Who is Flipper?

Some of you know, others don't, and a couple of you gave the name to me!
I've always enjoyed having a nickname that reminds me of a time that I was young, making the best friends of my life, dating my husband, and all that youth implies.
I have large feet thanks to a family tree of men whom I love with all my heart but couldn't they have given me some other "gift"? And at the time that I began my student life at Laurentian University I was an avid swimmer and lifeguarding competitor.
Now, I don't hear it as often....Shawna, Mark, Kara and some of the Renaud's.
As a term of endearment from Chris.
And its tatooed on my ankle.

And so it begins...

Well, a friend of mine (thanks Sam!) shared in her Holiday card, the address to her blog. I thought it an interesting alternative to the "Holiday Letter" that I avoid writing due to lack of time, and the feeling that no one really cares. I found myself checking it periodically, and have come to enjoy being kept up to date with a family so similar to ours. Admittedly, I feel like a voyeur, but of course, when you are invited...it doesn't count.

And so I have invited you, to share in the weekly (hopefully) account of the lives of myself and my children, and maybe even my husband - if he doesn't mind. Because you are important to me, and if we lived many years ago, I might have hand written you letters as my Grandmothers did. Where they found the time, I'll never know.
Welcome.