on me… PAM TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE! Get the DEEP BLUE ON! I put it on and ahhhh relief, my muscles are happy, feeling very soothed!

I haven’t been as great lately with meal planning and eating as healthy as we normally do. I had to tell myself ITS OK! You are doing the best you can right now. Or my supplements – which I KNOW help support the nutrition in my body and I thrive SO MUCH MORE when I take them each day. My entire body just flows better. There was days I forgot my supplements.

Ive even been lacking in getting the diffusers up and going – yet I feel SO much better afterwards!

When we get into our own fog, its really hard sometimes to see past into the clear.

This evening I put in some Breathe, Lime and Geranium.

Breathe is The Oil of Breath – assists in letting go of grief and pain, to help open up your body to breathe and not feel suffocated by saddness.
Lime is The Oil of Zest for Life – lime elevates someone above what they have been weighted down from, instilling courage and cheer in the heart and to be grateful for life.
Geranium is The Oil of Love & Trust – restores confidence in the goodness of others and the word, facilitating trust, promoting emotional healing, forgiving, gentle, loving, open and tolerant.

2 drops Breathe, 2 drops Lime and 1 drop of Geranium as the Diffuser Blend.

This diffuser blend is so good, I felt inspired to sit and write, to get it out of my heart and mind. To come down from my head and into my heart, have complete trust that everything is going to work out exactly the way it needs to and everything will be ok. To hold the vision in my mind that I can literally see coming forth before my eyes in so many ways. That with our hard work, love and devotion we completely 100% deserve to reach these goals and be ecstatic with the results. Even with baby steps – you are always moving forward :D! To just write and not care what anyone might say or think. Its about us and what we need to happen – what we see as our vision for this beautiful life!

The good news is we are finally moving forward with the basement!!! My heart has been very heavy and overwhelmed these past two weeks. Its a fresh week that started off today with the green light to re-build! My heart is happy, our kids as I type are designing their rooms – exactly how they want them to be. Its the least we can do for them since they have been displaced for a 2nd time in one year, from their rooms! I am SO excited to give this to them. However they want it painted, where they want their toy storage and shelves to go, what pictures they want in their rooms! To completely make it about them and who they truly are! <3

Our family is excitedly awaiting our new kitchen as well. A process which was our planned spring/summer project and is exactly what Ive been envisioning for so long! I am so excited, proud and quite eager to enjoy this upgrade to our home. Something our family loves doing together, COOKING, and how amazing its going to be – just days away!!!

With the last 2 week flood craze we totally fell out of our “norm” or the “daily routines”, we’ve been tested just a little bit more, challenged with becoming stronger. Learning how to better support emotional health with sleep, nutrition and oils. This past year and a half through all of our renovation process we’ve grown significantly as individuals and as a family. This flood has pushed us all beyond how we normally do things and live to a summer living room sleep over. Hubby and I now purposely going to our bedroom to relax earlier once the kids ‘go to bed’ (remember, kids in the living room) and we are actually getting better sleep because we are ‘going to bed earlier’!

So amongst all of this, there has been a silver lining. If anything, how we grow is the best. We’ve been given the opportunity to spend more time together – because we have to – in a smaller space than we are used to – and its been ok! I feel we are getting through it, with some moments of course but who doesn’t have those. Hahaa life isn’t perfect… but its perfectly ours! ;)

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Under The Belief Influence

The dream that we’ve had for years began coming together today – and it feels AMAZING :) . Once a vision in my head, I can now feel and touch! Believing and knowing that we are deserving and are worth it.

The past couple weeks have been heavy on me and I finally feel the weight being lifted. Having our home literally cut in half after months of hard, quality work go under water, has challenged my beliefs and trust in the world. Feeling let down, but also learning to let go. Reminding myself daily, sometimes multiple times that ITS GOING TO BE OK! Being OK with not being in control and just going with the flow.

Holding true to the belief that if we work hard and have a vision of where our life is headed, it comes to fruition! These challenges are strengthening us by pushing us out of our comfort zone of routine and schedules and into a new way of living together with a lot less things and a new routine!

