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Spring has not been canceled!!!

Even the corona virus has not been able to cancel spring.

There are cancellations everywhere right now…
Gatherings of more than 5 or 10 or 25…
Sometimes 50.

Concerts
‘In church’ services
Weddings with more than 5 people attending
Funerals with more than 10 attending

Dinners in cafes
Grabbing wings & a pint with your friends
Or a cupa warm & yummy at your local Timmy’s

I am thrilled to announce a pile of things that
ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT BE CANCELED!!

Sunrises nor sunsets will be canceled.

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 (sunrise this morning)     (sunset last week)


Songs of hope & comfort are not canceled…
Singing ‘This is the way we wash our hands’ with the kids
Or watching a pile of musicians on their balconies in Italy playing
‘Ode To Joy’
Or catching awesome music on YouTube

Or when I’ve just heard more bad corona news
& God brings the song
‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness’ to my mind,
Even after I had not heard it for 100 years…
Ok, maybe 20 years.

 

Loving will never be canceled!

The little acts of love won’t be either.

You know…
The sweet little lingerie fashion shows you do,
for your Honey Bear
Or grocery shopping for a little old Pink Mama –
Thanx Bryan!!
Messages of love, from our kids across the world,
Who are self-isolating too

Puppy licks & kisses
Blowing kisses thru a car window
Warm conversations from 2 meters away
Video chats or
WhatsApp calls or
Skype or
Facetime

Sharing joy & delight have not been cancelled
This really is the time that social media is pulling up her big girl panties
& acting like she should have been all along.

Instead of perfectly polished photos of everything
From desserts to holidays
& what ‘real’ homes look like

Beautiful loving news is being shared

Adorable & hysterical pups like,
Buster (@BooBustie) are singing,
‘Amazing Grace’, with a British accent

Or Pluto (@like_pluto) are giving advice
To the ‘two-leggeds’ –
“To just trim the hair around your bums, really short
So that you won’t have to worry about the toilet paper.” 

Concerts from living rooms & basements
Less than perfect ‘camera-ing’ from reporters at home
With their cats crawling across the back of their chair
Or dogs pawing at their computers
Or a husband in the background in his underwear
Un-a-wear his wife is on a video chat

Gratitude has not been canceled
People sending pizza to hospital workers to say thanx
Or standing on their balconies or front steps clapping for them
In thankfulness, for the risks their taking
& for all their doing

Gratitude for our grocery stores & pharmacies
& their staff
For continuing to provide food & medicine
Hot meals for the truckers bringing goods to our stores

 

Relationships are not canceled

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My Randy & I have done more couch cuddling
While watching reruns & old movies
My daughter, sister & I texting while watching a
Hallmark Mysteries or Romances
Actually chatting on the phone with friends

I’ve decided that
While I still have breath
the covid pandemic is not gonna steal
My joy
My love,
My laughter
My faith

I will not give away my joy
Nor my peace,
Or faith in God’s love & care.

I will keep giving away love
I will keep giving away laughter
& I’m gonna keep sharing joy!

 

On Saturday Randy & I went for a walk
It was sunny & warm (plus 6)
Our driveway was full of slush
& puddles
The Canadian Geese were honking
The robins were singing
The crows were squawking
The snow was melting off the roof
& the eaves were dripping
The sounds of spring were delightful!

 

NOPE!!
SPRING HAS NOT BEEN CANCELED!

Even though we’re getting 15 to 20 cm of snow tomorrow.

Stay safe & keep loving

We have 1 more day to git ‘er done this year!

Here it is…the end of a decade.
The start of a new!
& It’s leap year too!!

So, we have 1 more day to git ‘er done this year.

I’ve just spent some time reflecting &
Wanted to share a few points with you
In this, the first month of our new decade.

What is my intention for this year? 

What do I want different from the last decade?

Some things that I want to be different,
From what was happening for the last half of my decade include:

 

Moving more

I want this to be my decade of walking;

Back & forth
In our home 

‘To & fro’
Around the yard

Up & down
On the stairs 

Strolling down
Our pretty lane,

while

Thinking &
Chattering with God.

 

Cutting down on TV watching

So that I can get some other things done
That I’d really love to finish.

Speaking of TV

Watching Hallmark Christmas movies,
Um…Er…Hallmark Movies period.

I’ve been known to watch a lot of them.
You know…
That happy ending stuff I love!! 

We were at a couple of dinners over the holiday season 

Where some of us babes were talking about watching them.

