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That magical 10 mins

05 Thursday Nov 2020

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A Precious Christmas Gift, alberta, Canada, harlequin author, Kensington author, sunrise

The time change came and all our clocks slid back one hour, and sunrise is a bit earlier.

But I took these photos before the time change, so that the sunrise was just around the time my husband was leaving for work, so I nipped outside in my fluffy pink slippers to snap a couple of pictures for you.

I love this time of morning, when the sky is all rosy, and people are bustling about to start their days. The air was warm–a few degrees above freezing, and no wind to speak of. There is just something about that ten minute window of golden pink light that makes my heart happy.

Then I went back inside to start my day… books to write, manuscripts to edit, my son doing his online school, and a sink full of dishes waiting on me. (The new dishwasher hadn’t been delivered and set up yet.)

That is what my life looks like, and I really am happy. It’s simple, but it’s full of all the best things in life. I don’t know how to put into words how grateful I am for the family God gave me and this ridiculously lucky turn of events that lets me write books day in and day out!

Go breathe in that ten minutes when the sun comes up, and try not to feel grateful! ❤

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Small Town, Alberta

04 Monday Jun 2018

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alberta, small town life, toronto, writer's life

When I first got married, my husband and I were living in downtown Toronto, Ontario. Toronto is Canada’s largest city, and the place where I went to university, so I really loved it there. It was just… home!

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But my new husband was looking at the job market in his field in Toronto versus in Alberta, and we decided it was probably better to head out to where the jobs were. It was just a better start to married life. So we moved about four months after we got married, and I left my family behind in Toronto and we headed west.

In some ways, it was really good for us–we had to rely on each other and figure out who we were as a couple. In other ways, it was hard because I’d always been close to my family and really missed them a lot.

We visited them, and they visited us, and there were lots of phone calls, but it’s not really the same as living in the same city.

Thirteen years of marriage later, we’re still out in Alberta, but FINALLY, my parents are retiring and heading out here to be with us! In fact, they’ll be here this month. It’ll be so nice to have them close by at long last–more grandparents to spoil our son rotten, and just family to be close by.

This months, we’ll all be together again, in small town, Alberta. ❤

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