If you follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram then you know Lucas was on Spring Break last week. I posted a lot of these photos already, but here are more highlights from our very long, yet very fun 10 days together. I kept us busy day in and day out by visiting amusement parks,…
Oh yeah, they’re adorable and seem like a great addition to the family, but do not be fooled, puppies are a lot of work and will try your patience in every way! Even more than you think your children do. I’m dead serious. Charlie Pasta turned six months old on December 1 and after having…
Have you ever felt giddy over getting another stamp in your passport? Have you ever been approached on the street in Yaletown and asked if you needed help with directions, restoring your faith in the kindness of strangers? Have you ever been caught in the rain on Robson Street and laughed so hard you cried?…
Today is an anniversary but there is no cause for celebration. Today marks five chances to ring in a New Year, five missed Mother’s Day brunches, five Father’s Day barbeques, five World Series games, five Christmas mornings, one very special birth. Birthdays, holidays and other milestone days are painful reminders of who is missing from…
Even before I started looking I knew the evidence was all around our house. My first clue was the lone baby sock I discovered in the bottom of a suitcase. He hasn’t been able to wear it in three years. The tiny, white, soft sock, still smelled of Dreft made me nostalgic, yes but also…
How did this… …become this? It feels as though it was just yesterday that I was counting your fingers and toes, learning to perfect the swaddle and swaying you to sleep. Now you know all the planets, are learning to read and have strong opinions on where you’d like to go out for dinner. You…
I love learning how couples met and I’m honored that Rach of Life Ever Since invited me to share my story in her So, How’d You Meet? series. Today is a special day in another way too; it marks what would have been my parents 43rd wedding anniversary and to me their marriage was one…
No matter what anyone says, turning 40 is a big deal. You spend your whole 39th year thinking about it. At least I did. Especially the last few months, weeks and days. In just four more sleeps I will wake up 40. 40. It sounds so… foreign. You thought I was going to say old,…
My one and only Lucas, Today you turned three and I am still walking around with my jaw on the floor honestly not knowing where the last 1095 days went. They were gone in a flash. Some so much quicker than others. The smiles, joy, hope, love and magic you have brought to my life…
Not a day goes by that I don’t wonder if my mother would think I was doing a good job raising my son. Not a day goes by that I don’t want to pick up the phone and call my mother to ask her, when I was Lucas’ age, did I do this or that?…
