Month: April 2019

I have been struggling with this particular topic.  Not making alliterations, that was a game Ashley and I played when naming things like our cars, our dog, our kids…  We never stuck to the alliteration but Ashley liked the word play. Toews Taube was my leading name for Fischer.  (For those of you that are not hockey fans, its pronounced Taves.)  When Ashley shot that down, I tried to come up with crazier names. Didn’t work, but I almost had her convinced that we could make his middle name Danger, so that he could always […]

So this is not my typical blog post. I have been very open in this blog but what is on my heart today is for Fischer, Baker and Ashley. So instead, I share with you my feelings for Ashley back before we were even a couple. This is the first birthday card that I wrote Ashley in 2005. We were not dating. (That story or at least part of it is in a future post. Also, I had not honed my writing skills yet so that card is more statements of fact rather than poetic […]