One of the things that I love most about motherhood, is how it all changes.  How we change as parents and people in the midst of it all. I remember such a difference in how I carried myself between having our first and our second, and looking back, it sometimes amazes me that I ever […]

Did I ever tell you how my parents chose my name? Apparently, my parents had been going back and forth for months trying to decide on a girl’s name for me…and it just wasn’t coming to them.  Then, one night, not long before I was born, then went to see a movie together featuring the […]

When I was growing up in London, there used to be something called the Western Fair that came to town every year.  From the middle of the scorching summer sun, this great event would arise and somehow, turn everything into Fall. There would concerts, a giant midway, agricultural exhibits and of course, the anticipation that […]

Nothing changed more when we had our children than our sense of time!  Time, suddenly became this commodity.  This form of currency that we were constantly bargaining for.  I actually laughed out loud one afternoon when I found myself pleaded with my six week old son for ten minutes to have a shower!  That is […]

There are few things in this life more special than celebrating your first Christmas as a new parent.  For all the joy and excitement that comes with the holiday throughout childhood…bringing your own child into the experience trumps it all. Hudson was nine months old when we celebrated his first Christmas.  I honestly thought my […]

We used to call it the “Avery Effect”! It was the way we used to instantly calm down the moment we held our baby girl in our arms.  Our breathing would get deeper…our heart rate would decrease…our voice would get softer.  Holding her was just…magic. Often times, when I was feeling especially anxious during Hudson’s […]