I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Season and Happy New Year! I am trying to get caught up on my blogging, so Warning: This is LONG! This past month has been wild. Here is a map of where we have been since November 16: View Larger Map Once again, The Clarks trekked the globe. Though these 15,000 miles of traveling looks fun and exciting, it was not necessarily by choice. This has definitely been one of the most difficult month and a half of my life thus far, but we made it, and made the best of it!. 1st stop Calgary: Brooklyn and I flew out to Calgary November 16 th . During our stay, we got to see several of my childhood friends, and surprisingly a ton of family! Of course we got to spend a lot of time with Ama and Grandpa Greg and Brig, but Grandpa Sevy surprised us and came to visit, then Brooke, Mike and Hannah drove up for Thanksgiving, and then for the cherry on top, Uncle Geoff and Kelty were in town for the Grey Cup, so we got to see them as well! Unfortunately,

As many of you have already heard, Trey's Mother, and one of the most incredible women, my biggest supporter and dearest friend passed away December 2nd. She died of bleeding on her brain a few days after neck surgery. Just stating that she is gone and how she died just doesn't seem right. I don't know if going into why she was so wonderful, and how I don't know what we will do without her, or why I haven't been able to write this till now will help, but I just don't know what else to do. So, I will try to somehow express myself. To say, she was my "Mother-in-law" never felt right. She was so much more. she was my second Mom, my advocate, my angel who would just show up, or say exactly what I needed, She was one of my closest friends, by business partner/boss, my reminder, the mother and biggest fan of my husband and most incredible Grandmother to my child. We used to talk several times a week, and almost always, she would remind me of something or thi