I have discovered that planning to have a baby is like planning a wedding all over again. Everyone has an opinion and you can't please everyone. I broke a few traditions when I got married and it was controversy! I had candy centre pieces instead of flowers - shocking! We didn't have a wedding cake instead we did a big desser buffet with a chocolate fountain - scandelous! We gave the first dance of the night to our parents as a tribute to them and their marriages - WHAT! I would like to point out that I specifically didn't tell my mom we weren't having a cake to avoid the drama and do you know that she never even noticed! That's the thing about these so called traditions, if you don't do it odds are no one's going to walk away complaining that you didn't have a cake.
Now as I am getting closer to baby time and talks of baby showers have begun it all starts over again. "You want to have the shower before the baby is born? You can't do that!" I realize that yes everyone likes to meet the baby at baby showers but my baby is due mid-November, it would be mid-December before I would probably be up for a shower and that seems unfair to guests to do something like that so close to Christmas. I'm not going to go into hiding with the baby, everyone's going to get a chance to meet the baby when it's born.
So i'm going to do what I did with my wedding and break tradition and have the showers before the baby....hopefully people still come!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
From This Moment On
She endured a rough childhood to say the least including poverty and domestic abuse. After losing her parents at a young age Shania took over taking care of the family and moved everyone from Timmins to Huntsville to work at Deerhurst resort and eventually becoming the country superstar we know her as now. Her journey was an interesting one as she battled record executives to write her own music and have more creative force behind her image.
The book also deals with the sad end to her marriage to husband Mut Lang who was also her co-writer and producer for her albums. She is in a happier place now recently re-married and starting to fire up her music career again, she has signed up to headline in Las Vegas in 2012.
I love biographies and Shania was truly honest about her life, her struggles and the depression that comes with divorce. I was surprised to read the stories of some of her homes even later in life and how she roughed it in a house in Huntsville with no running water. It's not what you expect from someone like her, but Shania is just the image that we have known for the past 10 years, it was Eileen, her real name who roughed it and it sounds like even the Eileen/Shania now is happiest back in nature how she grew up.
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