DisneyDiva

WARNING: This post is going to be real, messy, honest. A friend of mine recently sent me this blog post . It describes how I'm feeling perfectly. Recently, I've been struggling with depression. Well, I've had depression since my daughter was born in 2013 - which I have been treating, however it seems to have crept up and become less manageable recently. Why am I sharing this with you? Because I want to be real. Because I know I'm not the only one who feels this way, especially as a mom. Many moms go around in a haze and are torn up and yet they put on their smiles and fake it till they make it. I'm not so great at that. I am a decent actress, but I don't want to be fake with those I love and care about. I'm hoping if you are in this place too, this post may give you peace in knowing you aren't alone and maybe encourage you to get help. Let me back this train up a bit: Since my dad died in 2006, I have become pretty self-aware of how I am feeling

My husband and I have come up with a mind-blowing theory about the relationship between Big Hero 6's Aunt Cass  and The Incredibles' Mom - Elastigirl Oops...I mean Helen Parr... Ummm....sorry Helen, I definitely meant Elastigirl. As we watched Big Hero 6, we both couldn't help but think of The Incredibles. Helen & Cass seemed so similar in so many ways - the big eyes, the hair, their voices were slightly similar, and their sense of humor. It turns out in our theory, Helen Parr AKA Elastigirl, is actually Aunt Cass' sister. The superhero nature just runs in their blood, apparently. Helen and Cass had a brother. Their brother was Hiro & Tadashi's father. Although it seems like it would've been a wise decision to send Hiro & Tadashi to live with the Parr family AKA The Incredibles seeing as how they already had 3 kids, Hiro's father & mother made the decision that if anything were to happen to them, they'd want his sister C

HEIDI'S NOTE: I just finished writing this whole blog and realized how incredibly long, monotonous and picture heavy this may be for someone not involved in our every day activities. So, if you are feeling courageous (and incredibly bored), scroll on down for the thorough run-through of our year. Otherwise, here is the short version:  ME: I broke both of my feet at the end of November 2013, so until the end of January, I walked around in two walking boots. Caring for a toddler and an infant with two broken feet was quite the challenge. Fast forward 3 months - I ran a 5k - then at the beginning of September, I ran my first Disneyland 10k and then in November, I ran my first official half-marathon!! I felt so proud of myself for achieving that after hardly being able to walk less than a year before. That was the biggest accomplishment of my year. However, my other big accomplishment was being cast as Inga in Young Frankenstein the Musical, where I had to learn to yodel. :) It