This year I ran the CIBC Run for the Cure with a team. A team inspired by and included my two girlfriends who battled Breast Cancer and won. For the first time in a very long time I ran with somebody, my girlfriend S. S has only been running for a short while and I hadn’t run in two weeks due to colds and committments, so we thought we would tackle it together. Chatting the whole way it certainly didn’t feel like we ran 5k. If I can be honest, I could have kept going. S kept our pace and time and we finished in 35:40m which is amazing and dare I say we would have been a bit faster if we didn’t have to wade through the sea of people at the beginning. S took five minutes off her best time and I was just happy to run the whole way.
This is a photo of us at the finish line taken by JNBazinet Photography. Yes, we were that smiley. It was a gorgeous day for a run and for such a great cause. A huge thank you to all of my supporters together we can and will make a difference. Looking forward to next year already.
Not something I usually put out there on my blog, but this is really important to me.
I have entered the Silver Lining Committed Entrepreur Awards. This recognizes Entreprenueurs for their committment to growing their business. I need votes to make it to the top twenty, and then will need to be voted tot the top ten from there.
I have spent a lot of time this year committing to growing my Photography business and I feel that I have made huge strides. I committed myself to doubling my business back in January. I have now officially tripled my business from last year. And I have all of you to thank for encouraging me and being there in the beginning when I was just getting going.
Thank you all,
BeachMama
I need to shout out today, to all the Stay at Home Mom’s out there. There is no need to apologize or justify why you stay home. No need.
When talking to a girlfriend of mine this morning we were talking about rough nights and kids that need a lot of extra attention. It is a usual conversation between two Mom’s at least between Mom’s that I get to talk to in the morning. Then my girlfriend kind of apologized or explained that that is why she stays home with her children. And I was so shocked. I couldn’t believe that she felt the need to justify that to anyone. And so I told her so.
As the day went on today, I realized that many of us Stay at Home Mom’s do that. We feel like we should explain why we chose to give up careers or our life as we knew it to stay home and raise our children. I know that I do a lot of work from home, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that I am still home with my children. That I spend most of their waking time doing things for them and give up my ‘me’ time to work. I do this because I want to, not because I have to. What I have to do is be here for my children. And I am no longer going to justify that to anyone. No way , no how.
And I am challenging the rest of you ladies out there who stay home with your children to do the same. I thank my Mom regularly for being there for me during my school years when I really needed her. I hope that my children will thank me one day too.
