fashion | Lessons from my daughter

I was raised by a mom who believed in me…

Because of my mom, I know how to believe.

Believe in myself, believe in my husband and believe in my daughter.

I’ve written before about Emily’s self-esteem.

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Today, I want to show you and tell you about Emily’s schoolwork.

This first page was done at school.

I loved her answers.

She doesn’t believe in love at first sight, in order for a relationship to survive, you should not argue and you know your relationship is in trouble when one person quits.
What is she looking for in her soulmate? He needs to love dogs, the Big Bang Theory and cheerleaders. He should be tall with hazel colored eyes and love to laugh.

Isn’t that just beautiful?

Now, the homework part.

Emily had to define herself using this list of words.

She read all the words and told me what they meant. Some of the words I had to explained to her.

I had her circle the ones she felt applied to her.

She circled 19 words.

Leader
Creative
Musical
Funny
Agreeable
Honest
Thoughtful
Loving
Family oriented
Upbeat
Brave
Hardworking
Friendly
Kind
Happy
Fearless
Peaceful
Respectable
Focused

My girl!

We needed to shorten the list and she crossed 9 off and kept her top 10.

Musical
Funny
Honest
Loving
Family oriented
Hardworking
Friendly
Kind
Happy
Fearless

We needed to define 8 and pick 5 that define her.

In the end, she picked

Musical
Happy
Fearless
Honest
Funny

My girl!

I am so proud of her!

I’ve said since day 1 that I would build Emily up so high that she would forever believe in herself.

I think I’ve done well in her first 17 years and I promise to continue!

How do I do it?

Lots of love
Tons of positive reinforcement
We don’t give up or quit when it gets difficult.
We laugh a lot together and laugh at ourselves too.
We work hard
We celebrate our successes, no matter how small.

A couple of weeks ago, I sat down and wrote my first ever bucket list.

You can find my post here: Autumn Bucket list

The last 2 items on my list are:

39. Document my bucket list with pictures

40. Blog about my progress weekly

This is my second update… what could we have possibly done over the last week?

#1 – Get Emily ready for Halloween.

I am not showing you yet 🙂 but it involves a wig, bow and arrows and an awesome dress!

#4 – Go apple picking.

Around here, it looks like everybody go apple picking at the same place which makes for a very busy outing with too many people… So, we went the other way and found a nice quiet orchard…

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What’s with the hat you ask? Emily wanted to wear it last week when we went pumpkin picking and we convinced her not to. This week, we just couldn’t convince her not to so she wore it…

We picked and bought many apples. Once home, I made a nice apple and blueberry crumble.

#15 – Catch a Wildcats game

Now that Jonathan works during the day (Yeah for no more overnight shifts), we will probably do this more often. We used to be season tickets owners… I suspect we might be again in the future.

#18 – Make puzzles with Jon and Emily.

We started a 1,000 pieces puzzle… not done yet but I suspect that Emily will come and save the day towards the end of it!

#20 – Help with the United Way campaign at work.

I work with amazing colleagues and every chance we have, we help with fundraisers. We can bake as a group to bring goodies to a bake sale or put a “gift basket” into our United Way silent auction. For the 3rd year, we’ve also issued a challenge to other teams at work increasing the amount of gift baskets or items entered in the auction and increasing the money that is raised.

We haven’t revealed our “contribution” to the auction yet… Once we do, I will show you!

We attempted #17 – Go on a fall foliage drive… The colors were not there yet so we will give it another try tomorrow!