There is something foreign with getting to know yourself again after losing yourself for so long. Who are you? Who do you want to be? What qualities do you want to foster? Yes, yes..multiple questions and I haven't given you time to think. When I gave myself the time, the quiet, and the …
Single Mom
I love you, Mama
My Little Mina left yesterday to go to Turkey. It was a mad dash to get everything done and ready before her father picked her up. I spent some time wrapping up little surprises for her plane trip and making a little note-card advent calender for her to take with her. Everyday, she could open a …
Be Safe, baby-girl!
In one week, my baby will be flying over to Turkey with her dad. She and I are starting to have a difficult time as the reality of this comes close. She will be there for 16 days, in another country thousands of miles away. We spent the afternoon gathering things she may need: medicine in case …
“You are still you”
As I lay in bed this morning, I realized that I had been awakened by another bird, not normally around at this time of day: The Woodpecker. That woodpecker is such a determined bird, peck peck pecking away for everything it needs be it food or creating a nest out of a dead tree. Of course, …
Mama, tell me a happy memory…
I am the memory keeper of the family, ever since I can remember. There are moments in my life that all I did was focus on the bad and what was done TO me. It wasn't a healthy place to be. As I mover further away from the past and move toward the future, I have begun to look fondly at the good …