A year already??

I can’t believe it has been a year since I have updated this!!!

Being a new business owner, wife, runner and taxi driver to 4 young daughters has kept me a little busy!

This year we opened up our own furniture store www.eleganteinteriors.ca  that Cassandra works at in between skating and swimming (she just passed her Bronze Medallion & CPR last week)!

Cassandra has also taken up Mom’s hobby of running and ran a 1k race in Barrie on Canada Day and 3k with the Running Room on Green Hat day!

On to the love of her life……skating! Cassandra is presently skating a couple days a week throughout the summer at Mariposa in Barrie, she loves it there. She is thrilled that Coach Amanda (who we adore) arranged to have THE Jennifer Robinson choreograph her new routine!! She picked very “cool” music and Cassandra has designed a very original outfit……..that’s my girl, swimmer, skater, soccer & skating volunteer coach, runner, cyclist, A/B student, community activist and clothing designer!! There is no stopping my girl!!

Cassandra is sooooo excited for skating this year – she has an axel, spread eagle, double jump and combination spin in her new routine and again…..she is skating with no accomodations for her vision, which best corrected is 20/200 and comes with a nystagmus……she inspires me daily.

Speaking of inspiration and lack of accomodations……at the Canada Day Run in Barrie Cassandra met someone who inspired her. His name is Rick and he is a wonderful man who is a “runner”, he has qualified for Boston and is hoping to come in under 3 hours!!! That is insane – 42.2 KILOMETRES in 3 HOURS??? I know people do it and they are all incredible but Rick is super special as he does his sport without accomodations too…..he is a runner who happens to be missing a leg! How AMAZING is that? He was also featured on A Channel news! Cassandra was a little shy when she met him but talks about him and his determination all the time. She has this up in her room…..

Here are a few of our past year……ooops…..I will update more often from now on!

Thanks for stopping by!

Silver in Thornhill…….

How exciting! It's silver!

Cassandra had a great skate! She skated first in her flight (group) and she did a beautiful job! We are so proud of you Cassandra! I guess our 6am wake up was worth it!

 

This is Cassandra and one of her coaches, Danielle. Cassandra loves her so much. She tells me that she is funny, pretty and cool! I think so too. We are lucky to have such a talented young lady so supportive of Cassandra!