Arbonne Body Care and Cosmetics – Fundraising for MetoWe Camp!

I have been lucky enough to try Arbonne products thanks to numerous amazing ladies I am connected with on social media. Arbonne_® products are vegan-certified: their formulas are never tested on animals and do not contain animal-derived ingredients or animal by-products. Due to the growth in Metabolic disease and Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease this is very important to me and to those I care for. The chemicals being added by other companies are hurting our bodies in a toxic world.

To read about the products go to 
http://www.arbonne.ca/products/index.asp

To read about the company go to 
https://www.arbonne.ca/company/manifesto.asp

Megan wants to attend A Social Innovation for Change Camp this summer. This camp offers an amazing leadership opportunity that will be able to help Megan bring back to our community through volunteer work and other humanitarian efforts. Megan will be working with industry professionals to help her learn ways to create tangible changes. To learn more about this camp go to Me to We’s website.

http://www.metowe.com/motivation-leadership/take-action-camp/ontario-take-action-academy/#social-innovation-for-change-fostering-creative-and-innovative-ideas-for-positive-social-influence

Megan is 16 years old and a junior at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School The opportunity to attend this camp would mean the world to her as she looks towards a career in human rights law after fighting for 6 years with a chronic illness called Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease that left me in various states of extreme sickness throughout that time. She has impressed Investor’s Group enough so that they have given her a bursary to  cover some of the costs, but with me as a single mother she need help to raise the remaining funds. Human Rights are a huge passion for her and she will  make a difference in both the local and international community.

Janet Auty-Carlisle is a great friend that I have not had the pleasure of meeting in person but I have known on Social Media for a good 5 years. Whenever there has been an opportunity to support Megan and I in that time she has always stepped up and been wonderful.

Now she is offering to give Megan a nice percentage of all sales in May for Arbonne products purchased online with Janet’s Sales ID.

So if you want to help Megan and you want to help your body by using non toxic products go to

https://www.arbonne.ca/shop_online/shopOnline.asp

Orders can be placed in North America, United Kingdom and Australia. You will need to enter the 9 digit id 115726215 to get the fundraising donation to Megan.

Thank you in advance from your liver and from Megan!

 

Baking Fundraising for Me to We Camp!

Megan Clermont described this perfectly I have adjusted slightly.

Do you like baked goods and helping out a good cause?

For the month of May my daughter will be baking a variety of home baked cookies, breads, and cupcakes with all proceeds going towards fees for a Me to We Take Action Camp this summer. Prices for these items range from $1-$7.50 with a total of $500 needed to be raised for the cost of attendance.

This camp offers an amazing leadership opportunity that will be able to help Megan bring back to our community through volunteer work and other humanitarian efforts. Megan will be working with industry professionals to help her learn ways to create tangible changes. To learn more about this camp go to Me to We’s website.

http://www.metowe.com/motivation-leadership/take-action-camp/ontario-take-action-academy/#social-innovation-for-change-fostering-creative-and-innovative-ideas-for-positive-social-influence

Megan is 16 years old and a junior at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School The opportunity to attend this camp would mean the world to her as she looks towards a career in human rights law after fighting for 6 years with a chronic illness called Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease that left me in various states of extreme sickness throughout that time. She has impressed Investor’s Group enough so that they have given her a bursary to  cover some of the costs, but with me as a single mother she need help to raise the remaining funds. Human Rights are a huge passion for her and she will  make a difference in both the local and international community.

If you live in the GTA of Toronto Ontario or Southwestern Ontario we would be happy to deliver the baked goods to you. Sadly we can’t do this beyond that geographical area.  There will be 2 days that deliveries will be made to the Toronto area. This offer is limited to the month of May 2013.

In order to support Megan in this amazing opportunity please go to the attached order form and fill out your information and order request and submit to have it sent to Megan.

https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=PbKTYKRgo2IZr23pmmLnIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally 2013 looking much better!!

2013 has been a rough year personally with broken bones ruling my life! As of April 12, 2013 we finally got the news that Megan’s toe was healing and she would not require surgery

Over the last couple of weeks my rib has healed enough that I rarely feel the pain unless i am stretching that specific area.

I have seen Megan walking down the stairs without crutches, climbing up the stairs without having to crawl.

She is still reliant somewhat on the chair in the shower but is standing to wash most of her body and her need for me is reducing dramatically.

