When I was four my younger brother was born the day before what is now my favorite holiday; Halloween. In my sixth year my parents split up and my mother moved away. My father's mother, my grandmother, passed away after fighting a long battle with brain cancer when I was just shy of eleven years old. My father remarried when I was 12 and we moved to Newfoundland when I was 13. From there, I moved to Edmonton, Alberta to live with my mother. I lived in Alberta for almost two years before growing homesick and moving back to Nova Scotia, where my father returned after the end of his second marriage. I remained in Nova Scotia for four tumultuous years.
In 1998, when I was 19, two of my friends got into a horrific car accident on Apple Blossom weekend and died. This was a turning point for me, and I moved back to Alberta.
I moved back and forth between Nova Scotia and Alberta for a couple more years before meeting my common law husband, Justin. We met in Alberta when I was 24. A year to the day after we met, we welcomed our first child, Gavin, into the world. Gavin was born eight weeks early. Fifteen months after that, our daughter, Chloe, was born. She was born two weeks early.
Since having the children we have moved 14 times, living in Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, & Newfoundland. Currently, we live in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, where I volunteer at my local community centre.
I am a daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, aunt, witch, grand-daughter, cousin, niece, and more!
I am ME.
And my story is far from over.
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