Blogtober: Day 1 to Day 8.

Blogtober! I love doing challenges and though I'm late in starting, I'm going to do a catch up post and then do my best, in this busy season, to ensure I can post each day until the end of the month. Will you be joining in this year?

From Day 1 to Day 8 this month, aka as October 1st to October 8th, we have been getting ready for a big Thanksgiving Dinner with family and friends, tackling our Fall purge, completing the last few outdoor landscaping projects while the weather is amazing (even finished a Spring project!), work of course, and finalizing the plans for my upcoming baby loss retreat on October 15th. Oh, and in between all this, on October 1st, we were honored to be at an inaugural baby loss gala that I had to do a speech at. A beautiful night that brought more awareness to the impact of baby loss on the community. Amazing night!

Our Thanksgiving Dinner will be on Sunday, October 9th. Many families in Canada celebrate on the Monday but with all holidays, we love to have our celebration on the Sunday and relax on Monday. We have the 5 of us, our neighbors, also a family of 5, his parents and our bestie. So that's 12 altogether. Wait, that's 13. I forgot our little guy will be away for the weekend, so, in the end, just 12. I'll post about this special day next. Many memories were created yesterday!

Work is busy but going much more smoother than it was several months ago. I'm loving heading off to hospice each day again. Sad I lost that feeling for awhile, but cherishing that it's back. We're all healthy, though I just got over bronchitis (again!), and we're settling into a Hygge kind of Fall. My mom is well, though declining, my brother was just here for a short but lovely visit, and dh is loving his new job that has just passed the 6 month mark. He's thriving and growing. Radio station is doing well, our centre is busy with Fall programming, and we're moving forward with some new ideas ~ to be shared another time. All in all, life is good.

The next big project is our baby loss retreat next Saturday. I'm going to use the above photo for some posts this week. As our program is called "H.E.A.R.T.S. Baby Loss Support Program" and we've not done a retreat before, though we have put on a number of workshops. My goal one year is to have a full weekend retreat that is away from the Big City. For now, a one day in town is our plan. Can't wait!

Well, that's my update for now for Day 1 thru Day 8. Stay tuned for Day 9 and Day 10. And all the way to Day 31.

~ Chy

Happy 300th Post!

I had a whole other post planned out for tonight, complete with pictures. Then I realized that this is my 300th post. Not 300 for the year, but 300 in total. It feels like I just celebrated my 100th post, so this snuck up on me without any fanfare, until tonight!!

So how will I celebrate 300 posts?

Well, here's the exciting news .... I'm going to bed!! Yup, still recovering and the snow is falling outside, the house is cozy, there is nothing really great to watch on tv, everyone in my family has drifted off to their own space and my bed is calling me. It's probably the final night I'll have the big bed all to myself, as my husband is still sleeping on the couch downstairs until his cough settles down. I'd rather he be up here but he'd rather be down there, where he feels he won't disturb my sleep. I don't sleep well on my own but am coping. 

Tomorrow is my dh's birthday. He wants to celebrate on the weekend as he's too ill to participate any other way right now. I agree, for his sake, of course. My plan now is to at least have a little cake and a special dinner for tomorrow night. And then we can celebrate 300 posts at the same time. 

See how sneaky I am!! Getting 2 celebrations into 1 evening, with 1 cake.

How do you celebrate a blog milestone? 

Or do you?