We have gone out without her wheelchair! We have replaced the air cast with very high quality doc marten’s to provide the added support for her foot. But at least she feels more human!

Alex returned from Halifax completing his first year of university it has matured him so much and he is flourishing in that setting.  I got to meet his beautful girlfriend Beth. They are perfect together and were together for most of this school year. Sadly Beth is from England and had a year in Canada which ends at the end of May when she will return home and the relationship will end. This relationship will likely be the one they both look back on and compare every other relationship too as they start meeting other people. I am so happy for them for experiencing this together and I know Alex will not settle for less than what he had with Beth and I hope the same for Beth. You both deserve happiness and don’t settle for less.

Alex has struggled with finding a job in the last year. This is not unusual for students, the economy is very very hard on young adults who are looking for work. The jobs they apply for are also being applied for by adults who are underemployed and need more money.  Alex started watching job ads and saw one for a Caulking company looking for a student for the summer. He contacted them and met with them and he has now officially started working for the summer at 14 dollars per hour which is awesome for a summer job and will make returning to university in the fall so much easier!

For Megan I am always watching for opportunities to enrich her life experience. As she is not in school very much due to health over the last 5 years i try to make sure there is always something to look forward to, always something to fight for.  In February I was looking at the WE DAY website and I found
http://www.metowe.com/
 On this site their were summer camps with leadership streams that would be so perfect for Megan. But they are 900 for a week and there would be no way I could pay for her to attend.  I noticed that there was a bursary option with investors group and I looked into that. Megan would need to write about why she wanted to attend the camp and what she hoped to get out of it. She needed 2 other letters of recomendations. I wrote one easily talking about why Megan deserves this and her school guidance counsellor also wrote a nice letter for her.

We forgot about it for the month of April , had no idea how many kids would apply for a bursary , whether there was any shot for Megan to attend. We focussed on getting Megan walking and her toe! On April 30, 2013 Megan got a voice mail from MetoWe for her to call them. Megan and I looked at each other and i know i caught my breath thinking would they call if She DID NOT get a bursary…talked myself into that they would want to thank every student for their efforts.

Megan called them on May 1. Not only had she qualified for a bursary she qualified for the highest amount they have ever given a student from Investors group! She was given 400 dollars towards the 900.00 cost of this camp.  This is going to be so incredible for Megan, It will be in August just before she returns to school and I know she will be so inspired! They are not allowed to bring electronics and have to focus on the program. This is the program she will attend

 

Offered weeks one (July 7-13) and four (August 4-10)

This program is designed for youth who are interested in tackling problems in a new creative way that can help foster positive social change. Social Innovation focuses on providing youth with the skill set of a successful “innovator” Youth will develop not only leadership skills and a better understanding of the issues the world is facing, but creative thinking, idea generation, and collaboration skills–all important for producing ideas that change the world.

This stream will:

• Develop campers’ leadership  and life skills, including communication, collaboration, planning and decision making

• Provide a  deeper understanding of the role that social innovation is playing in reshaping the way we look at social justice issues

• Develop the skill set of a social innovator, including:  creating  social capital , networking, generating creative solutions to problems, coming to terms with and dealing with failure  and fostering the self-motivation to carry out and implement an idea

• Creating a blueprint of a business plan that uses these skills to have a positive impact on the local and global community

Ideal for participants who:

• Have an interest in business

• Are creative, forward-thinking and solution orientated

• Are passionate about a range of social justice issues

 

Stay tuned tomorrow as I share the ideas for how we will fundraise 500.00 for the rest of the cost of this camp in the month of May.

Brimming with Happiness here today!!

 

 

Guest Post – Heather Von St. James – Wife and Survivor of Mesothelioma

Heather asked if I could share her story and I am more than happy to!!

Heather Von St. James
Courageous Mother, Wife and Survivor of Mesothelioma

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
-Mark Twain

I hear it often from people, how brave I am and how much courage I have. Sometimes I just have to laugh, because, going through what I’ve been through with my mesothelioma battle, I don’t feel very brave. At times, the fear was so overwhelming, all I could do was cry out to God to help me. I would love to say that through the last 7 years, I’ve learned to conquer my fears. After all, Lungleavin Day, our celebration of the anniversary of my extrapleural pneumonectomy surgery, is all about overcoming fears. But I still have my moments, more often than I would like to admit. I have the usual fears creep in, my “scanxiety” I’ve blogged about before, little pangs of fear before I fly, but the biggest fear I struggle with is the fear of something happening to my daughter. This is something that has plagued me since she was born.

