Embry.

But I am sure you all guessed that.

When he was three, I made the first batch of red velvet heart shaped doughnuts for him.  We had “coffee” (1 part coffee to 5 parts hot chocolate for him) and doughnuts and watched Popeye cartoons.  The following year, he started to ask me about a week before Valentine’s Day if we were going to have red doughnuts and coffee again. It became our tradition to have those doughnuts every year for Valentine’s Day. So, this…

To many of us family means everything.   And my family is unlike any other.  I was an only child.  No siblings growing up but being on the Rez there were always other kids to hang with.   With the pack, it's like a big extended family.  I'm as close to my pack brothers as I would have been with blood siblings.  Emily and Rachel are the sisters I never had.  And Shay, Mak, and Sammy are the next generation of our family.  

Soon our family will grow again.  Its been a few…

I had always wondered what it would have been like if Embry had been a girl instead of a boy. How it would have been to raise a daughter. Although they were older when Sarah died, after some time I got a taste of what it would be like with Rachel and Rebecca. I didn’t raise them, but I saw Sarah with them as they were growing up. In time, after she died, her girls would come to me occasionally to talk. Once I started to take care of Billy, Rachel and I grew closer, more of a friendship at…