Just keep blogging, blogging, blogging....

Now, many of you have been following my struggles over the last year and a half through my mom, but I figure it might be time to share a bit from the source. Whether this provides insight to you, or you want to show it to your kids who might be struggling, or your kids who are doing great so they can feel super accomplished, hopefully it will be cathartic to write it all down. Going back to the root source, after finishing university I immediately jumped into working full tim

Once upon a time there was a remarkable princess named Jasmine. She lived in a lovely neighbourhood, in a lovely home, with fairly normal, yet somewhat quirky parents and her brother, Devin. Jasmine was like an Energizer Bunny... always go, go, going. She was smart, engaged in the world around her, surrounded by friends, and constantly involved in activities that kept her busy. She was passionate about becoming a filmmaker. After high school, she moved to Toronto to pursue he

Anxpression or depressxiety — which "ship" name do you like best for the fact that depression and anxiety often seem to hold hands , making it even harder to get rid of them? At our house, this certainly seems to be true. We can tell which one came first, but once you have both, it becomes much harder to determine what the proper course of action is for treatment. There are loads of things you can do to help prevent both of these conditions: deep breathing, hot showers, prop

We are officially done with them — teenagers. Yesterday, like literally yesterday, our baby turned 20, and just like that... poof. .. no more teens in my house. How did this happen? Time really does go by that fast. Lately, I’ve been trying to remember the good old days and share stories with my kids about all the fun we had while they were growing up. The problem is, I tend to remember the same moments over and over, and it can be hard to pull up the smaller details. That’s

It has been too long since I sat down and wrote a post. At first when I thought about it, I couldn't even think what to write about next, a few weeks have passed, now it has been almost 2 months and my brain is having a tough time focusing on where to start. I need to update you on the kids' health, my Mounjaro journey, Christmas time, feeling like I don't know what I want to do next... so where do I even start? What I realize is, it doesn't matter where I start, it matters h