I’ve always had what I jokingly call puke-aphobia and, with having a kid, you know it something you have to deal with. This year has been particularly brutal on the gastroenteritis front for my poor Lily. Three times she has been sick this year in as many months. When she got sick the third time, the fear reared its ugly head in a big bad way. So much that I took her to the doctor and insisted he do a battery of tests to rule out anything. The thing I was most afraid of? Yep, cancer. Having dealt with cancer myself, and knowing so many others, my hypochondriac mind went right to the worst-case scenario. My husband, bless his heart, is always able to bring me back around to reasonable thinking. Although he understands why I go to the worst-case scenario, he doesn’t indulge it, and his voice of sound reason helps so much to calm me. Except in this case. I could not shake the feeling that something was seriously wrong. Turns out he was right. She is a perfectly healthy 7-year-old little girl. Every single test came back as normal as normal as could be and, for some reason, she has just gotten sick a lot this year.

The fear is crippling. The anxiety it causes makes my life miserable and those around me even more so. It is something that I have vowed to work on this year to not let the fear get out of control. Someone told me once that the word “FEAR” is an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real”, and when you think about it? It is TRUE!! The fear is almost always worse than what I’ve imagined and blown out of proportion in my mind. I did something this time that was not easy for me to do. I asked for help from people who I trust and admire, and their guidance and prayer really helped me overcome this obstacle. They gave me some tools to use to stop the cycle and basically send that fear packing. Frankly, God is the one who gives me tremendous peace. I find that prayer and reading His word, writing scriptures that speak to me, and keeping them in a little notebook for my use is a way for me to keep grounded.

With Lungleavin Day coming up, the opportunity is here to write our fears on a plate and smash them into the fire, I’m going to once again take control of my emotions and overcome. I know I have the power to do it; sometimes it is just making the choice to do so.

I hope you too will do something on February 2nd to overcome your fears in the spirit of Lungleavin Day. If breaking a plate is over the top, I find that a paper plate works great, and burning it, or tearing it into hundreds of pieces. If you struggle with fear, no matter what it is, taking control, finding the root of it, and addressing it helps takes it away. I also find humor is a great way to conquer fear, hence “LUNGLEAVIN DAY” It was born out of the desire to make something funny out of something tragic. It is the day my lung left my body.

For this, my 7th Annual Lungleavin Day, I’m conquering fear by surrounding myself with amazing people and sharing our night with anyone who wants to join in. I hope you can join us. Go to my Facebook fan page to join the Lungleavin Day Event and we will be live webcasting on the night of February 2nd, 2013 6:00 pm to whenever the last plate is broken (Central time).

I hope you, too, find something healing about the day just like we do. Together, we will make 2013 fabulous.

Read more: http://www.mesothelioma.com/blog/authors/heather/fear.htm#ixzz2J0nHx1ru

Tears lots and lots of Tears!

Well since my last post where I told you all that I was taking some time for myself after determining that I had built a solid brick wall around my heart has been very interesting indeed.

Since November I have cried enough tears to fill a bathtub! I have salt stains on my face that will likely stick around for a while!  I cry about memories, I cry due to happiness, I cry for lost moments that should have happened.  When I am driving I find that songs will remind me of the man I am proud to call my boyfriend, best friend and the sweetest kindest man i have ever known. That will create tears of happiness and gratitude in my heart. I will share more about him another time. Suffice to say I am very happy.

I hear other songs and I will think about my kids and burst into tears. The nostalgia for christmas long ago when Alex used to cry on Christmas Eve because he couldn’t fall asleep and he was so worried and anxious that he was ruining christmas for every child in the world. I would read to him for hours and I would try so hard to calm him down. It took hours and that little boy truly was carrying the weight of the world in his heart. He is now 19 and I don’t think he had any trouble falling asleep christmas eve. But I would have been ready to cuddle him and settle him until he could fall asleep if he ever needs that again! Those tears are for days gone by and moments that I know will never be repeated but will always be in my heart.

Tears for the little abused girl that i was  have come too. I was such a strong smart friendly child and the world around me tried its hardest to squash me and destroy me. But my soul was stronger than that and I am so proud to say that no one in my life has ever had the power to destroy my inner strength and I can say with conviction. No one EVER will!

 

I cried when Toby chased snowflakes last night..just a couple tears but to see his joy and playfulness with something so basic reminds me why puppies and little children will always be my favorite things.

