Sentence a Day: October Edition

I am finally linking up with the lovely Leslie from Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After for their reflections of their own months.  It's been busy over here with just day to day life. Here is what I've October looked like for me in a sentence a day.  

Oct. 1st Hello Friday!!!  I have to be honest, I felt that September was a 100 days long so I am so ready to turn the page. 

Oct.2nd I had three fall photoshoots this morning with three amazing families, followed by a 10km Step Up For Mental Health run with my husband and a visit with good friends.  A full day! 

Oct. 3rd We celebrated my nephews birthday and discovered  we are having a niece in 2022!

Oct.4th A busy Monday signaling a long week ahead.  

Oct.5th Pushed out photo galleries to clients after work.

Oct. 6th Today I was a guest teacher in our grade four classroom and it was a blast.  Also started the day off with a treadmill run which felt great.

Oct. 7th A day full of appointments, dentist, chiropractor and dry needling.

Oct .8th Hello Friday of the long weekend.  I've been looking forward to you.

Oct. 9th I started the day off doing photos for a great friend and then late afternoon I did another photoshoot for a much larger family.  My little business has been growing quite a bit in the last 6 months.  And by growing I mean just enough so I can manage it while working full time and doing all the other things. 

Oct.10th What a beautiful morning!  My BFF and I started the day off with an 11.5 km run.  Then we went adventuring with Oreo and took Halie to horseback riding.  We ended our Sunday with a Thanksgiving meal with my parents and grandma.  So much to be thankful for. 

Oct.11th. Last day of the long weekend and I just love the feeling of checking off all the things on my list, or pretty close to checking them all off.

Oct.12th I had my dry needling appointment and I think it's making a difference.  Have you tried dry needling?  I'll be honest it's not pleasant, especially where the muscles are crazy tight but I am finally getting mobility without pain in my back.  

                              Uncomfortable treatment = less painful daily life.

Oct.13th dropped off some consignment at Belong Lifestyle and getting excited for book club.

Oct.14th Book Club/Wine club.  I love getting together with these ladies.  Our book this time was Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad  and it was an inspirational read.  It's a story of getting a heartbreaking diagnosis in young adulthood, then being confined to a hospital for over several years and then finally trying to rejoin "normal" life. 

Oct.15th I love short work weeks and I am all here for it!!!!  Woot! Woot!

Oct. 17th I spent the morning taking photos of a beautiful family down by the river bank.  I love this time of year for photographs. 

Oct.18-22 I worked, cooked, drove kids around and tried to manage life.  Honestly it's just so busy right now that I can't even keep up to write a sentence a day.  LOL.

Oct.22nd Fridays have me feeling wiped after a work week.  Logan and I cuddled up and watched three Outer Banks episodes. What are you watching on Netflix.

Oct.23rd The girls decorated pumpkins!  I am so thankful they still want to do these things with us.  It's much easier these days, we can just sit nearby while they do the work.

Oct. 24th A cold, wet and blustery morning meant that I didn't get outdoors for my run but rather enjoyed a quite morning catching up on my blog which I've  neglected terribly these last few weeks.  It was soooooo nice. 

Oct. 27th I finally had a visit with a sweet friend.  We went for a walk and then chatted for like an hour and a half in the hot tub.  

Oct. 28th Today we celebrated Halloween in my PreK class!   I dressed up as Belle and they loved it.  I always enjoy seeing their various costumes and talking about Halloween leading up to it.  I was dead tired that night and crashed at like 9 p.m.

Oct. 29th Friday leading into a busy weekend full of Halloween fun.

Oct. 30th Halie had a get together with her friends at our house.  The girls decided to go as Mean Girls.  

Oct. 31st Halloween is finally here!  Today it was Anya's turn to host her friends for pizza before going out trick or treating.  Halloween 2021 is in the bag.  

And that's a wrap.  I feel like Christmas is really going to come up quick and I am a little nervous about it to be honest.  

