Why coffee & sunshine??

So you're probably sitting there thinking why coffee and sunshine as your blog name? Well it has several meanings to us! So grab a coffee and read on!

It all started when, I, Brittney was on maternity leave, 3 years ago, with my first son Grayson, "Coffee & Sunshine" was my motto. Grayson was not much of a sleeper and on those extremely tiring and challenging days I used to say "I can get thru anything as long as I have coffee and sunshine". It became sort of our saying!!

COFFEE: cof·feeˈkôfē,ˈkäfē/noun

1.a drink made from the roasted and ground beanlike seeds of a tropical shrub, served hot or iced."a cup of coffee"

We are huge coffee finatics. We love to try new types of coffee beans and discovering amazing new to us local coffee shops, especially when we're exploring new places. Coffee is an essential part of our day.

• We meet friends for coffee every week.

• We do our work from coffee shops.

• We make new friends at our regular coffee shops.

For us, coffee shops are so much more than just a place to get your daily cup of jo!

SUNSHINEsun·shineˈsənˌSHīn/noundirect cheerfulness; happiness."their colorful music can bring a ray of sunshine"

Who does not love the sunshine? Living on the wetcoast (also known as the Westcoast!!) Weeks and sometimes months go by where we don't see the sun!! So we hold on to those gimpses of sun rays and our beautiful summers to get us thru those grey, wet fall and winter months! It's amazing how much weather affects our mood!! So as soon as the sun shines it instantly helps lift our mood especially on a bad day!

After reflecting on our name even further... it had a deeper meaning to us.

This may be a bit confusing but follow us on this one... so coffee is a controlled factor. You can choose when, where and if you have a coffee. Just like in life there are factors you can control like a healthy lifestyle, your goals and dreams etc. You are in control of your own life! It is up to to decide when you wake up each morning how are you going to make your day amazing....even on a couple hours of broken sleep!

Sunshine is an uncontrolled factor. You don't get to wake up and decide when and where and if there will be sun today. Those are like the events and moments in life you can't control like loss, illness etc.

However, what you do have control of is your perspective of those situations. You get to choose strength in the midst of pain. You can choose gratitude in a moment of stress. You can choose your "coffee" in those moments of "sunshine".

We hope that made sense... if not it does in our heads! Haha

Check back on our blog for more ways on how we are changing our outlook to be an attitude of positivity and gratitude!

Have a great day!

Brittney & Amanda xo