good luck at your feis keri! hope it all goes well! we're thinking of you!

I'll start from the beginning. I find it helps. I am the oldest of 7 children, which is rare, I know. I was born in Ottawa, Canada and lived there until i was 18, when I moved into an appartment in downtown Montreal with my friends to go to school. 2005 was my graduation and start into the real world. It was also a very difficult time and a highlight on the newspages of my family's history. 2005 brought plenty of stuggles, and lots of new things, changes I had never known in my family. My dad moved into an appartment in Montreal, not far from where i was living at the time, with my sister Kristina and two brothers Kyle and Kalvin. That summer my mum and three sisters Rhiley, Robyn and Emily moved to Italy to be closer to family. It was hard, at that time I felt so alone. I no longer had a home in Canada to live. I no longer trusted my father. My best friend then was a guy I'd met at university who went by the name Johnny Rocket. He was a hot shot band going leather wearing sort of guy, and we'd been friends for nearly three years. Johnny and a friend of mine, Heather as well as myself spent the next three months wasting our would be rent money on traveling around Asia and eastern Europe. By later that year my father had remarried and Johnny and I found ourselves in a serious relationship. We later moved into a joined house in the North West Territories looking for work to remake the money we'd so ruthlessly spent over the past year. On New Year's Eve, Johnny proposed to me ten seconds to midnight, and so I said yes. We were broke and in love, just like any other typical love story. 2007 was also a lucky year for my mother, who also found love in a friend, and married before the year was over. Shortly after our engagement, I discovered something rather mirraculous and somewhat frightening. You guessed!! Pregnant. Fortunately for me I wasn't the only one. My new step mother, Kelly, announced her pregnancy somewhat melodramaticaly to my father's children in January of that year. May brought my mother's wedding, which was beautiful and long awaited in China to a fantastic man named Dan, who I love very much. June brought the arrival of my step brother Ronney.  July was the big month for me. On July 8, Thaijise Winnifred Mortella-Greene was born. In October of that year both Johnny and I accepted jobs in the Edmonton range, which was convenient since we'd been living there for nearly half a year. That year also moved my mother, three sisters and step father to Germany for work. 2008 passed smoothly and happily, starting with a bang of my brother and his fiance announcing their engagement and pregnancy. So many babies. My mother must feel so old. So in May Annastasia and Kyle gave birth to their first child, Ella-Jane, in Seoul, Korea. In December I also announced Johnny and I were expecting our second child. This was wonderful because Dan paid for us all to be together for the holiday season, the first time in 4 years. Johnny, Thaijise and I have been in Nuremburg since, enjoying Germany and looking for a house. This week is the next landmark, bringing about the arrival of Rozalia Sara Mortella-Greene. There is a somewhat brief life story!!