The funny thing about life is that there is no manual to help figure it all out. There is no instruction guide that comes with your birth or annual checklist to tell you what comes next. We are all just left to figure it out as we go. Step by...
We needed this. We needed this time to connect. To remind ourselves of why we said ‘I do’ in the first place. It wasn’t a week away on an island or a fancy dinner for two at the new ‘it’ restaurant, it was simply a few hours out on the...
I remember being a little girl and jumping out of bed to head downstairs to see first-hand the magic that Santa had brought. Well actually, I didn’t really jump out of bed as I was terrified of the bearded, big guy in Red, but I would call out to my...
There is no worse feeling than your child calling out to you in the middle of the night. As you throw your covers off and head towards their room in a panic you know what’s coming… “Mommy, I don’t feel good…”. You pull them in for a hug only to...
Today I’m gonna share a story of a small-town girl with a big dream. That girl is my cousin Mackenzie and her dream was to become a helicopter pilot. Now she’s not a cousin by blood, but it’s been a pleasure to watch her grow up and soar… quite literally!...
You know those people who come into your life and impact you so greatly that they leave footprints all over your heart? Well for me… Eleanor was one of those people. Not only did she leave footprints all over my heart, but she tap danced all over it with high...
Birthdays. That annual, big, shiny beacon that is consistently the same day every year flashing brightly indicating the passing of another year and yet it always seems to creep up on us. That day where you eat the cake, get the phone calls, open the gifts, toast with family and...
Midlife crisis. Two words I often joked about and never thought, for even a brief second, would ever happen to me. First off, midlife was something so far away and my young 20-something-self- at -the-time thought I was invincible and ageless and secondly, a crisis was something that happened to...
This week I didn’t know what to write about… I sat for a long time starring at a blank screen, with an empty mind, blank canvas and no thoughts. Some days words come easy and some days they don’t. Some days we have no words; opinions, thoughts, deep emotions, but...
Every single story of someone’s life is made up of chapters that you know nothing about. Truth. We are all so quick to judge. Myself included. We see someone, hear their story and judge them on the chapter we are walking into …not really thinking of all of the chapters...