The guys felt the need to express their;
Eye rolling,
‘I’m so tired of them,
‘The plots are all the same,
Where a single parent falls in love,’
Over &
Over &
Over
Ad nauseum. 

Why they felt the need to interject this into our conversation,
I’m not sure. 

But!
Let’s be serious!
They watch their car shows,
& the plot on those -
With unique ‘manly tool-men’
Are not the same?
Over? &
Over? &
Over?

Or the documentaries about war,
Or who built the bridge wrong?
Or how did they build the bridge?
Or what’s underneath a city?
Or the Barrette Jackson Auction for 5 days in a row,
Or Live PD where you get to watch
The cops in riveting action for a thousand hours a week?
Dare I say?
A wee bit of female eye rolling here?

 

Got to admit,
I’m pretty happy we own 2 TVs.

Cuz that means,
I can buzz between Hallmark
& HGTV.
Bwahahahahaha!

 

Keeping what we love or use & eliminating the rest

Minimalizing is one of those things I want to continue doing,
Cuz it clears my mind. 

For me it will never be,
All white walls with a
White carpet & only
3 pieces of white furniture
With 2 pink things in any room. 

Hhhmmm…
While that does have some appeal,
The all white with pink,
Would have to have more than 3 pieces of furniture &
2 books or vases.

No.
Maybe not.
Cuz I’m married to my sweet farmer,
It is possible that white chairs &
Towels may not be pristine for long
When he pops home fast from the field
For a yummy lunch
Or even a yummy me
Wink. Wink.

 

I’m really not a minimalist.
That’s sort of…
Kind of…
An understatement!

But eliminating some of the visual chaos would be soothing & refreshing
So…one thing on my 2020 agenda is, 

I’m getting rid of 366 things.

It may be one a day,
Or none for a week then
Off to the Thrift Shop,
With a big box of,
Previously loved items,
For someone else to enjoy.

Cutting down on TV,
Has opened up some time to throw away…
Or donate
366 things this year.

 

Doing some things, I’ve always wanted to

Guess what?
Last year I read the whole Bible!
WooHoo!!
Yee Haw!!!
AWESOME!!

I’ve wanted to do that for a very long time.
I finally did it using my sweet Mom-In-Law’s Bible
The New Living Translation,
Which is easier to understand than some others.

It breaks it down so that every day you read
A bit of the Old Testament,
A bit of Psalms,
A bit of Proverbs &
A bit of the New Testament.

Sooo cool!!
I did it along with my sister.
It was fun to have someone else who was doing it too.

Wow!!

There’s some yukky stuff in the Old Testament.
Like, people did some horrible things.
I guess it’s sorta like today.

This year I want to write down verses
& quotes that encourage me.
I’m putting them in a lovely journal,
Using pretty colored pens & crayons.

Visually, that just makes me happy.

I also want to
Do some painting projects
& funky-up some wardrobe pieces.

 

Becoming better at saying no

When I am asked to do something,
I’m going to think about time it will take to do it. 

And then I’ll ask, myself,
What am I willing to not get done?
In order to do what ‘they’ have asked?  

If I decide yes,
I’ll cross that thing I won’t have time for
Off my list of things, I’d like to do. 

I’m gonna work on setting better boundaries,
When they make a request.

Like saying, “thanx, for thinking of me.
I’d love to participate!
I can help you out for 2 hours a week.
That is all the time I have to give to this.”

Then I’ll promise me
Not to break my promise
To me.

Or if I’ve decided it’s a no,
I’ll say, “thanx a bunch for asking me to be a part of this.
With the other the other things I have going on,
I don’t have the time to do what this project deserves.
If I think of someone else who could help out,
I’ll let you know.” 

And, again,
I won’t break my promise to me.

 

I really want more energy this year & this decade

I’ve mentioned this question in another blog post…
Where do I wanna be &
What do I wanna be doing when I’m 75, 85 or 90? 

I heard someone on TV today say that their grandma said
Her nineties are her best years yet.
Sooo cool!!
I know I’d LOVE to be able to say that too…
& not be referring to the 1990’s. 

All wrapped up in that question for me
Is deciding on my word of the year. 

A word to represent what I’d like to be at the end of
this year.
Or for that matter…
This decade &
when I’m 75, 85 or 90 

For me that word will definitely include physical health.
I’m very tired of being tired
Worn out
& lacking in energy
& drive. 

That’s sooo not me!
It has been a very difficult past 5 years of that,
This last one being the worst.

