2018 is now officially in the past, and it was an amazing year.

I am so thankful for my family, husband and boys and our cozy home.  When coming into 2018, I had felt that my quality of life had already improved so much with a more positive attitude.  But now that 2018 is over, I feel like it gave me so much more.  I am so grateful that I have taken steps and made progress towards what I really love.  I am sorry I hadn’t started my art work page and more writing long ago, but I know everything happens in the right time, so feel that it was meant to be and all happened as it should have.

I have had a small break from my day job and have had a great holiday over Christmas.  We spent a lot of time at the hockey rink between practices, extra development practice for our younger one who is hockey obsessed, a tournament for him that he was invited to join another team, and he also played at the intermission of the World Junior Hockey USA vs. Kazakhstan game! It was a thrill for him.  Our local Tim Horton’s owner and former hockey player had a big bus pick up the team – kids and a parent each and take them to Victoria for the game. They also got to keep the TimBits hockey Canada Jersey they wore for the occasion.

I also had 3 book ideas in the past week that I am very excited about!

I am excited about the start of a new year, it always feels refreshing to set new goals and visions for the year ahead.  I plan to keep submitting stories and also work on developing my new book ideas and accompanying illustrations.

I will continue to get up at 5am, paint, write and I want to do a lot of reading as well.  I received a plethora of new books for Christmas that I can’t wait to dive into.  I have already started ‘The Power’ (follow up to ‘The Secret’) and the 5am Club.

What do you look forward to doing during the coming year?

Happy 2019 to you!

Xo,

Devon