One year ago… I was sitting in my living room surrounded by boxes & boxes, 📦 about to move 2200+ km across Canada with 2 teenagers & 2 cats into a house we’d purchased online, but hadn’t seen in person yet!

It was a huge leap of faith moving back out here. 🙏🏻 We had lived in Cape Breton Island almost 5 before and I didn’t last very long. Homesickness & depression kicked in fiercely & I wanted nothing more than to simply get “home” with the ones I loved. I was so desperate to just ‘get home’. We only lasted (and by we, I mean “me”) 4 1/2 months in Cape Breton last time and flew home on Christmas morning.

This time though, in our own home, surrounded by wonderful neighbours, in a tiny, quiet town, living a slow life, life is good. I am grateful. I do miss my friends & family, but thankfully there’s face time, phone calls, texting & airplanes. I’m at peace, I love it here, it’s a whole different lifestyle out here, and I didn’t go through any homesickness or depression this time! I think my husband is relieved as he never wanted to leave last time!

Schools and many businesses were closed today, or closing early. It’s really snowing & blowing, I think that by the time my husband gets up for work he’s going to be in for a nasty surprise. And this snow is wet, and very heavy.

We did our grocery shopping very early (7am) & some of our errands before the snow started to get bad. I have finished working for the day, so now i’m sitting here enjoying a coffee, working on the blog post I started this morning. The laundry is on, but I should probably start dinner shortly.

My daughter’s hair appointment was bumped until tomorrow so we’ll drop off our donation to the thrift store (3 boxes!! yay!!) & do our library run tomorrow as well. I know the library has a couple of books in for me but I forget which ones, so it’ll be a nice surprise!

I guess that’s it for today, not a very exciting post I know. *wink* I hope everyone had a great day!

I am feeling every bit of my almost 49 years today… I know my body is going through all sorts of things at my age right now, but honestly it is hell’ish some days. I suppose that’s just the joy of being a woman. I did have a good (aka: productive) day today, although i’ve been pretty sore, especially my back, but thankfully i’m still getting stuff done, although it’s slowly.

I worked on some wallets with a gorgeous new “Tim Holtz” fabric that landed in my mailbox this morning… (photo below) I managed to get a good chunk done and think I *may* try to put in another hour or so after I eat my dinner. Truthfully, I should just listen to my body and save it for tomorrow though. Things have been slow with my business, like many others right now, so I need to try to keep things moving as much as I can. My body hurts when I sew a lot, but I guess that’s just how it goes isn’t it?

I went for a walk with my daughter this afternoon as the sun was shining all day until sunset. By 4:30pm it’s pretty much pitch black here, and my body wants to slow down. I try to respect that, but it’s hard sometimes. We popped into Sobeys for a few things, I was hoping to find my chocolate as I was craving a chocolate bar, there seems to be only one chocolate bar on earth I seem to not be allergic to, Enjoy Life bars, but they were out of my kind. So, no treat for me.

The girls had BBQ pulled pork for dinner tonight with buns & salad. I grabbed the pork last week with a $5 off sticker slapped on it, so it’s a filling meal at a good price point. My husband will eat the leftovers in the morning when he’s home from work. I rarely eat the same thing as they do, due to food allergies

Tomorrow will be a busy day, we need to run errands, grocery shop, my youngest has a hair appt, we have a few boxes (donation) to drop off, and I need to stop by the library as well. The weather isn’t supposed to be nice tonight or tomorrow though, so we’ll see how this pans out. I hate going out when it’s icy. A handful of years ago I wiped out on black ice, gave myself a concussion, 2 black eyes, broken nose & sprained wrists) so that’s made me a little gun-shy in bad winter weather.

Ok, well, I got a little sidetracked with this post, wandered off and had to deal with some PM’s etc… now it’s going on 7:30pm and I forgot I need to fix a pair of my husbands work pants and get a few other things done around the house as well. And i’ve had no time to read yet, and i’d really like to read!

So i’m off for the night… I guess it’s a very random post today, sorry about that! Have a great night!

How was your day?