So, the words I’m tossing around are;
Energized
Enthusiastic
Effervescent
Exceptional

Cuz I wanna be all those things,
Again,
Consistently!

Just thinkin’,
Maybe,
If my word is Intentional
& all that I do is done intentionally…
Maybe then I will be all of the above? 

To be intentional about what I eat.
How I exercise.
Sleep.
Things I do to refresh me on the inside.

 

What do you think your word of the year might be?

To wind up this post…
I have an apology:
For those of you who have my cook book, A Dish of Delish!
I just saw a mistake
Imagine horrified eyes emoji!

On page 58 I forgot to include
4 beaten eggs as a 2nd step in my Cottage Quiche.
Now, imagine the eyes rolling emoji. LOL!

& finally,
I want to share a quote I love.

 “You know all those things you’ve always wanted to do?
You should go do them.”
Lara Casey

 

 

 

Saying goodbye to a decade!

It’s the beautiful Christmas week, coming up to New Year’s Day.
So, I tho’t for this post I’d include a couple of recipes for your New Year’s Eve.

They are from my cookbook,
A Dish Of Delish! Love from Pink Mama’s Canadian Prairie Kitchen.
The following is the forward of the book.

I miss hand-written stuff!
We email, we text, we skype, we social-media our fingers to the bone!

So, I tho’t I’d like to write,
like I mean hand-write/print,
with mistakes & corrections & lotsa oops!
& I decided to write a cookbook with some of my tried & true comfort food recipes.

Food is intimate.
It’s one way that we show love.
Meals bring us together, even in today’s crazy busy hamster-wheel world.

Something we all need to do, everyday, is eat.
I do have the gift of eating & upon occasion even over-eating.

Some of the recipes I’ve included, are so simple they shouldn’t be called recipes…but they’re quick & lovely & awesome for kids to make as well.

Entertaining need not be fancy…at all.
But it can be if you want it to.
Pick up less expensive ‘no-name’ brand frozen hors devours, chips ‘n dip, cherry tomatoes & snap peas.

Sizzle on home, pop them in your oven, wash your veggies & have some lovely laughter & conversation.

Or grab some take-out, set your table pretty & bring it to the table on your serving dishes.

Be sure to wipe the pretend sweat off your brow, with the back of your hand so everyone will know how long you’ve been slaving in the kitchen. Wink. Wink.

Or, pick up ‘A Dish of Delish!’, make some quick & easy food & look like a totally cool Chef.

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Nacho’s Molly Style (page 10)

  • Spread taco chips onto a plate.
  • Cover generously with grated cheese.
  • Microwave until melted.

Yep, those are Molly-style

You can add:

  • Chopped green onions
  • Browned ground beef with taco seasoning (or crisp, crumbled bacon – Hello!!)
  • Diced tomatoes &/or sliced black olives.

Serve with:

  • Salsa
  • Sour cream &/or guacamole

Chicken Flatbread Pizza (from my friend Virginia page 15)

AKA: “Gin’s Tortilla Appy”

  • On store bo’t flatbread/tortilla spread Bold & Spicy BBQ sauce
  • Top with zig zag squeezes of ranch dressing

Add:

  • Cubed cooked chicken
  • Chopped green onions
  • Minced yellow pepper
  • Grated cheddar

• Zig zag more ranch dressing over top

• Bake at 350 till cheese melts & it’s crispy

 

Strawberries & Apricots Dipped In Chocolate (page 17)

  • Strawberries washed & allowed to dry
  • Dried apricots
  • Dipping chocolate (I’ve used pink dipping chocolate. Wink. Wink.)
  • Melt dipping chocolate in a double boiler or microwave
  • Dip strawberries & apricots
  • Set on parchment paper & allow to cool.

Yum!! Yum!! Yum!!

Speaking of sweetness, I have to finish with a little story.
This one is from the introduction to the Sweet Treats on page 110.

Sweet Treats

As you will quickly see baking is not my first love.
I adore cooking
My Sister loved the baking.

So…you’re in for super easy-peasy, quick ‘n tasty sweet treats.
Because all of these titles could have “easy”, “easy-peasy” or “super quick ‘n easy”-
I’ll refrain & pretend I’m a bit grown-up & avoid using them in said titles.
Wink. Wink. Giggle. Giggle.

I am anticipating some mocking for me actually calling these recipes.
But Hey!
They work for me & so far, no squawking from the tasters, even after 2nd helpings.
They’re so simple kids can build them.