Ive used a lot of oils these past two weeks to soothe my anxious, worried and overwhelmed feelings. Especially my happiness and gratitude blend with Grapefruit, Geranium, Frankincense, Ylang Ylang, Bergamot and Wild Orange! Also with my Console Touch with Fractionated Coconut Oil, Frankincense Resin, Patchouli Leaf, Ylang Ylang Flower, Labdanum Twig/Stem, Amyris Bark, Sandalwood Wood, Rose Flower, Osmanthus Flower! We’ve also been supporting the littles with oil massages in the evenings to help relax them and starting the day with their favourite oils!

In the diffuser Ive been using either Wild Orange or Bergamot with other oils I am drawn to. Tonight I have Melaleuca/Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, Lavender and Bergamot – its beautiful! Cleaning to the air as well as the energy in the room, relaxing, comforting and uplifting.

These challenges we face in our life can actually be growth opportunities if we are open and believe that some good may come of it. I am so excited we are officially putting things back together on our main floor and are almost ready to get started on the basement, again. <3

A Confident Woman

Life Is What Happens When You Are Busy Making Plans

If there is one thing in life my hubby and I have learned on this journey, its that life is what happens when you are busy making plans!

When we embarked on this whole home reno I was nervous, excited, optimistic, stressed but most of all keeping this vision in my mind of what we envisioned of creating our dream home. A lot of oils have been diffused, we’ve gained a new appreciation of meditation with quiet time and that we aren’t defined by the “stuff” or “things” in our life, but as who we are and who we want to be. The life we see ourselves living.

This past week and a half has been even more stressful, heavy and yet has provided us a new appreciation and outlook on life. Our sanity has been tested, our motivation lacking, emotions taken over and yet we are thankful as it could have been worse. Appreciative for the home and space we have, thankful its the summer while experiencing this shake up, thought invoking of what we could now do to make it even better in our forever home and trusting that within the next couple months we truly will be complete! ;)

Today our home begins to have part of it put back together. The part that was actually planned! For years we have been saving, planning and dreaming of what our perfect kitchen is and today it begins coming together! In the midst of this chaos there is a bright light, a deep sigh of relief, one we have been truly looking forward to since we moved here 6 years ago and one I have been dreaming of since we purchased our first home 13 years ago.

We may now be in reno mode for a little bit longer – however its going to turn out exactly as it was meant to be. <3

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It’s OK To Let It Go

It’s OK to let go, my son told my daughter.

We were sorting through their freshly cleaned laundry deciding what is staying and what would be donated.

My daughter is a lot like me, everything she is given holds sentimental value to her. It’s more challenging for her to let go.

I explained to our kids that we would be going through their clothes and if they didn’t like them/wouldn’t wear them or they don’t fit. They go.

Our miss was having a harder time with letting some things go when my son told her “It’s OK To Let It Go!”

I actually stopped for a moment and thought, WOW this is what I am reaching for, the ability to be able to ‘let it go’ in a material and emotional way. This is what I’ve been working to empower my children with. To not be defined by “stuff”, the clothes you wear, toys you have, but YOU! To be ok with showing emotions and expressing frustration.
Now with literally having no control over our current situation, I was allowing my need to be in control over my life and situation to cause me a lot of stress and anxiety.

When really if I take my son’s advice and just be OK to let it go… It would actually feel very freeing!

Our situation sucks, but it’s certainly not the worst. I am grateful for that. I am thankful for the family and friends who have supported us emotionally and physically over the last few days. Seeing your newly finished hard work go down the drain (haha the water finally did go down), is heart wrenching!

I am optimistic and excited for this new next reno phase and more so because we are learning to live with much less! 💕

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When Mother Nature Strikes | Friday Flood

The other morning my family awoke to a nightmare! Our newly finished basement was flooded 😣!

This rain storm affected so many people in and around our community. Some people with as much as 5′ of water in their basements.

Thankfully we did not have that much. We did however have enough to affect everything in our newly finished basement.

I was waiting until we finished upstairs to figure out all the “little things” like hanging photos, putting up shelves, building the kids homework station, organizing the book shelves. So literally all of our kids belongings… were under water. Family photos, photo books (the kids love looking at them before bed), pieces of art from when I was a child, canvases, hand made items from family etc. Some things that have SO much value, but maybe can’t be replaced or how could you put a value on it.

