Finding Peace

This weekend I participated in a walk for depression and mental illness, a walk to mostly raise awareness, but also to raise funds for such an important cause. This was the first year the walk had been done in Agassiz, and the first of many years that I will participate. Next year I will do a much better job of fundraising. This year I only sent emails and posted on facebook. I was so lucky to have 3 people (2 family, one family friend) donate to the cause, but as happy as I was that these three people were willing to help out, I couldn't help but think that for the three years that I did the Weekend to End Women's Cancers, I was able to raise over $2000 each year, and this year I raised $125 for depression and mental illness. As I said, I did not do my share of fundraising events, but it also says a lot about what this illness means to the majority of the people - or more, that it doesn't really mean much to most people, and I guess it wouldn't, until it is a huge part...

  I Wished on the Moon - Billie Holiday I tried to begin this post today with a mindless show, that I love, on in the background. It couldn't be done. I had to turn the t.v. off, turn itunes on, and scroll through the music to find just the kind before I began to "write." I ended up with Billie Holiday (link above.)  I think that is one of the great things about blogging. It takes you out of your world, out of the mindless and into your own mind for at least a few minutes in the day, and that doesn't happen enough these days! This song is actually quite perfect, a well as a dozen others that I could have chosen. It is quite an amazing time these days. On May 5th Brady and I went for our "dating" ultrasound, we were just past the first trimester so were pretty excited to see how photogenic our little critter was becoming! It turns out that he/she is currently a little bit of extraterrestrial mixed with a little bit of frog - and his/her parents couldn...