When Keri, AKA Molly, was a little girl, she helped me make ‘Auntie Linda’s Fabulous Yogurt Spice Cake’ tons of times.

Once when she was 2ish I had her sitting on the kitchen counter.
The ingredient’s bowl was in the sink & she was stirring.
She looked at me with total cuteness & said, “I wonder what it would feel like to stick my toes in the batter?”

Well, this little Mama was not about to let a memory slip thru her little girl’s toes.
So, yep! You’re right!
Those adorable little chubby toes popped right into the yogurt spice.
She tho’t it felt yukky, so I picked up each foot & licked it off, while she giggled.

Toes were washed.

Cake was baked.

Later, it was served to our friends & us.
After we had enjoyed, I told the toes story,
cuz I tho’t it was lovely & hysterical.
My somewhat sort-of-perfect-kinda-friend was mortified.
She was yipping incessantly about dirty feet…blah, blah, blah.
Germs…blah, blah, blah.

I just laughed & suggested she should lighten up.
My sweet Molly’s toes were clean going in & even if there was a wayward germ,
that little savage would have bit it with the heat of the oven.
Sooo funny!!

Another time.
Same sink.
Same recipe.
Same adorable little girl.

After we had it mixed, I picked up the bowl.
It slipped out of my hand & spilled in the sink.

The sink part was a bonus cuz our rented apartment had carpet in the kitchen.
I can’t even! (picture ‘O that’s gross emoji.’)

I so love it that My Molly shares her mama’s optimistic heart.
But! At that moment I wasn’t feeling optimistic.

I was actually thinking expletives that I wouldn’t say in front of her, so I just said, “O NO!!”
Molly’s quick reply was perfect!

“O well. We will just start again.”

Just gotta love a pure & cheerful heart!

Have fun in my Sweet Treat eats!

dec 2019 2Hhhmmm…I think I have the menu for Randy & I as we sit on the couch,
catching some TV & bring the New Year in.

Bye - bye to the last decade & Happy New Year!!!

May God’s love surround you & may He bless you with joy, good health & peace.

Lookin’ For The Good

When I was thinking what I wanted to chatter about with you,
in this Love Note & Blog Post,
I decided it should be the thing I’m finding most difficult, right now.

There are some days that ‘lookin’ for the good’ involves no effort at all:
An awesome sunrise
A pink-skyed sunset,

Or as one of our sweet girls from Switzerland said, last week,

“Look, Char! Pink heaven for you!”

A baby’s giggle
Or their chubby little feet.

A lovely chic-flick comedy romance.
A sweet new denim jacket.

Feelin’ good & feelin’ fine!
Wiggling my tail feathers all the time,
Or in other words…
A great health day!

Accolades for a job well done.
People being sweet & kind.

Combines purring,
The grain cart zig-zagging &
Our trucker dudes buzzing the loads of grain to
Fill our bins.

A text or call when someone tells me how much my book has helped them thru a tough time.
Or how they laughed & loved the Blog Post.
Or a subscriber emails in capitals I NEED LOVE NOTES!!!

Sometimes, however,
This lookin’ for good
Involves seriously looking!
This season the intermittent rain & snow has meant,
Harvest has been in fits & starts.
They’re in the fields with coughs & sputters.
The grain dryer is over worked & breaking down
To simply have a rest.

Some humans are not always very kind
to those we love.
In fact, sometimes they are purposefully cruel.

& speaking of coughs & sputters –
An Autumn cold with,
Sneezing.
Snorting.
Kleenex-Ultra-Soft suppliers on speed dial.
Vicks procured in vats &
Coughing till your ribs hurt.

I could go on whining for ever.
But…

I made a choice a long time ago to
choose to look for the good,
the positive
& whenever possible to laugh at life.

I love being a “can do girl.”
I really do believe life is totally about choices!!
I wanna be the girl who consistently chooses resilience
& audacious joy!!

Making the choice to look for the good,
The joy-filled & lovely,
to be an optimist is a trait that has helped me navigate thru my life.

But…I so screw up on this some times…

There are times when I’m judgemental.
O NO!!!
O YES!!!

But seriously…the only times I am really hard on people…
Like totally lacking in mercy are when…
I speak to others about them
Hhhmmm…possibly called gossiping?
You can imagine self-righteous eyes rolling.
Those totally lacking in mercy times,
are when people are doing things that are hurting others.
Or when they are unkind & disrespectful –
Especially to those who cannot ‘fight back’.