What really hurts is we JUST finished the basement. My hubby went room to room and completely redid the rooms with new insulation, drywall, flooring, trim, fireplace. Going room by room to minimize the disruption to our family, especially our children. We had it set up perfectly with plans literally in the works for how we were going to organize down there. A project I was going to take on with hubby’s guidance after the kitchen was finished (which is beginning this week)!

Sometimes life stops you in your tracks and says nope we have other plans. Challenges are so incredibly hard at times when it involves change. Change is hard for me. The basement the first time around was very hard on me and it was a room at a time. This is heavy. Very heavy and incredibly emotional. After all of our hard work our basement has to be completely gutted! Completely – not one room at a time! Thankfully when we were renovating we invested in some upgrades that actually helped minimize the damage in most rooms.

It’s been a very upside down weekend. I have had to be ok with being vulnerable. OK with letting people help me, this is actually quite hard for me. I have to be ok with the unknown and letting go. I have to be ok with change.

So instead of finishing off our ‘whole home renovations’ with our main floor renovations with all new floors, kitchen and mudroom… we now move back to completely redo the basement… again!

In the middle of the night, early Sunday morning, the stress of the situation took hold of me and I was having some painful stomach pains. Stress typically affects my body in a physical way. Being soothed by my Digest Zen Touch and then after lunch boosting it up with Geranium, Ginger, Peppermint and Digest Zen/ZenGest. Sleep and my oils and I am beginning to feel better.

A drop of each in some Fractionated Coconut Oil and I felt wonderful calming, soothing relief.

It’s heavy. We were nearing the end of our whole home renovations. I realize we are lucky and I’m in no way thinking our situation is the worst, but it’s a loss and after all our hard work, it’s feeling very heavy.

Of course there are positives, that I remind ourselves of many times. We are safe. Our structure of our home is safe. What we invested in for the basement were very smart choices. We can begin to live with even less “stuff” simply because right now we are literally in half the amount of space! We can give back by donating what we can’t use at this moment or that was getting a bit tight on the kids. The kids can spend the summer bonding even closer sharing the same room to sleep in. Movie nights just got a lot more fun to be cuddled on their beds all together in the living room. LOL however we can be positive in the situation the better for me and my own mental health. Having previous challenges with depression I have learned I need to listen to my body. Yesterday afternoon without a doubt in the midst of the ‘waiting for the next step’ we all had to rest.

What this has also taught us is to be appreciative and proud of our hard work. We had been holding off to “share” our transformation until it was all done, all the finishing touches, but you know what that doesn’t matter. Life throws us these curve balls and there will always be an opportunity for growth. I am so proud of my husband and the work he’s put into our house to make it our home. 💕 Although much of his hard work was under water, it is repairable. As much as this hurts my heart that we are going to be in reno mode for even longer, I can adjust to change and our new way of living for right now.

The mildew smell is already quite prevalent and our diffusers have been running almost non stop! Yesterday afternoon a great one not only for helping with the odour but also for cleansing negative energy from the space.

2 drops each of white fir, lemongrass and Frankincense. Both frankincense and white fir providing grounding and stability.

We now move forward to rebuild and vow to our children it’s going to be better than ever! A somewhat backwards approach to truly decluttering and purging our home, however this is what we’ve been dealt and we CAN and will handle it!

Do you have boundaries?

I’m willing to bet, like many of us, you don’t.

I am just realizing I totally don’t!

How is your time divided up each day? Do you have time for just you, time for your spouse/partner, kids, extended family, friends, hobbies, work etc?

What are your priorities each day that must get done and the importance of them?

I am beginning week 6 of an 8 week course called Lead on Purpose. This mind shifting leadership course is more than just leading other people. It’s about truly diving deep into WHO you are as a leader and where you want to see the shift in your life.

For the the past almost 2 years, we have physically been shifting our home life with a whole home renovation project. Physically and emotionally growing and changing with our space. Truly feeling comfortable and something that is US!

I have totally felt where I’ve borrowed time from other areas of my life. Feeling depleted but not knowing how to balance out or necessarily why I was feeling that way. Reshuffling my true priorities in life. Start with truly loving myself, knowing and feeling my worth. Having time for me every single day, whether it’s 15 minutes or 1 hour. Consciously and physically being present daily with my husband as well as our kids.

Developing boundaries for every other area of my life. With my family being my very highest priority. The time we have with them as children is limited. I already see how fast they are growing.