What Is Your Mosaic? Part 2

Still on this idea, close your eyes and think of yourself. What do you see? 🙈

What are the small pieces that create you -- your mosaic? 🧩

My 38 yr-old self would say:

I always wear bangs because in my 20s I over tweezed. My best friend Jacqui always said: when in doubt, cut bangs. 💇🏻‍♀️

Our baby boy is a leftie and we let him be -- I can recall a young me, who was a leftie too -- made to practice writing with my right. ✍🏽 My mom said it would make life easier. I still cook and carry bags with my left hand. 💼

Tea time is still special. 🫖 ☕️ Now our little girl joins me -- born from my childhood, sipping tea after school, watching The Young & Restless with my sister and our parents. 📺

I love the mall because as a kid, I remember our weekend trips to Dufferin Mall and then McDonald’s after. 🛍 🍔

I wear my nails short & red. It reminds me of the models I idolized in those fashion mags I read as a teen. 📖

I drink my coffee half-decaf/half-caf because my friend Susan taught me this is how to avoid the jitters. 😳

I love travelling. With my husband, we are seeing new parts of the world. 🌎 My parents were teachers so we would travel every summer, especially to family in Toronto & Chicago. ✈️

Sea salt Ghirardelli chocolate is my favourite. It reminds me of Midland, Texas and my favourite family there. 🇺🇸

Every night, I put vaseline on my feet and then wrap them in socks -- I started this on those August weeks in Vegas with my girls -- all that walking, shopping, dancing! 🧦 🧦

I order Mrs. Field’s cookie cake on special occasions. 🍪 It reminds me of birthdays with Suzy & Sanaz before we all had kids.

I am starting to worry a lot. 👀 There are many younger than me in my life -- my kids, another set of twin siblings (angels), and my 3 sisters. Life is amazing and wonderful but there is so much I don’t know.

And it’s hard to just trust the universe…

We change and we grow. We win and we lose. And we are a mosaic of all of the things people have done to us, with us, and for us -- everyone we have ever met that has mattered. 💕

What is YOUR mosaic? 🧩

PART 2 OF 3…