My family and I recently took a road trip together. It was my husband, myself and our two young children. The girls ages were 4 years and 18 months old. We were heading for Florida, from Ontario, which was a 3 day drive. This meant 8 hours or more in the car, hotel overnight, stopping for bathroom breaks and meals, and a lot...
Being pregnant is a joy in itself. From the moment you discover that you are in fact pregnant, whether it's been planned or not, you feel that flutter of happiness. For the first few months, you wonder if you really are, aside from the morning sickness you might experience. In the last trimester of my 3rd pregnancy, I didn't...
Snowball. My first baby. She was a chihuahua terrier. My mom and I picked her up from a home one evening after school. I was in grade 8. She had been beaten in the home previous to the place we'd picked her up from. She would cower at everything. I always hoped to get her over that. I fell in love with her the moment I laid ...
Dayna still remembered the day is though it were yesterday. Her and Geoff had been married for 5 years. They had no children because they wanted to be settled in their jobs before starting a family. They wanted life to be comfortable for their children when the time came. That day, Dayna and Geoff had sat at the dining room ...
In my life, I've been sheltered. But I have friends that have dealt with pain in life. The most recent, was a former youth leader of mine. I went on facebook one day to discover that his step son, just 22-nearly 23- had been killed in a car accident. This hit me hard. I used to baby sit this young man when he was a child, an...
A section from a novel I've been working on: Audra arrived at the church and saw no one was there so she started on her bagel. There was still no one around when she finished it. Glancing at her watch, she got out of the car. Right then, the pastor arrived. He waved to Audra and waited as she approached his car. "Hi Audra, h...
Lindsay Wegman
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