My Children both bought me gifts this year that absolutely mean the world to me.  Alex picked out a homemade scarf for me with all my favorite colours reflected in it! I adore it! Megan got me a really cute picture book with photo’s of dogs taken under water! Its amazing! She also got me a wonderful Sherpa Blanket that has been my best friend while I have been sick!

Underwater Dogs from Megan! Great Book!

 

 

Sherpa Blanket from Megan!

Alex’s gift to me

A Real Friend

In my life I have met 2 people like this. Who could read me completely from the moment we met. Who can see my walls and challenge me to to take them down to reveal the inner Michelle who is hidden to protect myself.

This is my thank you to them!

Sometimes you know that things are meant to be

Sometimes things just fit and no issues can you see

You can’t remember feeling this safe, this whole

They envelope your heart, your spirit your soul

They come in like a whisper and become every breath

Not with effort , not with pain, just comfort and peace

They have been here before , you know that is true

They know you to well, they can read every clue

Were they part of a life from long ago

Have they found you again to sooth your soul

Friends like this are so very rare

Never reject them , be brave and prepare

For the friendship so deep you can’t hide how you feel

They will see it , they will challenge it , make sure that its real

This is honest and pure, its acceptance we desire

They can see your dark side and your sweet side,

They can see your mistakes and celebrate your wins

They can give you a shoulder, they can wipe away tears

They can hold you so tight and they can eliminate fears

They make you see yourself as you really are

They call “LIES” to the inner voices that say you aren’t

This is your best friend, the one you should be

To yourself, to you, from inside your soul

They are external but a part of you

The best part of you

Hiding behind a wall – Shutting down emotionally

I have been experiencing an awakening of sorts over the last month. I have become aware that I shut myself down emotionally about 2 years ago for a number of reasons.

I have been very successful at doing presentations and showing my passion for causes I believe in, I have made many friends at the acquaintance level and I would say I am well liked in London, Ontario.

But I started realizing a few months ago that I do not cry in movies anymore and that was something both my kids would tell you they looked at me during movies for.

I have cried in the last month a fair amount, a lot of that is about my sister and my worry for her, some of that was stress related and has been dealt with. But most of it seems to be a crack in the brick wall that I put around myself a couple years ago.

I can place a couple reasons for that initial shutdown, first i lost a best friend and it hurt me deeply, making me not want to open myself up to anyone that much again.  Second, my child was sick and doctors and everyone was giving up on her, calling her a liar and I was constantly battling for her to never back down from any of the naysayers I knew my child was sick and no one would convince me otherwise.  3rd my choice in men had brought me nothing but heartbreak.

I know that shutting down emotionally happened gradually.  I remember complaining that I felt so alone , that no one was really there for me. But no one heard me. My child who was sick was suffering so much worse than I was so i swallowed those emotions down and eventually grew cold.

I know I shut down as a little girl, it was the only way to survive the drama and violence in the home around me.  If I didn’t let it bother me then I could withstand anything.

But I am not a child anymore and I am incredibly sad knowing that I left myself that way for 2 years as an adult. It did let me focus on my job and making a difference in the community. But if you ask me what I like or what my favorite things are right now , i truly have no idea.  I am a giver by nature I have always been good at reading other peoples needs and filling them.  This was again a critical skill in dealing with mentally ill parent and alcoholic parent you had to read the signals to know if you were safe to speak or if you needed to just disappear and hope they didn’t see you.

So I have to break the wall down, it will take a bit of time and it will not be easy. I will not run Ignite Health Ontario in February now that I have figured this out. It is time for me to find my own balance and open my spirit up to the world again. I need to focus on learning what makes me happy and how to balance myself now that my daughter is healthier and stronger.

I have been my own best friend and my own worst enemy in so many ways. I am my best friend in protecting who i love, and making a difference in community because I know those things make me very very happy.  Now its time to let tears flow, to appreciate myself and love myself. I am my worst enemy in disregarding my feelings and disregarding my own wants. I am my worst enemy in taking care of everyone but me.

I am sorry to those I have been cold too, I was not fully concious of this in myself and you have only seen a small sliver of who i really am. I hope you will stick around for the discovery.

Hugs

Michelle

Sometimes the world throws you a fast ball

I was happily feeling the glow and success of Ignite Health on October 24th. The event went so perfectly and I was so proud of my daughter. I was on a natural high feeling of success.