Blah! Blah! Blah!!
Talk about excusing myself!!
Just shut-up, Char!
God’s got this.
I don’t have to take care of it.

Innovative tho’t…
pray for them in private
Shut my mouth in public!

But I like to inform other people
as to what ‘the bad ones’ are doing that’s really unkind
& then say that I’m gonna pray more for them.
Ya. I know.
Again, feel free to imagine self-righteous eyes rolling.

That whole shutting my mouth in public needs some work.
Let’s be serious.
Shutting my mouth anywhere is quite a feat.

Look for the good in them.
There has got to be some good.
& then, move on spreading love & joy.

Or maybe even,
Look for ways that I can show kindness & love
to those who have just been wounded.

I have found,
that in any situation,
you should just ask yourself,

OK.
I mean,
I need to ask myself,
“What would love do?
And, in this situation,
what would kindness look like?”

Just focus on love & joy.

I was not created to fix everyone else.
Good grief!
I wasn’t created to fix anyone else.

I was created to love.
That’s it!!
Not bigger!
Not smaller!
Not more complicated than that.

Just love.

The other thing I know that I need to do,
For my life to be full & positive.
For it to have beautiful meaning.
Is to look for the joy.

There have been too many days where I have not felt well.
An Autumn cold,
An almost no-sleep panic attack nite.
Those days when my relationship with the couch
Borders on obsession.
The ones when I sleep & sleep & sleep
Days, when it’s an accomplishment to shower & put on clothes.

On days when I’m feeling sad or sick
Or others when the harvest cannot happen
I consciously ask myself,
Is there anything in this
Miserable,
Gray,
Snowing again day,
Before the harvest is done day
Where can I find joy?

And there it is!

One of our International kids sends a picture.
I get a text message filled with love.
& a ridiculous one that makes me
Laugh Out Loud! (LOL)

My Randy tells me how sweet I look.

The sun peaks out just before it sets
& turns my sky pink…
& then she sends me…

“Look, Char! Pink heaven for you!”

Pink heaven indeed!!

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Here I am again!

Good Grief!! It’s Been Over 2 Months!!

I have sooo missed connecting with you all.
My last Love Note was in May.
I’ve missed chattering with you
I’ve missed reading your comments.

But I’m back &
Today I wanna talk about changes &
How we can make them less intimidating.

While New Years Day brings great hoards of soon-to-be-broken resolutions
& we tend to want to start everything fresh…
like exercise & eating right,
Blah. Blah. Blah.

I actually love this time of year, so much more,
for the changes that happen.

New Years Day, we have snow & cold,
That has been happening for almost 2 months,
& will be happening for another 3 months, for sure.
Not really a big change.

But the end of August,
It’s been toasty warm.
There’s been time for bare feet &
Iced tea on the deck.

Now the days are getting shorter,
The evenings getting cooler.
Tank tops & shorts change into ‘bunny hugs’ & jeans.
Flip-flops get kicked aside by high-top sneakers.

[Note: ‘Bunny Hugs’ are Saskatchewan’s name for hoodies – or sweatshirts with a hood.]
Sooo cute!!

Only weeks ago, the fields were a patchwork quilt

The wheat was dressed in John-Deere-green,
Swishing & dancing in the wind.

The lemon-yellow flowers of the canola crop, 8262019 field
Were calling out, “come & play in the sun!”

While alfalfa’s gentle purple blossoms tried
hiding in her lush green leaves.

And here we are,
Harvest starts to happen.

The fields of wheat now blow softly like sunset waves along the ocean.
Canola lays down in fat & fluffy swaths as if to protect the mice from the hawks.
Alfalfa has become a muted green skirt,
surrounding the bee’s adorable gazebo style condos.

O my!
The season for toasty bunwiches while driving equipment
Or full-blown field meals, has arrived.

I LOVE the meals shared at our table!
But O!!
The field meals!
They are the best!!

8262019 char cookNow, just like I babbled on about in “A Dish of Delish”,
a field meal is where totally delish type food & chairs are loaded into a pick-up truck.

This pink-haired-mama pops into said pick-up
& sizzles out to the field where combines are purring,
the grain cart is bee-bopping &
the truckers are buzzing with loads of grain.

These meals are in reality,
a harvest-meal tail gate party…
in the field.

The end gate is dropped.
The dishes, drinks & mouth-watering food are set out.
The equipment stops, in an impressive line.
The plates are loaded.
God is thanked.
Chatter & laughter rolls in waves,
just like the breeze gently swishing our golden fields of wheat
for a-zillion-loaves-of-bread to feed the world.

