A whole box of happiness!

What a weekend!

There is something so exciting to me when I entertain! I love it all, from searching out what I will make, shopping for ingredients, decorations, flowers and planning the meal.

I love bringing people together and spoiling them! I know that we don't slow down enough... Take time to just talk and visit... Unless it a holiday, but holidays are stressful in their own right. I like to celebrate just any old day! Build a fire, brew an endless pot of coffee and watch everyone sink into the sofa, read the paper and just wallow in the day! Like my dear friend Kristen said "It is always like a mini vacation day!"

When I hear that... I know I accomplished my goal!

Of course there is always fun to be had too! We play soccer, basketball, go for a walk with everyone. It's so interesting when you walk as a group to watch who gravitates to eachother. Ry gave us all a clinic on his skateboards! Everyone tried out the longboards and loved it! the boys have informed me that i will be needed my own board, aparently I'm kinda a board hog!:0 

Hint, hint, mother's day is coming and a certain someone is having a birthday soon! 

We are casual here... Don't want to get out of your Jammie's? Don't! We go barefoot and hats at the table are no worries for us! Kick your feet up on the coffee table and chill!

This sweet boy was up way to early for a teenager and is always such a great helper! Here he surprised me with a flower. Get in line girls... They don't make them like him very often:)

And because I have the best people in my life that are so helpful, I actually got to enjoy my morning run and my coffee and magazine after, in the sunshine before everyone came to our barefoot beachy brunch!

So chose carefully the people you let in your life. The most wonderful people know how to be good to others. Stay far away from those who take more than they give. They will take all of your kindness and just sit around waiting for you to give more. When you treat others well, you are worthy of being adored! Wait for it!❤️

And I got to wear my billabong surfer girl skirt! So that made me happier! Treat yourself and others well and always try and leave everything and everyone better then you found them!

All my best!

Celeste xo ❤️

Calm on the water

Calm on the water

Something my two boys and I have come to know so well...

There is nothing more soothing than the sound of lapping water and waves. Our blood pressure slows, we become calm and tend to want to fall asleep. It urges us to let out a deep sigh...

But what if you could get a full body work out while experiencing this meditative calm. And what if you could do it as a family or with a group of friends? Bring your dog? Put a life jacket on your toddler and work out while they sit, mesmerized at the front of your board? This is paddleboarding! It doesn't matter if your 7 or 70 you can do this!

Email me @:

celestemarie25@yahoo.com and I can provide you with more info!

Life highlight: Hawaii Paddle...  

Here is another story of a paddlers discovery!

Meditative experience!

For 38-year-old McChristie, who works for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and also publishes a regional outdoor magazine, the fun started in the summer of 2010, when she was at a meeting at a lodge on Lake Superior and saw staffers of a local paddling centre SUPing in the waves at the mouth of a river. When an instructor encouraged her to give it a try, she kicked off her running shoes and went out. “I like the challenge of learning a new way to paddle, and the perspective of standing up rather than sitting down,” says McChristie, who has done a fair amount of canoeing and kayaking. She’s noticed stronger core muscles, but for her, the real benefit is the mental-health payoff. “The calmness, the rhythm of the waves and the water and the paddling…. It’s really meditative,” she says.

Celeste m. Photography gulf shores

That same summer, she and her husband, Darren, bought a board, and their kids—Sarah and Nathan, who are now age seven and nine—began to take turns on the board with their parents, first just standing up to balance and later using a paddle. 

Celeste m. Photography gulf shores

Last summer, McChristie took a SUP instructor course in Thunder Bay so she could improve her own skills and introduce others to the sport as well. “Being out on the board is a healthy way to escape the stress of a typical day,” she says. From June to September, she tries to get out for 90 minutes about once a week, often on a small lake where her parents live, near Thunder Bay, but increasingly on the bigger swells of Lake Superior, too. “My fibreglass sea kayak is hard to manoeuvre on and off the car roof rack on my own,” she says. “But it’s no problem for me to throw on my board [boards weigh only 20 to 25 pounds] and take off to the lake for a paddle.”

Celeste m. Hawaii

The benefits of stand-up paddleboarding

Stand-up paddleboarding has become the “it” water sport. What’s not to love? It’s a great core workout and it’s fun

By Bonnie Schiedel