It's been a month since I started my 2013 Personal Revelation Revolution.

I gave 2013 the theme of learning more about myself and - as Oprah puts it - living my best life. There is lots to discover and to experience and to ponder and with the help of "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach, "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin and of course Oprah, I set out to do just that.

It's our 5 year Canadaversary today!

On January 29, 2008 we landed in Vancouver and the adventure began!

It's been a great 5 years, and here are a few highlights:

When we first came to Merritt, we had to take a little hike up to the flagpole to check out our new hometown.

You know that thing your kids does or plays with that drives you completely insane? I happen to believe that my children choose their objects of desire based on how insane it's gonna drive me. Since I'm all organized 'n shit I had to come up with a unit of measure for this - so I present you with the P.I.S. - the Parental Insanity Scale.

The scale goes from 6-10. No need to even have 1-5 on the spectrum, because on any given day at any given time any given child will do something annoying, but we've built up a tolerance against it. It's called being a parent. So I'm talking about the stuff that makes your blood boil - here we go:

My son and I were sitting on the couch last night, having a little chat while my husband watched one of his scary movies that give everyone else in the family nightmares...

Marius told me that one of his classmates has a great-grandmother who lives in Edmonton and just turned 106 years old.

Isn't that amazing?

My feet are cold.

I sit at my desk in my new office, working. Until now I had not noticed that there is no heat.

Sure I noticed that there is no window in this office, maybe I thought since it's an inside office without any outside walls it would be warm all the time.

My feet are cold.

Welcome to the 2013 Personal Revelation Revolution!

The whole thing started when I read the Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin over the holidays. I thought a lot about being happy (and unhappy), about being myself, about evolving as a person, about focus and awareness and about resolutions.

(My oldest likes to call them "revolutions" rather than resolutions and I just love that.)

Nevertheless, I did not resolve to do anything for the New Year. I know I have to take better care of myself and lose some weight. I know I have to be more active, bla bla bla...