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Funny how we keep tabs of how long it’s been since a spouse passed away. It’s an anniversary date of heartbreak. Why would we keep it and remind ourselves? I think it’s a measure of how we are doing since that day, and after a year it will probably be an annual anniversary rather thanContinue reading “Five Months Today”

I have been receiving great comments and suggestions. Allthingsmomma gave me her insight on good easy reading about grief. One in particular, Grief Day by Day, by Jan Warner, peaked my interest so I checked it out and after reading a sample, purchased it. I really like it so far. Another person made a commentContinue reading “Networking through blogging is working!”

I have been with family or a friend ever since my husband died last August. As I think about it, I really have never been alone, as I always had my children to deal with and my husband. Now my children are grown and have children and grandchildren of their own. Staying at my son’sContinue reading “I Don’t Like Being Alone”

Have you ever experienced something that triggers a happy memory or feeling from your childhood? Occasionally that will happen to me. I will recognize the feeling but can’t quite put my finger on the memory. It could be an old tune, an old saying, an old movie, but not strong enough to bring up theContinue reading “That Happy Place”

Everyone has their own beliefs and I respect that. I myself am a Christian and find great comfort because of that. My husband and I had gone from church to church trying to find one that fit us and when we moved to our little mining town in the mountains we found a little logContinue reading “Today Was A Good Day”

I realized this morning as I shopped on my Kindle for another book to read as I had just finished my third one in about a week, that I had been looking forward to going to bed again so I could read my book. My days are so busy that night time has always beenContinue reading “What Do I Look Forward To?”

New challenges, new insights. This morning after reading a comment on my last blog, it made me think about all the widows I had encountered over the years and how, in my mind, they seemed to be handling it so well. Now I wonder. Were they just hiding or stuffing their emotions like many ofContinue reading “Second Day of a New Year”

As I start my first day of 2020, I thought about going forward one day at a time through this year and dealing with what is in front of me right now. A thought occurred to me as I was saying my morning prayer: Ted and I always said we thought we were soul mates.Continue reading “Is He Really Gone?”

I celebrated the new year with my daughter and her husband, playing games to pass the time, listening to music, and watching the clock. When the New Year rang in, we went outside and hollered “Happy New Year”, clanged some metal cooking lids together to make noise, and then they tried to light some fireContinue reading “2020 Vision”

Valentines Day. For 37 years my husband and I celebrated this day as our special anniversary of when he finally got me to go out with him after four months of trying. If I hadn’t finally given in, we wouldn’t have had all these wonderful years together. We would usually do something very special onContinue reading “Run From it or Face it Head on”