Who's That Girl?

Blood doesn’t always make you family. It is the love, care and devotion you give to anyone in any capacity and on a daily basis that makes you family too. That can be from friends or step parents and step families. I was blessed to have a step parent and step sister and I couldn’t…

The destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else – sacrifice. There are many points in life when you may have to sacrifice something for the good of someone else.  You go without something for yourself to provide for your children, you sacrifice your own mental health to help someone else with…

Today’s blog post will be short and sweet.  It was Mila’s heart follow-up appointment day and as always, my anxiety level was through the roof. The entire drive there I go through so many thoughts and feelings and although I know she is healthy and happy I still always have the worry that I will…

Have you ever carried something for a long period of time?  Carried the weight of the world, carried a grudge, carried a secret or even just carried some feelings from unresolved issues whether past or present?  Well, I’m pretty sure everyone has felt that at some point in their lives and for many different reasons,…

I didn’t have the opportunity as a child to say what I felt or thought to you.  I didn’t know how to verbalize what it was I needed from you, but I also pushed all of that aside as I began to grow up and looked at things differently and in a more mature or…

What I’ve learned over these last few years is that you can’t be everything to everyone nor can you always please them.  A major part of my personality is that I am always trying to ensure everyone else is good.  I want to see others happy; I want to be liked by everyone and more…

1 year has come and gone. 1 year of firsts without you.  It’s crazy how fast time has gone by.  I feel like most days we are wishing our days away.  There is always something we are planning or looking forward to.  Wishing for the winter to pass so we can have our summer.  Counting down…

Being a parent is challenging, exciting, rewarding and exhausting.  There are a million more ways to describe being a parent but those are just a few of the ones at top of mind currently.  Recently I had the chance to hold a newborn baby again.  A beautiful little boy with the sweetest little face.  It…

July used to be a month filled with many happy feelings for me. It was the official kick-off to summer, an anniversary, Mila’s birth month, annual family cottage time and lots of other special celebrations too. It has now become a month of heavy thoughts and yet again, another loss. As hard as I am…

A moment captured that is gone forever – a photograph. I have been going through several bins of items collected over the years and some of which include boxes and albums filled with plenty of photographs dating back to childhood.  Obviously more recently photos are just stored on CD’s or in the cloud, heck even just…