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Things that have happened in just the last few days: Shut off valve to bathroom sink started leaking. Toilet ring also needed replacing as it was leaking all over the laminate floor. Kitchen faucet started leaking also. Oven pilot lite wouldn’t lite oven. Had to order all the parts. MC trailer had a flat soContinue reading “NEXT?”

I have been pushing myself daily to get stuff done before April 1st when hopefully my nightmare tenant has moved out. I haven’t been out of the house in a week. I asked my grandson yesterday how my steep mile long uphill climb to my driveway and down to my house is doing. The snowContinue reading “Embrace it!”

It’s hard to pull something good out when you are going through the grief we are facing daily, especially when having to change from the place you were with them to a new place. Not only are you forced to go through their things, but also your own. Being forced to downsize and get ridContinue reading “Something Good Seems to Make Its Way Out of Something Bad”

Today I started on my clothes. I was surprised at how many clothes I was able to let go of. I will be moving into a smaller place. I left Ted’s clothes still hanging so it won’t be so empty looking right now and as soon as I can donate them, they will be gone,Continue reading “It’s Amazing How Quick We Can Bounce Back”

Ok, I finally got the courage to go through his hanging clothes. It wasn’t too bad until I got to his suits. The one he wore to our wedding, the one he wore to funerals, and then it started. My insides were torn up again. When you try to be strong sometimes by holding inContinue reading “The Sun is Shining, Things Are Looking Up”

I managed to put off working on Ted’s stuff as long as I could this morning, then finally and reluctantly began. It was hard again for a while, then when I was just doing the T-shirts, and plenty of them, my emotions began to settle down. After that I was back into more cupboards andContinue reading “Today Was a Better Day”

Wow! I thought putting together three memorials was hard. It doesn’t even compare to the raw hurt that makes you feel like your insides are being torn or ripped apart! Especially when I had to go through the bag of all the clothes from the trip we were on, and his bag of things fromContinue reading “This is so Much HARDER than I THOUGHT!”

After seven long months I am finally able to start the tedious task of going through Ted’s stuff. And yes, stuff! He would empty his pockets onto his chair in the walk-in closet and when that was full, he evidently moved it all to the counter under his wall of shirts! I took a basketContinue reading “And So It Begins…”

Just when you think you are getting a control on your life again, along comes something to spiral it out of your reach. My dear friend who flew here to support me, is leaving tomorrow, a week earlier than planned, because of the Coronavirus. She is worried they will close the airports and wants toContinue reading “Outside Influences”

Just when we think we can’t take anymore, things start to turn around. Sometimes we can get so close to that edge of the cliff it gets scary. But if we wait just one more day, we get a glimmer of hope, and things start to turn around. Even if it is turning slowly, atContinue reading “In The Midst of The Storm, There is Hope”