Protected: How one lie hurt our family.

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The best and worst of it.

This is mostly a mind venting post. Just things swirling around my head lately. You can`t understand the ups and downs of parenthood until you are in it. People can try to tell you about it, and they will, but the actual truth will not be understood until you are there. We are almost 5 years …

Raw and controversial.

I need to get really real for a minute here. I'm going to talk about gender disappointment. I've seen one too many posts about a woman (or man) revealing that they are experiencing gender disappointment in some form, and then comments heckling them. "Health is all that matters", "You should be lucky you can even …

It’s already 2018.

My last post was in July 2017. That was before we moved from Victoria. Oh boy. I don't even know how to do this anymore. I haven't had the time, inspiration, or motivation to write another blog post since then. I mean, there's a lot of topics I could go on about, but none that I really …

The hardest goodbyes, but the best hellos.

The movers come in 10 days. 10 more days in this beautiful city that we have made our own. My husband is finishing up his service and we are moving back to our former province. We will be with both our families again. This is something we both greatly cherish. We want our son to …

Open letter to Plane-Mom

Last night, I flew a 5 hour flight with my husband and 1 1/2 year old. The timing was meant to be favourable. I planned for the engines to lull him to sleep during take off like I had experienced before. However the flight was an hour delayed. This led to an overtired and overstimulated …

It’s been a while.

I've been in a funk. Socializing is hard, writing is hard, motivation is slim to come by. I'm not sure what has been causing my down mood, but I'm finally coming out of it. A lot has happened in the past month or so since my last blog post, so here's a summary. Avery's 1st …

9 Things I thought I’d never do

My son is almost a year and on a weekly basis I find myself thinking "Wow, this is what life is now". I'm sure this is normal, and all parents go through this, but sometimes it baffles me at the things I say and do now! Pick out boogers with tweezers. My son was asleep …

First time sick

Little man is sick for the first time today. During our regular nighttime wake-up, I noticed he was burning up. I took his temperature at it was about 37.1. I was worried, but thought it would clear up by morning. Nope. He was restless all night long and crying in such a saddening way. When …

Winning.

Guys. Guys, listen. I took a 15 minute shower just now. Seriously. Instead of my super quick, multi-tasking shower regime, I shaved, shampooed/conditioned, brushed teeth, and relaxed one task at a time. I know. I know what you're thinking. WIN. That's actually pretty sad. My standard for 'winning' has lowered drastically since becoming a mom.But, …