Twelve years ago today, our beautiful Lucy was born.
Thank you, Lucy, for sharing your warmth, your wisdom, your wit, your creativity, your love, your courage, your perspective, your passion, your steadiness of self. And thank you for your patience with us as we stumble recklessly into each new parenting realm.
I love you, my baby sweet.
Wishing you many, many, many more years of happiness and good health.
Love always,
Mom
xoxoxoxox
Ten years ago today, our beautiful Bayla was born.
Thank you, Bayla, for sharing your sunny bubbles, your spunk, your music, your cuddles, your wit, your perspective, your art, your ideas, your passion, your love. And thank you for your bullheaded determination.
I love you, my baby sweet.
Wishing you many, many, many more years of happiness and good health.
Love always,
Mom
xoxoxoxox
Happy Birthday, My Sweet Lucy!
And many, many happy returns.
Love,
Mom
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Happy Birthday, My Sweet Bayla!
And many, many happy returns.
Love,
Mom
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Looking forward to celebrating very, very soon!
Some months ago I didn’t think there was going to be a birthday party for me this year — my 40th. The truth is, I wasn’t sure I wanted a birthday party what with everything that was going on in our lives. Andrea insisted she would arrange a party for me.
Imagine that. While going through chemotherapy, Andrea was committed to arranging a party for me. And she did.
Then came last week — the week from hell. Without going into details, our family situation and stress level was such that neither Andrea nor I felt much like celebrating. In fact, my actual birthday was a real bust. We canceled party-time care for our two daughters… twice.
Then, things turned around. Andrea, Lucy, Bayla and I escaped Ottawa for the day yesterday. We had a fantastic time being together away from our troubles and away from our usual surroundings. During lunch, Andrea suggested we bring Lucy and Bayla along to the party.
It was a perfect suggestion.
And… my party ended up being better than I could have ever expected. I was reminded how great my friends are and my family had a chance to meet others who are important to me: Rick Claus and his wife Kelli, Bob Goyetche, Jay West and his wife Ann, Bob Ledrew (OtherBob) and his wife Cat, Jamie O’Farrell, Julien Smith, Robert Farrell, Maurizio Ortolani and his wife Jacinthe, and Franc Epton and his wife Lisa. Thank you for being a part of my life, being at my party and for the incredible gifts!!!
I’m an amazingly lucky guy!
Happy Birthday, my sweet.
And many, many happy, happy returns.
ps. Check out a glimpse of Mark’s first 40 years in this beautiful post. Thank you, Mark.
In two weeks, we will be celebrating my birthday with my friends even though my birthday is in July. The reason I am celebrating it in May is that everyone is away in the summer.
Here are some of the activities planned: scavenger hunt outside/inside,”Bunny Trail Dirt*” competition, flashlight tag and other really sweet games.
For dinner we will be having “make your own burrito night” followed by the Bunny Trail Dirt competition. I think we will have many rounds of flashlight tag, but I think they will be around 9:00 to 12:00 (advice to self: be quiet during the rounds of flashlight tag because there is a preschooler next door and I do not think he wants to be woken up by some noisy best-friend grade threes, THOSE ARE THE ABSOLUTE WORST!!!!!!!!!.)
* Bunny Trail Dirt is a mixture of all sorts of candies (eg: rockets, smarties, jellybeans, (gushers if you don’t mind a storm) some pop rocks, brown & white sugar andbits of chopped up cookie.)
I miss you.
Mark
Andrea
Lucy* (
Bayla* (*Luba = Lucy and Bayla
