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A good, Good Friday 2024 eliza Mar 29, 2024

Is it coincidence that the one year anniversary of Eliza’s cardiac arrest falls today, on Good Friday? I don’t know.

I feel quite emotional today thinking about how the events of March 29 unfolded last year. How everything was so normal and nothing-to-report-here… until it...

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Always both 2024 eliza Mar 22, 2024

Eliza has been so dreadful this week - mad crazy tantrums. Drinks thrown at the laptop. Drinks thrown at the wall. Constant complaining, nothing good enough… it’s exhausting. For some periods, it takes over the entire energy of our house. We get collectively DONE as a family, Eliza...

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Sweet 16th 2024 marriage Feb 09, 2024

Roddy and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary yesterday.

When we got together, we both were married - not the best start to any relationship. I used to carry a lot of shame about that, because of the way I was brought up I really didn't even think it was possible for me to do...

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A lil giddy 2024 family Jan 30, 2024

Do you ever just feel GIDDY with joy for no particular reason? I think I delight in those moments more than any others.

It’s easy to be joyful when everything is unicorns and rainbows, but on a normal Tuesday when 3 out of 4 kids are off school and you’re still in pajamas and the...
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A short story on motherhood 2024 family Jan 29, 2024
 

I dropped Roddy off at PBI yesterday, a he flies to San Diego and is away for the week and you know, it’s been an exhausting few weeks with Amelie being so sick and all. He feels a bit bad leaving me with all of it.

So I  said “As long as none of the kids are off sick this...

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No respite from life 2024 family Jan 06, 2024

We finished our Facebook live this morning, switched off Zoom, and we both just kind of sat there quietly for a second.

Amelie got readmitted to the hospital on Thursday, so there was another night of no sleep at the ER (deja vu after last week!) and then juggling the kids between us both...
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