Sound & Color Album by Alabama Shakes | Taz Records

The ultimate favourite thing of the summer is our record player and my first vinyl I purchased for myself ‘Sound & Color’ by Alabama Shakes.

SPF 40 Tinted Moisturizer by Origins | Sephora

I adore this moisturizer and love that I can put it on and know that my face has coverage from the sun before I go out.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson | Chapters

A perfect summer read if you enjoy the intricacies and antics of families. These reads often give me a good laugh, a nod of understanding and if they are done right a sense of solidarity along with entertainment. Jenny did just that.

White Birkenstock Flip Flops | Softmoc

Admittedly I have had the same silly blue flip flops from Old Navy since I was 20. After 14 years I felt it was time to retire them. They were quite literally falling apart. I replaced them with these. Hopefully a solid pair of flip flops for pool / beach days.

T3 Single Pass Curl 0.75 inch Barrel Iron | Sephora

Over the past year I have committed to a shorter hair style. I enjoy the ease and lack of fuss it makes me feel, that being said, it unfortunately meant that my barrel iron I would use for waves or curls was too big for shorter hair. Hopefully this is a one and done purchase.

Pocket Rocks | White Point Beach

Every summer we go to White Point Beach to spend a week in the sand, waves and under the stars of its natural beauty. I always look for a token from that year and these were the precious stones I found and brought back with me to carry for the year.

Impala Pastel Fade Roller Skates | Zumiez

Considering my love for Figure Skating, I’m not sure why it took me this long to pick up roller skating. Albeit there is a learning curve to skating on wheels verses a blade, I am absolutely loving the challenge and getting such a joy out of these beautiful skates. During the pandemic I have missed skating on ice, which I am hoping to do more of this autumn/winter season, but knowing that I have a pair of rollers I can practice with during the winter months in my basement is giving me so much joy.

White Point Beach Resort Mug | White Point Beach Resort

After celebrating our first honeymoon, baby moon, reunion after time apart, our 10th anniversary and booking yet another family at this resort it only made sense that we would bring home mugs to remind ourselves at our desks of the moments we continue to share as a family at this beautiful place. We are head over heels for the days we spend at this place.

Lover Sweater | Poppy & Olive

I walked by this sweater on the outside sale rack and my heart instantly leapt. I rarely make impulse purchases, but when I do, it’s because something spoke to every part of me. This sweater sums me up in a nut shell.

Heart of the Wolf Necklace | Pyrrha

This beautiful necklace came into my awareness through a best friend who has come to know my ins and outs sometimes even better than myself. I had been eyeing her necklaces for months wondering about them and their meaning. A simple shy question turned into a huge deep dive into the Pyrrha website and finding one that was symbolic to me. Heart of the Wolf is symbolic of all that has been misunderstood about my own intelligence over the years and how much I have stepped into my own confidence of who I am and that my own strength does not mean I loose any part of my deep compassion and tenderness for those around me. I love that Pyrrha is a sustainable Canadian company and that their foundations is that from collective inspiration.

Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid

Every summer an avid reader generally hopes to land a good ‘summer/beach read’. Malibu Rising delievers in every single way.
I thoroughly enjoy the descriptions of this novel along with the generational stories that get developed.

White Point Beach Resort on a foggy morning.

To celebrate our 10th anniversary and to create memories, we spent the majority of a week at White Point Resort this summer. It was everything we needed and more.

The time as a couple to connect intentionally and romantically outside of the life we have been working hard for was healing and I am not unaware of what a huge privilege it is that we could set aside the time to make that happen.

It’s easy to think that we are capable of this endless wheel of meeting the needs of our jobs, our friends and family without those margin moments but it’s simply not true. If anything the pandemic has taught us, is that having ‘pause’ can create space for something altogether different.

Pause is scary.

Being alone, without the people, the hustle, the bustle is sometimes nerve wracking.

We have our lives so perfectly ordered to create the background noise just the way we like to hear it, but eventually that background noise becomes undelt with trauma, over worked, over wrought and simply a lack of peace soul with the way things are as they are.

This vacation felt like the rope I was so clearly trying to grasp and articulate.

I

CAN’T

DO

IT

ALL.

I

CAN’T

BE

THE

SOLUTION

TO

ANY

ONE

PERSONS

NEEDS.

I

WASN’T

MADE

TO

LIVE

OFF

OF

NOTHING

BUT

EXPECTATIONS

AND

SCHEDULES.

I

WAS

MADE

TO

FLY

AND

LAUGH.

*spoiler alert: this is no new news.

No one was made to fully fulfill another person.
We are individually born as whole and solo beings.

We can be blessings to each other.
We can be the refreshing rain on the soil of another spirit.

We cannot be the sun.
We cannot be expected to exist simply to glorify anything but the One who made us.

What does this mean?

It means we do our best to honour and work to hone the life we are called into.

If you are privileged enough to carve out time and space for you to exhale somewhere quiet, I hope you find yourself a little corner of a moment to sit and listen to the lifeline rope you are holding on to and listen to what it is saying.

These are the things we hear loud and clear, yet need the time to fully see what it is we have been aching over.

A snippet of our October.

White Point Beach Resort

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And the moments in-between.