Just a little more than two years ago I would walk Isla to the bus, with not enough hands to hold all the tiny hands that wanted to hold mine. And every day I’d think what an incredibly wonderful problem this was, and how fortunate I was to have all these beautiful little people…
Yesterday I was berated on social media, and we need to have a conversation about it because there should be no cause for disagreement here. What did I post? Hi friends! A quick friendly reminder to stay home if you’re suffering from flu-like symptoms. The worst of the season is behind us, but influenza B…
On Tuesday I sat down and shared Jude with you. Some of you have been with me longer and already knew a lot of what I had to say, and some of you were hearing our story for the first time. (Facebook, Twitter, blog) Thank you, all of you who took the time to read…
Originally posted on Facebook, January 16, 2018 Today is Thomas and Jude’s birthday. Thomas is four, and Jude isn’t, and the reality of this is awful. I’ve been sitting on this post all morning, wishing for the right words. They aren’t coming. I miss my boy. I hate that Isla and Thomas had to learn…
One year ago today we asked you to join us in a conversation that we’d been quietly having in our own home, with doctors, with experts, since a phone call that knocked us off our feet only eight weeks earlier. For months people had been asking for more information, looking for details, trying to figure…
Justin Trudeau is heading to New York tomorrow for two days packed with events. Part of that trip includes a discussion with Melinda Gates at the Goalkeepers Conference, on the heels of the report of the same name. The Gates Foundation have been painstakingly collecting data from around the world focusing on different areas of…
A year ago today my phone rang and my life changed. I remember the first time Isla skinned a knee. She fell, she was a little banged up, and there were tears. I patched her up and she kept going, but even though there was nothing I could do to prevent it – skinned knees…
One year. One year ago today our lives changed forever. Jude woke up with a low grade fever and hours later he was dead. Our beautiful, hilarious little boy, with the strawberry blonde rabbit fur hair, giant brown eyes, unbelievable eyelashes (clearly not inherited from me). Never again would we hear his belly laugh…
I remember those days in 1990, the early ones following my dad’s very sudden death on May 8th. I remember the way people rallied around us, the way they showed up. I remember people finding ways to show love to us when we needed it. I remember people telling us how much my dad meant…
After a morning of sniffles Thomas woke up from his afternoon nap yesterday with a bit of a runny nose. . ‘Hey bud, you might be getting a little bit sick!’ . ‘I can’t get sick!’ he wailed through sudden sobs. . ‘Why not, buddy?’ . ‘Because I get died!’ . My three year old…
Graphic has no sound and takes only six seconds! How’s THAT for a title? Catchy, right? More and more I hear people ask, ‘why is my unvaccinated child a risk to your vaccinated child if vaccines are so good?’ Here’s the thing. Vaccines are fantastic, but none of them is a 100% guarantee against…
I check the ‘on this day’ app most days, for the chance some adorable memory will pop up. Today Facebook reminded me of this day, two years ago, when four separate cases of the measles had been confirmed in Toronto. Do you remember that two years ago, when measles was all over the news? At…
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