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Message from the Publisher

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Hello Readers! I was going to start this with “where has the summer gone?” but I feel like we didn’t have a summer at all! With all the rain we’ve been having, and the landscape business being so busy, I feel as though our family has completely missed the summer altogether.

I’m writing this while on the deck of a cottage we have rented for a week. It’s our first attempt this summer at getting away, and it’s rained four out of the five days we have been here. Whenever all the chairs dry up and we are ready to sit outside again, it starts to pour! How frustrating!

If I do some deep soul searching though, I find it’s not the weather that’s got me down this week, it’s more the fact that my family of five has not been able to be together, all at once. With the kids getting older and having their own lives, we are finding this more and more challenging. This is the first time we have had the two older ones up at the cottage separately. Last year, we did everything together and I was well aware that it may have been the last summer for it; I soaked it all in and enjoyed every moment. This year has been different. I know it’s the “circle of life”, and I know it’s inevitable. So, I accept it. I don’t like it, but I accept it.

This fall I will sit with my calendar and will attempt to co-ordinate a family vacation for the winter. I will do this with an open mind, of course, and will accept that it may or may not be possible. Regardless, I promise to be grateful for whatever the outcome.

Susana Medeiros
Susana Medeiroshttps://familymattersmagazine.ca
Married almost 25 years and mother of three, Susana is passionate about family, community, and small business. After a very difficult life-stage, she was forced to re-invent herself, personally and professionally. Family Matters Magazine was part of an effort to combine all of her passions into a new career/business opportunity. Susana strives to balance family and work to the best of her ability. Although her children are grown, she still puts focus on daily home-cooked meals and family dinners at the table, almost every night. Being at a later stage of parenthood, she is learning to take more time to explore her own interests and is enjoying more time with her husband as their children become more independent. Professionally, Susana has partnered up in various community projects including The Mom Show. She enjoys encouraging mothers to recognize their potential, as women, outside of motherhood. Ninjamom is personal project that is in it's early stages. It is a movement to empower mothers to practice self-love and self-care without the guilt. Susana has over 25 years of marketing, advertising and sales experience. She works diligently to promote clients in their community both organically and through the online and print publication of Family Matters Magazine.

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