This week I’d like to introduce you to Ruth from Mom’s Musings. Ruth and I have known each other, IRL, for fifteen years! WOW, that’s hard to believe. She is one of the reasons I started blogging, starting a Facebook account, started a lot of things actually.  In some ways… you have her to thank for me! 🙂

This is going to be fun and not just because I can scour my own personal photo albums for great pictures of her. bwahahahahahaa {insert evil laugh}.  Don’t worry, I’ll play nice. This photo my five-year-old took while at a #BlissLunch I hosted a little after Blissdom Canada came to Toronto last year.

I have been through a lot in my life.  I had a great life, with some unique experiences and some awful ones.  All of my past has brought me to become who I am today.  I wouldn’t change anything that I have gone through, no matter how difficult it was.  I believe that what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.  I believe in a strong family.  I work in a group home with some amazingly exceptional people.  My youngest daughter has a brain injury from birth. Some days the glass is half full while other days it is half empty.  I am learning to navigate the waters of special needs parenting.  My faith is growing all the time.  I have a lot of questions sometime.  I love to write and will one day write a book.  Not sure what it will be about yet. 

I am a Christian.  I love God.  I love my husband.  I love my kids.  I love the chaos that we call our life.

Coffee drinker? Yuck…


Even though I should flog you for that answer… I know you LOOOVE Iced Cappuccino’s from Tim Horton’s. That be good enough to let you continue here. 🙂

1) What drew you to blogging?  I wanted a place to store my family memories… and I really love writing, so I thought it would be a great outlet for me too.

2) How do you characterize yourself?  Hm… lately? I have been asking myself this same question. I guess you could say I am a woman who is on a journey to figure out how I characterize myself. 😉

3) What did you want to be when you were little?  A mommy

4) Are you married? Kids?  Married 16 years with 5 kids on earth {15 y/o boy, 13, 9, 6, and 3 y/o girls} and 1 baby girl born to Heaven.

5) If you could have a superpower, what would it be?  Everyday I dream that I can take time away from my real life and live in a pretend world where no one is whining or crying… so, I guess I would like to have transporting powers…

6) Favourites:

• Food – Yes… OK, Pasta
• Colour – Black (I know it is not technically a colour…but it is still my answer)
• Movie – A toss up between Ferris Buellers Day Off and Little Miss Sunshine
• Book – Hm… I don’t have time to read anymore 🙁 {But Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut was a fave book of my past}
• TV show – Anything reality I guess… I don’t watch much TV anymore
• Blog – I’m a Lazy Mom

7. What is your favourite quote?  We make a living by what we get… we make a life by what we give… – Winston Churchill

8. What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?  That I am a good mom and we are doing something right with parenting {though most days I have a hard time believing that}.

9. What play list/CD is in your CD player/iPod right now?  Oh, oh… I just added songs to my Blackberry!! They consist of Rolling Stones, The Cure, Morrissey, Pearl Jam and many more!!

10. Are you a night owl or a morning person?  A night owl by nature, a morning person by force {kids}.

11. What is the meaning behind your blog name?  Pretty basic… Mom’s Musings – My daily {not so daily} musings about my life as a mom, a wife, a woman and about my journey too.

12. Where would you visit if you had the chance?  Hm… anywhere away from here;-) No, I really want to go to Costa Rica to zip line in the rain forest.

13. What’s your favourite Canadian city?  Toronto Baby!!