What were some of your October highlights?

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January Sentence a Day Edition

1st - Welcome 2021!!!!!  A beautiful morning calls for a cross country skiing with my love. 
2nd-  So far winter has been a gift to us.  Morning ☕, 5 km walk and visit with a dear friend.  Then an afternoon skate with my family on our local pond.  It was full of people, COVID safe, but so beautiful to see.

                                    


3rd - Sunday means holidays are almost over.  It was sadly time to take down or tree and Christmas decorations.  Everyone was feeling a little mellow.

                                             

4th - Back at works with my munchkins!  I had so much fun!

5th -  My daughter had her first riding lesson at her new stables.  It's a beautiful in place and she was thrilled to be back on her horse.
 
6th -- Thankful Thursday.  Today my gratitude was pretty easy to come to.  Sometimes I really have to dig deep but today it was hard to choose just three.  

#1 I was happy to be Canadian.  

#2 Thankful for the glorious winter weather we've been experiencing.  

#3 My cleaner makes work/life balance attainable.  

#4 Best day off work!  Sledding, creative play and a great staff meeting! 

#5 Oh and a kick ass workout after work.

                                           

8th- It's Friday and we make it through the first week of routine. 

9th- Someone got her belly button pierced!  No, not me!  LMAO.  My almost 14 year old.  

                                       

10th- A first for us.  Snowshoeing with the family.

                             

11th- Just another manic Monday 😉
 
12th - Sledding with my students all afternoon brought me so much joy.
 
13th - A storm was brewing all day.  The winds overnight were just over 100km and did some damage but by the morning we were off to work.
 
14th -  A long day means a bath and some wine.

 
15th - Family movie night.  When I saw the scene below set in the future, who would have guessed this would be our world 3 years after its release. 

16th - Celebrating Halie birthday with a couple of friends at laser tag!

 
17th -  Just call me "dance" mom.  Today was filled with hair, makeup and dance costumes.  The girls had a COVID friendly videotaping of the dance routines they've been working on.  The studio will edit and compile the footage for a zoom family show and some of the proceeds will be donated to our Ronald McDonald House here in Saskatoon!

 
18th- Oh so tired.
 
19th- So much fun today with my students using large and small tree sticks to make representations of tree and then they were encouraged to record their learning by drawing and telling me a story about it. 

 
20th- Date night with my bestie.  So good to chat, laugh and be without someone who knows you inside and out. 
 
21st- Coming home to a clean house has been the greatest gift ice ever given myself to. Do you have a house cleaner?
 
22nd - What a day.  My class is going into isolation so I'll be teaching online for the next two weeks. 
 
23rd - Good news.  I don't have to isolate, as I wasn't deemed a close contact.  I am so happy to still get to be with my family.
 
24th - Baby it's cold outside.  Whit mascara trend.

25th My baby girl turned 14!!!  We did celebrate by going out as a family to a restaurant of her choice. 
 

26th - 4 miles in 39 minutes for the win today!  Felt so good to get back to it after a few days off from running. 
27th - Zoom book club was a blast.  We laughed.  We tackled tough topics.  And we had wine.  

 
28th Packing up for a family weekend at the lake.  Looking forward to lazy mornings, reading, puppy cuddles, walks in the woods and hopefully a cross country ski. 
 
29th Finally a break from -40 C and back to just a cold winter.  This meant going for an early morning run with my friend Amber. 

30th & 31st Both mornings at the lake brought ski adventures.  I was able to connect with my husband and a friend from grad school while enjoying the beautiful winter wonderland of Candle Lake.  Pretty sweet way to end the first month of the year.

Overall a pretty good month when I look back on it.  Honestly, I was feeling a little down on January until I compiled all the wonderful things we did in January and now I see that it wasn't so bad at all.  Long.  Yes.  But good.  Since this post is going up instead of my usual Friday fashion post, here is a few favorite outfits from this past month. 

What are you taking away from January 2021?

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