Portugal vs France | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photography

while in victoria visiting my parents this week, the final game of the euro cup was going to happen.

can't lie, i havn't watched a stich of it but this final game was my people, my blood inside me people, my hertitage in the final...i would be watching this one for sure!  

so the closest thing to being in portugal while in victoria was to be at the portuguese hall.  my hubby was pumped to experience this event at this location (our trip to portugal locked greg in, he's a fan of our crazy culture).

the game was stressful (the palmbays helped), kids were welcome and the FORCA was strong! the only thing the hall was missing was the sales of depends undergarments!

so proud. win or lose. it would not have mattered but it was a sweet wave of pride when the game ended which lasted the entire eveing! (and forever!!)

#lifeunscripted

(music for the video is my cousin Nelly Furtado- FORCA -Greatest Hits Album)

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Oh Canada | klutch Photography | Vancouver family photographer

THROWBACK FRIDAY REPOST FROM 2014....

as the sun goes down on your special day and all the little tattooed faces get washed off , flags tucked away for next year and back yards are cleaned up from epic family gatherings, i sit here and think how lucky we are oh canada the great, to live within your borders and i just wanted to say thanks for a few things... like making me feel safe at night,

being able to speak whatever language i desire and say what ever comes to mind without judgment,

for having some of the cleanest water in the world (out of my tap!),

being loved across the globe because we flash your name around,

for your gorgeous beaches, lakes and mountains, with skylines that we (mostly) take for granted,

being able to afford a doctors visit

and drinking beer at 19,

i will even say thanks for your CRAZY amount (almost, all year long) of rain because without  it we wouldn't value our summers so much!

oh canada, i'm proud to take your name... thank you!

happy birthday.

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I'm keeping the whole pie to myself today | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photographer

it's 1999 and i was commuting ever week on the ferry as a walk on to vancouver to be with this boyfriend named greg (who is now my husband of almost 15 years). looking back, it's hard to remember the details of those days but i do remember the feelings. it was a mixture for sure, but mostly the feeling of being whole and balanced are what comes up the most, not because of having a "relationship" but more because of the time i gave myself...

 time to dream, the time to savour coffee on days off, gym time, journaling, watching sunrises on my birthdays, nights with girlfriends...and even, wait for it - afternoon naps!

*side note-i really think we need to communicate to our girls the importance of this "selfish time" and keeping it going as we transition to the obligations of advanced adulthood*

today i dropped my little ladies off in victoria with my parents (for grandparent camp) for a week. lucky me right!! this required me to walk them on the ferry and walk back on the next ferry. this for most, would feel like a chore but for me it was like walking back in time...

as i sat in the sun, with music in ears-rocking out, journaling, being in true appreciation of the view- i was no longer appeasing the demands of being the mother, or the expectations of being a daughter to immigrant  parents, wearing the diamond band marking me wife...or the bff status on FB.

i'm dina ferreira.

whole and balanced.

this is me.

"where the fuck have you been" I think to myself. "man, I've missed you...it's been to long!"

today there are no pieces of my pie needing to be given out today for people to survive on. it's all mine to savour. like a child with a treat, i will not share it!! i will be selfish and gorge on it's magnificent taste.

as the 9am vancouver ferry passes us, we all wave like four year olds...symbolic really, as i feel my "whole self" is about to jump overboard to join the passing ferry. my whole self can not stay forever as that ship has passed many years ago...by choice of course.  i would never take back my last 15 years as it has made me a secure, don't care about what you think of me, lover of life person!

but today i realized how much I like "keeping the whole pie" all to myself. i think i might take up baking.

#lifeunscripted

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