Less than 48 hours after the event I got a call that my only sister was dealing with a bad case of depression, she essentially hit the bottom and I went to see her the next day. It was very hard to see my little sister completely broken. She is fighting back and getting good help. I know she will be so much better moving forward and I am very proud of her.

My work environment also seemed to become toxic around the same time, bullying and power struggles seemed to be impacting me and the team I work with. It became difficult to face being at the office for a few weeks.

My daughter had a terrible weekend and stopped seeing a reason to keep fighting, she has taken on so much and she is a perfectionist who has to learn her limits and not expect so much of herself. Its ok to feel weak and lost sometimes.

All of these things seem to happen directly after a perfect high in my life of efforts I make to make a difference in my community. These challenges reset me and bring me crashing back down to earth to focus on what is important in my family. I have found myself in tears more in the last 3 weeks than I had for a year. Life is never perfect, we all deal with challenges all the time and things that are not in our control. The goal is to keep moving forward and not staying in the negative mindset. This is not easy when things keep going wrong but I know that the reason I have been able to deal with so much tragedy and pain is by looking for a bright side.. moving toward a bright side. trusting in a bright side.

I always recognize when I hit an emotional bottom for me, I then focus all my energy on bringing positive into my life to offset the negative. I have started pulling together ideas for the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution weekend and I am so excited about the ideas I have!

1. thanks to my friend Christian D’Andrea we will have a day that is focussed on Veggies. A veggie fest where we will cook some basic recipes with lesser known veggies. Blind taste tests for veggies that you have never tried!! 

2. A community Garden to be created. A friend of mine Helder is working on finding a plot where we can plant seeds and then as attendees we will take turns managing the garden and we can all share in the results!

3. Back to Basics cooking lessons – lets think back to what the pioneers did for cooking we have lost basic cooking skills and haven’t provided to our children lets do this with parents and kids!

4. Growing Chefs childrens events- will certainly be back in touch with my friend Andrew Fleet to host and create awesome kids events!

I Am also looking forward to creating Ignite Health Ontario II in February 2013. Looking for a facility and to pick a date before the end of this month.

These things remind me of the good I can do and the impact I can have on a greater cause.

I am staying in touch regularily with my sister and Megan is back to looking forward. I am also looking forward to my son getting back to ontario for a visit from Halifax in December!

Christmas is coming and I am ready to restart my life again!

Don’t stay stuck! Find a reason to move forward, pick yourself up and just do it!

 

Love

 

Michelle

My Perfect Spiritual Experience

Would you return to any location or time in your life to relive an experience, to build on an experience or to explore an experience further where would you go?

For me this happened during a very tulmuluos time in my life, my ex husband and I had gone away on a cruise. I almost didn’t go on this cruise with him. At christmas that year he had presented me with tickets to the cruise claiming he wanted to save our marriage and that this trip would be a fresh start for us.  At Christmas I was willing to take that chance, we had both just confessed that we had affairs, we had both hit bottom. I had just lost my job of 13 years and I needed something to look forward too.

A month after Christmas my ex was drinking heavily one night and chose to complete a bottle of rum. He came up to our bedroom and forced himself on me. This was an angry experience with him yelling at me to say he was a better man than the affair, he ignored my tears and had his way with me.

A month after that experience my ex had stopped drinking , a promise to me that nothing like that would ever happen again. I was scared of him not knowing if he would repeat the experience not fully trusting that he would stop drinking. Now I was scheduled to go on a cruise with him and pretend everything was rosy.

I went on the cruise knowing that I would find every possible activity i could. My goal was to stay busy and  not have too much alone time with him. I did Bingo, Wine Tasting, and made sure we took tours at every port. Overall, I was nervous on this trip. I wanted to believe in my ex but my anxiety level was too high to trust him. We had some good times on the cruise, we went to some cool ports. Before we left I had searched each of the islands we would be visiting looking for the best spots to take excursions. I found Magen’s Bay in St. Thomas it was listed as one of the top 10 beaches in the world.  I decided that we would have to visit this beach.

