Tag: Memories
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Day 25: Birthday!

Your favourite birthday or celebration. I like birthdays. I like throwing birthday parties. Specifically, children’s birthday parties. When my son was small, starting with his first birthday, I started planning and throwing fairly elaborate parties. Handmade invitations, decorations, cakes. His first was Pocoyo. Second – Mega Blocks. Third – dinosaurs. Fourth – race cars. Fifth…
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Day 24: Happy Memories
Happy memories from your favourite get together! Over the years, there have been some good get togethers. With friends, with family, so picking some memories wasn’t hard – filtering through them and picking one set was difficult. Many years ago, my Dad & Step Mom used to plan a family camping trip to a nearby…
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Day 21: Impossible
Something you’ve overcome that once felt impossible. I have some health challenges. Generally, I don’t speak about them too often. Not ‘publicly’ at any rate. Privately, amongst my family, I will sometimes complain, generally about pain, but that’s often because I suffer from chronic pain and it is very plain to see when I’ve gone…
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Day 20: Life experience
A unique positive life experience you’ve had. This may seem a little weird at first, but stick with me… I’ve mentioned before I was married when I just weeks before I turned 23, divorced at 24. I mentioned my (ex) mother-in-law was quite the pickle of a lady who, for the most part, despised me.…
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Day 18: Chances
A chance you got that not everyone gets. There are many things in life that one gets a ‘chance’ to do! A trip, a job, an education… But what did I get a chance to do that not everyone does. For me? This meant my education. Why? Because of my husband. There are a lot…
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Day 17: Thoughtfulness
The most thoughtful thing someone’s done for you. This goes back a long time… Many (many) years ago, someone made me a “PMS Survival Kit”. While I don’t recall all of the contents, I know it had some of my most favourite and needed things in it… Sour cream and onion chips, green olives, Tylenol,…
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Day 16: Talent (posted late)
Talents you’ve been complimented on. The problem with identifying something like this is I end up feeling kind of weird. I am not so good at receiving compliments about stuff I am good at. It makes me quite uncomfortable when people point out things I do well. Now, I do have some talents, a few…
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Day 14: An Impossible Goal
A goal you reached that once felt impossible. Attending post secondary school. As a high-school drop-out with sub-par grades, I honestly once felt attending any kind of post secondary education was well beyond my ability. I spent most of my high school career believing I was far too stupid to ever get beyond “Do you…
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Day 13: Surprises
The sweetest surprise someone planned for you. I love surprises. Like a lot. I have always liked to plan surprises, the problems is, not many people I know like surprises! So, I plan small ones. Dates, gifts, anything I think might make people smile. Surprises are my thing, not so much that of those around…
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Day 11: Memories
A memory that makes you smile. This time last year, as a prelude to my fiftieth birthday, I was counting down memories… Fifty of them! So coming up with a memory outside of those wasn’t really hard but those were so carefully thought of and written about because they were significant to my life. Today…