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Reinvention

April 19, 2018

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So this happened, as I sat back and didn’t do my part. As my family and friends stepped up and showed up when I just couldn’t get myself to. Because this year I flipped the switch. I shut it off. I decided that all the other shit, (the stuff that doesn’t actually matter in the grand scheme of things) took precedence. I decided that my grief was on the bench while I navigated the “normal”. But Grief had other plans. It disguised itself as tiredness and temper. It showed up as stress and overwhelm. It told me that I deserved the food and the wine and it let me off the hook from the workout I had committed to doing. It pretended to be the changes at work, and it was sprinkled over every excuse. And as I unmasked it, I realized that my mental health and my grief aren’t two separate parts of the puzzle that is me, they are the same part. I will never have good mental health without facing my grief head on, and I can guarantee that bad mental health will have grief woven into it. So I took a back seat to fundraising. If I’m being honest, I didn’t even get in the car. And you amazing humans that donated, and Pierre who is a fundraising machine, and my sister and mom who took care of all of the communication and organization, you all made sure that I wasn’t going to look back on the 2019 Race for the kids and regret not making an impact, not honouring my girl, not showing up. There is no greater show of love. Thank you ❤️ #loveforlilee #loveforlileesmommy #rbcraceforthekids #bcchf

Get you a Mom who looks at you the way my Mom looks at beer. 🍻 Everything changes. People change, they move, they have kids, they change jobs, the change cities, they change countries. All life is in a constant state of change. You taught us that change is inevitable and that change is good, even when it might not seem like it. You gave us the freedom to make our own choices and let us wander to wherever our inner compass told us we needed to go, without guilt of leaving and without judgement. You have given us the gift of Independence and the self confidence to take on this crazy world. But most importantly you gave us somewhere we could always land when everything else gets to be too much. You gave us you; you are our home. With change surrounding us, you showed us that the important things will never change, like family and love, and that we can always, ALWAYS, come home (wherever that may be - like Mexico when you are in Mexico, or Edmonton when you are visiting Edmonton, though I would prefer Mexico...). We don’t need a house full of decades worth of memories. All we need is you. Thank you for always giving me somewhere to land, thank you for being my home. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I love you.

The greatest story always told. @_kampy47

Gloomy Tuesday weather has me reminiscing about this dreamy vineyard in England. YEP. You heard that right, the UK wine industry is an actual thing, AND it’s a bloody brilliant thing at that!

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