Tanis Marwill

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[Tanis Marwill @TanMarwill]

Love this, it is so true!

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

The Last Snowman

I’m at that stage of life where I’m starting to realize that some moments might be happening for the last time.

Yesterday, my middle son and I built a snowman :-). Yes, this 60-year-old doc's child comes out every now and then.

Fresh snow, quiet air, the kind of morning that feels suspended outside of time. He’s graduated from college. His life is already pulling him west…toward love, toward opportunity, toward whatever comes next. And as we packed snow between our hands, shaping it into something temporary and imperfect, I realized this might be the last time we do this together.

Not the last time we’ll talk. Not the last time we’ll laugh. Not the last time we’ll see each other.

But the last time we’ll build a snowman.

No one tells you how parenting changes. At first, it’s all beginnings. First steps. First words. First days of school. You’re trained to look forward, always forward. And then, without warning, life quietly starts handing you endings instead. Not loud ones. Soft ones, often unannounced.

You don’t get a notification that it’s the last time they’ll fall asleep on your shoulder. Or the last time you’ll hold their hand crossing a street. Or the last time you’ll all be living under the same roof.

You just live through them. And only later do you realize what they were.

I want my kids to move on. I want them to chase what calls them. I want them to build lives that are expansive, brave, and unmistakably theirs. I’m proud of their independence. Proud of their curiosity. Proud of who they’re becoming.

But pride doesn’t erase grief.

It just lives beside it.

I’m climbing what’s been referred to as my Second Mountain now. The first was about building, proving, and accumulating. This one feels different, quieter, and far more deliberate. It’s less about adding, more about distilling. Less about what I achieve per se, and more about what and who I carry forward.

And with that shift comes questions that don’t always have clean answers.

Was I present enough? Did I listen well? Did I prepare them for what I couldn’t protect them from? What did I miss while I was busy building everything else?

I don’t know. Maybe no one ever really does.

Yesterday, we built a snowman.

But, for me,  it wasn’t really about the snowman. Well… maybe a little about the snowman.

But… It was about time. About becoming…. and about letting go without letting love leave. About standing in that strange, tender overlap where past, present, and future all exist at once.

If that really was our last snowman, I’m grateful I was there for it.

[Tanis Marwill @TanMarwill]

@guyfelicella It makes me sad when I see how many Canadians are worried about Trump when they should be deeply concerned about what Carney is doing to Canada & how little he cares about Canadians!

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@SuburbanPolly Of all the things that didn't happen... A liberal that doesn't lie was found.

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@GG37374104 What a great idea!

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@Martyupnorth We moved back to AB after 8 yrs in the BC interior for that very reason.

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@ronsterd89 Players light King size.

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@BrendaB63153826 this was above the golf course today! Pretty but we have been wondering what made it happen.

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@KelliDPowers @jk_rowling 100% why should real women step aside for confused men? We are women & these men will not move into our space without a fight!!!

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@MarkJCarney @Dave_Eby on one condition.... the Fn's own the land? What a total bunch of bullshit!

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@AdamtrendHQ If we have to have a clear picture without any face covering in Canada then anyone entering Canada has to follow the same rules! If they don't like it they can go home.

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@Victoria59L Carney = snake naturally have a spine that curves from side to side in an "S-shape," which is how they are able to slither, climb, and coil. Unlike humans snakes do not have testicles ("balls")

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@Savage16May So true !

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@ForgiatoBlow47 Grow up!

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@GG37374104 100% Robin. They live a totally different life with standards in many cases far below what we do. I will not change my ways to make them feel better. We do not go into establishments owned & operated by "them" as cleanliness & food handling are well under acceptable standards.

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@JasminLaine_ Nothing doesn't take long...But the BS does & Libs specialize in BS.

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@lippyent Spam you can fry & pretend its a steak! Elbows up people do it & they cancel Disney prime so they can afford the spam🙃🙃

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@Caroline_649 100%

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@Sassafrass_84 Salami, ham or meatloaf leftovers

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@ThrillaRilla369 No. Most places have "family washrooms" where it is private.

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@eunice84833 @vivscontent @Read_Meee Selfish is a word I use for a response like yours.

[Tanis Marwill @TanMarwill]

@Read_Meee As a Mom who is turning a big number this week & the one thing that we wish for is to hear from our kids on our B day. Just 2 words & 1/2 a min. We understand our kids are busy because we were also. I never waited until after school to wish my kids a Happy Birthday did your Mom?