In early September 2024 I received the worst phone call of my life. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I was out walking my dog when the call came in and my legs went numb. The world around me spun like a dream. My ears rang and I couldn’t process...
To me the last month of the year is always like squeezing that last bit of toothpaste out of the tube. You know what I mean right? When the tube appears to be empty but both you and your spouse are too lazy to go get a new one, so...
Somewhere along the race we call motherhood I’ve fallen into last place. I give, give, give all I have to my family and as amazing as it is to watch them thrive, I fall behind and constantly feel like I’m losing the race. It’s not like I intended it to...
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...
No matter how much we try to control things, some things are just out of our control. Like the dreaded Covid. Last week I got hit. Stuffed up, head ache, body aches, runny nose and man was I tired. Just a cold I thought as I’ve been run down trying...
Anxiety… that funny seven letter word that has been thrown about for the last two years and shunned by many as a negative personality trait and label to be worn as someone who is high stress and tied tight. But I laugh at that label; crumple it up and throw...
It’s funny how we always hear things like, “you are who you surround yourself with” and “choose your friends wisely”. It puts extreme pressure on us as to whom we choose to spend our time with as ultimately it says a lot about us. Sometimes we like people for their...
So I think we all sit in the hairdresser’s chair and expect a miracle. We go in with a picture in our mind of who we want to walk out of that salon as … and we expect our stylist to make our hair match our dreams. You know what...
I lost my grandma to colon cancer at the age of 52. I never got to meet her. She was so young and had so much life to still live. Three years ago I had to begin my pre-screening with a routine colonoscopy as it can be genetic and yesterday…...
Strength to me is so many things; one of them being my seven-year-old riding this pony around for 20 minutes bareback. No one else would give it a try but she was fearless. Pulling on that mane to get herself up and then holding on for a ride while singing...