Let’s Talk Babies

11 years.  It has been 11 years.
On this day, 11 years ago, I lost my father to his lifelong battle with depression.  March 4th, 1999
my father took his own life leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, guilt, and an endless amount
of “what ifs”.
The day my father passed away had been a day like any [Read the rest]

Writing is a big part of who I am.  I have always been a writer.  From a very young age I loved writing stories.  When I was in second grade our school library had a writing contest.  We were all challenged to write a little book and the winners would have their book “published” and [Read the rest]

Maya is a performer.  She loves dancing, singing, doing somersaults and acting out the scenes of old home movies we’ve made of her.  Put on any music or movie with dancing and singing and she is right there dancing along.  She has a passion for these Disney sing-a-long dvds mostly because it gives her the [Read the rest]

It has been a long, cold winter here in St. Louis this year and I doubt it is going to be over any time soon.  I’m not a big fan of the cold as it is (I know weird given that I grew up in Canada!!) but when you add a restless toddler into the [Read the rest]

When I first found out I was pregnant I immediately started dreaming about a girl baby.  I somehow just knew that the little person inside of me was a little girl.  It turned out I was right  Those vivid pregnancy dreams of my little girl always involved lots of bows and pigtails and [Read the rest]