About My Passions

Singing

I've loved music as long as I can remember. I grew up singing in church plays and at school. During high school, I took vocal lessons as well. I planned to be a voice performance or music education major in college, but decided I liked it more just singing for fun. I sang karaoke throughout college and just after. I then took a break for several years and just did the usual singing most people do, in the car or in the shower. In 2019, I rediscovered my love of karaoke and began going weekly up until COVID hit. I don't go often anymore, but hope to make it there more frequently (or at all!) going forward. 

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Surrogacy

Everyone you meet that has been a surrogate before has been asked likely hundreds of times how they became a surrogate. For me, it was a miscarriage I had when completing my own family. That devastation is something I never wanted anyone to go through or to feel alone in their own journey. I vowed to myself that I would be a surrogate for a family as soon as I completed my family and that's exactly what I did with my first surrobabe who was born in 2011. 

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I completed five surrogacy journeys and I am so honored and blessed to have been able to carry and deliver five babies for four different families. They live all over the world and I have made lifelong friends in the process. 

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I get asked a lot how I could do it, carry a baby and give that baby to someone else. My answer is usually a combination of things, but typically I clarify that it's their baby and I am just giving their child back to them. I also say that I can't imagine ever having said no if I could say yes. What I've gotten out of my surrogacy journeys and working in the surrogacy industry for years far exceeds what I feel I've done in return. To some that may sound crazy, but I don't know who I would be to this day without those experiences as it's made me who I am today. 

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Sports

If you already read my "10 Facts About Me" page or any part of this website for that matter (haha), you'll know I'm a huge Philly sports fan (well for football, baseball, and basketball; sorry hockey fans!). Before you jump to conclusions (as almost everyone inevitably does), I am not one of "those" fans that is the stereotype of Philly fans. Honestly so few of us are, but the media and all of you seem obsessed with the narrative so I'll take it and let you say whatever you want. I am VERY passionate about my teams, but I also support my friends and their teams and wish them well (unless they are playing my teams of course). You find won't be talking to shit to the teams of my friends. Course none of them are Cowboys fans or I may have a different answer for this. 

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My love of sports goes back to my childhood. I feel that Eagles fans all say a similar thing in that we were born and raised a Birds fan. "Sundays are for the Birds!"  I remember very well sitting in the living room on Sunday afternoons watching the games with the family. It was a way of life and I feel such a sense of family among all Birds fans when I meet them at games! (which is once a year since I started an annual tradition 3 seasons go)