Aaahhh…’tis harvest time.

And then there is the new school year coming right up.
I used to love ‘back-to-school’.
It always meant at least one new outfit. Yay!!!
Time to see our friends again.

Mom got really happy for September!
Whew!!
Was that really only 2 months long? LOL!

 

The year I graduated I was getting ready to head off to college in another province.
Mom was sewing me great new outfits.
I was wearing out the pages of the old Sears catalogue
Designing our dorm-room.

I’d talked to my room mate & we decided to make it colorful.
My soft chenille bedspread was a fabulous turquoise blue &
& hers, a gorgeous bright orange.
The co-ordinating rug between our beds was –
Are you ready???
A lush green shag, with huge spots of turquoise & orange.
What an exciting new start!

 

This is also the time of year when I start thinking about my winter projects.
Cool things I’d like to do.
Or paint.
Or re-arrange.
Or throw away.

An exercise I’ve done so often when considering doing some thing new involves answering 6 questions.
For me it has always helped to calm my fears about making a change
& to make me feel like I was more in control.

1.What is one change you are considering making?

2.What would you gain from making this change or taking this risk?

3.What are the worst things that could happen if you did this & it turned out badly? (What have you got to lose)?

4.If the worst thing happened, then what could you do?

5.How can you adjust the risk/change if it is too much of a gamble?

6.What will happen if you don’t take this risk/make the change?

To illustrate, I want to share a real-life example of one of our trainees, with her permission of course.
She’s a beautiful Austrian girl.

1.What is one change you are considering making?
Quitting my job & going to a farm in Canada for 8 or 9 months to help care for the children & to cook.

2.What would you gain from making this change or taking this risk?
New life experience & possibly new friends. It could be lots of fun!

3.What are the worst things that could happen if you did this & it turned out badly? (What have you got to lose?)
* I’ve only done a little baking & made lasagna for my family so, it would be bad if no one eats my cooking, if the children cry every time I come in the room & if the farm family would be mean to me or hate me & tell me to leave. That would be a huge waste of money.
* I do not find another job back home for many months. That would also be a big loss of money.
* My friends will not let me be their friend anymore.
* My boyfriend breaks up with me because he found a new girlfriend while I was gone.
* I gain weight because Canadian food might be different & I may not be able to do my work-outs every day.

4.If the worst thing happened, then what could you do?
Go home to my family, where I live, & start all over.

5.How can you adjust the risk/change if it is too much of a gamble?
* Use a reputable organization to do my trainee experience with.
* Be sure that I have all of the phone numbers & emails for the organizations at home & in Canada & make sure my family has them, as well.
* Communicate by email/messaging/skype with the farm family before coming & then also with my family, friends & boyfriend while I am in Canada.
* Be sure I have a credit card & money in the bank for emergency travel if required.

6.What will happen if you don’t take this risk/make this change?
I will be very disappointed with myself & always wonder what could have been.

 

Just yesterday, I asked our sweet Austrian daughter, what 2 things she had learned about herself by coming to Canada as a trainee.

“I learned to love myself. That it doesn’t matter how you look, if you are thin, or a little bit curvy. The only thing that matters is yourself – that I feel comfortable with myself.

And do not be afraid to do something that others do not think you can do.

That real love & friends will be with you also, after being away from home awhile.

And that Canadian people are the friendliest people in the world – at least the ones I got to know.”

O! By the way…

Thru experience, she learned to cook superbly –
In fact, everyone put on a few pounds!
The children all fell in love with her.
Seriously! We all fell in love with her.

Several of our International kids have met their true loves –
Not Canadian true loves -
But Sweethearts from their own country or a country right beside them –
While here in our Canada.
Now. That, was worth the risk!!!
XOXOXOXOXO!!

Next time you’re thinking about making a change,
Big or small,
Go thru the exercise.
It’ll help.

I’ve used it when changing jobs.
I even did it when I met My Randy
& was deciding if this little City Slicker would become a Farmer’s Wife.
Let me tell you…
That was an awesome decision!

8262019 be youThe good news is,
That even though I’m short -
When this pink hair pops up in the snow,
Or a lemon-yellow canola field,
Or the green & gold of wheat,
My Honey Bear can always find me.
Yay!!

That exercise eh?
Hhhmmm…let’s see??
Should I re-decorate the library this fall??

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