My montage

Olivia Lauren

Tommorow

Tommorow would have been my mom and dad's 30th wedding anniversary. I hate this day now that she is gone. I feel like my dad is finally starting to "heal" and then another significant day comes along.

I did not realize that my mom was pregnant with me when she and dad got married. I never really did the math and thought"hmmmm...my birthday is 6 months after their anniversary!" One day when I was about 12 our neighbor was looking at my parents wedding album and said "Karen were you pregnant?" and that is how I found out. For the first time in my life I realized that even mom wasn't "perfect". I miss her so much it hurts.

Yippee....I think

So, I think we are finally going to take the plunge and get a puppy. A boxer puppy to be exact. I am actually really excited..but, nervous at the same time. Olivia will be so excited. A co-worker of mine will have boxer puppies in a few weeks and we get first pick of the litter.



We will get a female and name her Marlie(a female version of Marley. As in Bob Marley). My only fear is that a puppy will be so much work that I won't be able to keep up. Although this is something we have talked about repeatedly through the years and always knew we wanted. We just never took the plunge! So here we go and this is what she will look like. ..
Mom was so not a dog person! Just another thing I have realized that sets us apart.

Give me the strength

and, the courage and, the patience and, the ENERGY.....to keep up with my life.

Discovery

It was nice...

To come back here and read my first blog. I was unhappy about last Christmas and am happy to report that we are going away this year. We will be at Disney World in Orlando for Christmas this year. No presents and no stress! Yippee!