Aloha! I’m a brand marketer by day and full-time wife, girl boss, and soon-to-be mommy to a baby girl living in the suburbs just outside Toronto, Canada. I find excitement in discovering and eating my way through new culinary experiences, traveling the world, and simply soaking in every possible ray of sun by the pool. I have a penchant for fashion, home decor, and have the weirdest obsession with pineapples… you’ll see.
Becoming Mrs. Duo
My husband Kevin and I met through work in 2013 and have essentially been inseparable ever since. He’s analytical and she’s creative. He’s good with numbers and she loves words. He grew up playing sports and she grew up with music. He cooks and she cleans (well, sort of). While we’re different in so many ways, we bring out the best in each other. There’s no doubt that we are better together.
Soon after getting married in 2017, we sold our condo in our favourite neighbourhood in Toronto and moved out to the suburbs into our dream, “far-too-big-at-the-time” house and continued trying to expand our family. After almost two years of trying on our own, we were faced with the reality of infertility and started working with a fertility clinic to pave our way to our miracle baby… a baby girl, that we are expecting to arrive in January 2020! [Read more about our struggles and experience with infertility]
How Happily Ever Duo Started
Through our fertility journey, I created a new Instagram account (@makingbabyduo at the time) to document the highs and lows of our journey. Little did I know, I joined a huge ‘unspoken’ community of women struggling through the same thing that ended up being my 24/7 support team and “tribe” during a very isolating time in my life.
As someone who usually only shares her highlight reel of successes and shiny, sparkly things, I naturally hid our fertility journey with the majority of people in our lives. There was so much shame, embarrassment, and hopelessness bottled inside until we eventually got pregnant and I knew I wanted to break the stigma around infertility and create some awareness around it. Speaking about it openly has been one of the most freeing, but necessary things, and I look forward to continue encouraging transparency and conversation around the topic– something that many women and couples suffer silently through.