It was September 9 1971, and my mother was working in a restaurant that my parents bought in Orono with my father and she was 9 months along and that morning 3 of her waitresses up and quit and she was left to do all the work while my father cooked in the kitchen. As all the truck drivers and neighbouring folk would come on over for breakfast,  to get there steak and eggs and hash browns with a cup of java, my mother began to feel extreme pain and she began to bleed alot, and shortly there after my father rushed her to the Grace hospital, which is in downtown Toronto, and was quite a ways from Orono. She lost alot of blood and my mother feared she would lose me if they didn’t get to the hospital in time.

God was definitely with her that day and she gave birth to her little baby girl, and I am told and remember being a handful but cute and adorable and although a spirited child, I cared alot about others and always wanted to make people smile (who knew I would become a photographer one day and still make people smile,lol).

I can’t believe 39 years have passed by, flown by, and now that my oldest is 7 and my youngest is 4 I think where has the time gone? Kids grow up soo fast, too fast and then before you know it they are off and going off to school, getting married, having babies. This is just another reason why I feel the need to document everything I can, as you can always count on pictures, you can look back on precious and cherished images and the feelings and emotions of that day come right back, its actually a pretty awesome thing and I couldn’t have asked for a better job cuz I get to experience this feeling on a regular basis.

So for my 39th birthday, my hubby and my mom got me a Canon 5D Mark II and I am beyond thrilled and have had SO much fun with this camera, I just LOVE it! I’m also going out with a few of my girls tonight, its dinner and cake night and just time to hang out and chat and catch up, so I’m really looking forward to that.

This week was also the first week of school for my youngest, his first day in JK and my oldest is now in grade 2 and he’s a seasoned veteran and was showing his little brother all about “their” school. It was so cute and I managed to take a couple of shots of them,lol. So, below is a shot of the boys at home about to go to school and then a collage of them going to school. Then, I’m adding my fabulous cake! It’s just amazing and I am going to hate cutting into it but I can’t wait to eat it and am so torn,lol. It was made by Nicole Cadorin Varganyi of Krazy kakes, you can find her on facebook as her site is not working right now. I can’t thank her enough for the fantastic job she did, she definitely helped make my 39th birthday very special. Thanks again Nicole.

and my spectacular CAKE!!!

and a couple of shots of me as a kid.

My father and I feeding the pigeons in Athens Greece.

Greek easter, my father would always buy these huge chocolate basket, yes, its all made out of chocolate!!

this is my village in Kaloxilos, Naxos, Greece, where my grandmother and father were born and where I spent most of my summers as well.

And I just wanted to say thanks for all the wonderful and sweet bday related comments that so many of you left on my wall on facebook, it really meant so much to me and I can’t thank you all enough for your well wishes and for all the love that you have shown me, God bless.

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