Do you know Meghan Evans?

May is a month that gives us all the opportunity to celebrate the amazing mothers in our lives. The True North Team ran a Momma Makeover contest for the April/May issue. We received so many touching entries with such inspirational stories that it was almost painful to only pick two winners. While we weren’t able to provide all of these amazing moms with a makeover, we would like to celebrate them and those who nominated them by sharing their stories throughout this month. We hope they will touch you the way they touched us, or at least remind you to give that special mom in your life just a little extra love each day.

Loving our children, for all of us, is the easy part. Meghan, aka mama, does not get special points for loving this incredible chunky-monkey of beautiful baby that has blessed our lives. The joy of that love is the fuel for this journey of parenthood.


The marvel of mommy-hood often exists in the mundane. Meghan keeping the fridge full while feeding dada and searching for different foods for Hope to try approvingly and disapprovingly (sometimes daily), cleaning a toy scattered home, feeding the pets, running errands, making those endless call backs, handling this repair and that service, these take so much of a mommy’s time. I can hear Meghan saying “please nap just a little longer so I can…vacuum, wash, clean the bath, etc”.

Toss on top of those chores a woman running her own design business, somehow kept afloat in a terrible economy, with phone calls, emails, and appointments timed around naps and one daddy-daughter day a week. A woman who, while pregnant, began a charity to help feed horses of families hit by the economy. That charity has now fed over a hundred horses through last winter and so far this winter.

There is no day care, nor nanny, nor cleaning service in Meghan’s world. Wonderful necessities those are for many people. And a wonderful gift that we have been able to have Hope with us these first fifteen months of her life. Now Meghan is handling all these challenges while carrying baby two. Nausea and tiredness included free of charge.

As the “dada”, I am endlessly impressed by what my wife can handle. I respect and admire her more than she probably knows. And, quite simply, I could not handle my life without the support and patience Meghan freely gives daily. She certainly earns my respect and admiration a hundred times over.

However, the love I feel, the joy that sends me soaring, comes in the person I see Hope becoming. She is such a happy baby, full of smiles and laughs, daily learning new things taught to her in a loving fun way. I come home from work and mommy says, “Hope, what does a duck say?” and yes the little quacks are too cute for words. “Hope, show daddy your nose…and your ears...and your feet”. “Hope, where is your kitty in the puzzle, where’s the cow, and the sheep?” Hope helps dress herself, holds a spoon (successfully reaching her mouth with food now and again), she knows many signs, and many activities. These are not boasts about an exceptional baby; I know babies are learning these things all the time. However, these things have to be taught, they take time and patience. For Hope to learn these in a happy fun way from a mom that handles all those other stresses of life, that to me is remarkable. So many moms are remarkable, Hope and I just happen to believe ours is the best!