About

Have you ever tried to describe who you are?  It’s not that easy.  You don’t want to come off sounding like an ad for a dating site.  I like long walks, the beach and pretty flowers.

So.  I was born in 1970.  I’m almost 40. I am FORTY ONE now.  I don’t feel it though.  I don’t know what forty is supposed to feel like but I still feel 20.  Which is good.  I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  My dad wasn’t around for my birth or the first 10 months of my life.  He had left Rio and came to Canada right after my mom got pregnant with me.  We joined him just shortly before my first birthday.   We’ve lived in Canada ever since.

I’m an only child, parents have been divorced since I was 15.  They should’ve got divorced a whole lot sooner.  Childhood was wonderful despite the arguments between my parents.  They did their best to hide it from me until my teens.  That’s when all hell broke loose.

I’m married; going on five years seven years now.   My husband and I have known each other since 2002.  We have a child two children now. She’s wonderful and almost 6.  Smart as a whip and very energetic.  He’s 13 months and so different than how his sister was at that age.  I used to think that we were perfect together.  Until you really open your eyes and see who you married.  Having a child either brings you closer together or rips you apart.  In our case it created a huge space between us.  Having a second child was not the best decision for us as a couple but you can’t turn back time now and I am learning to deal with it day by day.

I started blogging on October 31st 2005.  I had always had diaries since the age of 10 and when I had discovered online journaling I was so excited!  But if you look back at my very early entries they are so so silly.  A paragraph here, a picture there…all about my daughter.  No real words to describe how I was feeling at the time.  Nothing like my written diaries were.  But as time passed I’m hoping that my writing here has improved.  This has come to be a place where I share my thoughts on everything that crosses my mind.  My marriage, children, dreams, hobbies.  Basically this place has become something that defines who I am.  Its gone through many incarnations of names, Our Little Funny Bunny (gag!), Behind Closed Doors, Notes from Home and finally now The Mommy Years.  I chose The Mommy Years because this period of being a mother has made me take stock in who I really am, what makes me tick, what my life is all about.  Becoming a mother has made me discover that being a mother is just one of many things about ME!  It’s made me stop and think of who I am and what I want to be.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read.