The start

 If you have been following along with my journey on this blog, you'll know I completely changed my life recently.  Moving myself and my kids four hours away from our home, the place I have lived my entire life and starting new.  With this came some changes,  I have gone from a full time working mom to a stay at home mom.  Sounds amazing right?  It's.. conflicting and to say I am 100% loving it would be a lie.  Now I know some of you are shaking your heads at me screaming, this is it, this is the dream! To be able to stay home and raise your children without the added stress of work, how can I complain about that?!  Well hopefully I can describe it for you.... When I was pregnant with my first son I was working at a local motel cleaning rooms, nothing glamorous but it was a pay cheque.  Remember I started life early, finding out I was pregnant in the last few months of my grade twelve year.  I had already been at the motel part time thro...

Let's talk about kids, the light of our lives, the things you love and want to protect from the world.  Honestly though, have you ever just wanted to bundle them up in bubble wrap and shield them from all of the pain and ugly in the world?  I know I did.  I wanted to keep them from ever feeling pain, or hurt.  I remember one time all of my kids had a bad flu, and they were up crying and throwing up and just feeling awful.  I sat up with them crying, wishing I could take on everything they were feeling just to spare them, to take it all away.   I am sure every parent has had this feeling, wanting to take the hurt on themselves to spare the kids.  Unfortunately we live in a world where that just is not possible.  Growing up, they have to go through all of life's ups and downs.  It is your job as their parents to guide them through this, to learn to take on the pain, but learn to release it and let it go as well.  We have to teach them...