The day that we went to that beach doesn’t generate memories of the morning on the boat. I can only assume a peaceful breakfast with my ex and getting ready to leave the cruise boat for the taxi to the beach.  We brought towels for the beach and laid down. It was beautiful in a little cove waters were pure blue and green and mountains surrounded the beach. Very few people were there , a smattering of tourists and no vendors selling their wares. At some point I went into the water.. I remember the water was the perfect temperature and inviting me in further. I went deeper and laid down in a back float. At some point while I was on my back I noticed tears streaming down my face. I was looking up to the sky and I honestly for the first time in my life I felt god in that moment. God was reassuring me, telling me I would be ok and not to give up. I felt a warmth run through me and the tears kept flowing. I know God was there , I have never been a fan of the church, Bad experiences in my childhood make me not trust the church. I always believed in God. I always knew that there was something bigger than me, bigger than my life experience happening. This was the moment God felt it was important for me to know he sees me.

If I ever remarry, I want to remarry on that beach. If I ever have a chance for a vacation on an island I have to go back to Magen’s Bay. It is my spot in the world. It is where God and I had our only conversation and I need to be there again to feel that sense of calm through my body. that full level of love from God.

My life still has lots of roller coasters but this is my moment in time that I can go back to whenever I feel overwhelmed. This is my spot.

This is where I would return too…Where would you go?

Pirates and a Revolution!

I Love Twitter, have I said that recently? I win contests on Twitter when I enter them, it appears that this is something I do not have a lot of competition in doing. Scanning posts of companies I follow, I have won a book and tickets to The Pirates of Penzance at Stratford theatre this week!

Wednesday I won the tickets to Pirates of Penzance and I sent my 15 year old daughter a text message that we were going to see it at Stratford Thursday night. She replied OMG YEAH!! I didn’t know when I entered the contest that this would make my daughter so happy. I really didn’t know much about this play or what to expect. All I based entering the contest on was that it was for Thursday night which is my day off and that it was at Stratford. I had a look at the description for Pirates and Penzance and saw that it was a musical and it appeared to be a comedy. As soon as I saw Musical I knew Megan would love it. What I did not expect was that I WOULD LOVE it too!!!

 The Pirates of Penzance at Stratford theatre in Ontario this summer surprised me completely. The colours of the costumes, the quality of the actors, the voices of the singers, the energy on the stage, the perfectly timed comedy throughout the show. I loved this night! I walked out of there feeling happy and wanting more!  As I woke up this morning I realized this was the most fun I have ever had at a theatre show. I have seen Rent, and 42nd street in the last 6 months with Megan. They were both good shows and I enjoyed them, I enjoyed the songs and and storyline of Rent. I enjoyed the tap dancing in 42nd street and my toes were tapping along. The music in 42nd street was wonderful and Cynthia Dale was a wonderful actress to watch. But no show has brought it all together and had me feeling like I was walking on cloud 9 as I left the theatre. Well done Stratford Thank you so much for the contest and the amazing prize which I will never forget!! Thank you @StratfestChris!

I also won a copy of The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner. I have wanted to get out to find a new book to read for the last couple weeks and I have just not had the time to get to the library or the money to go buy a new book. So I am truly looking forward to cuddling up with a story and getting lost in it over the next few nights! Thank you to @YMCbookalicious for this!!

On the Revolution Front things are being stirred up again! I received an email from the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution crew asking me if I would like to be the Team Leader for London Ontario for the Food Revolution. They will be ramping things up after the amazing success of the May Revolution Day and they are looking for ideas to keep the movement going forward. I told them about my plans to start Ignite Health this fall with 5 minutes talks on Health related topics. Whether that is Food information, Exercise information, supplement information, doctors, specialists, spiritual those topics all come together to make us healthy. I need to start looking for a venue, speakers, a date and work with existing Ignite organizers to arrange this quarterly event.  There are so many wonderful organizations in London Ontario that I am unaware of. I met with Investing in Children on Thursday and they focus on helping kids with Literacy, Dealing with Poverty, Full day Kindergarten, Healthy Eating and Exercise. They bring together companies that focus on these topics to improve society for London’s children. They will help me advertise any events I do moving forward and I know that we will find other ways to work together in the future.  So this revolution will move forward and I have lots of other ideas that I am not ready to share yet.

I am off on Thursdays , Saturday and Sundays. I am on Call on a rotating basis and I do take additional shifts to help deal with my financial troubles. So I have to figure out my finances before I step too far into the next phase of the revolution. I am commited to finding a way to make both things happen.  I will find a way to keep things balanced just give me a bit more time.

Hugs and my next blog will be about Sunday which is my daughters sweet 16. We are going to Toronto for the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Art Gallery of Ontario! This should be a great day that I look forward to sharing with all of you!