Monthly Archives: November 2019

While appreciation and thankfulness should be practiced everyday, the month of November celebrates gratefulness.  I would be remiss if I did not take this week, the week of Thanksgiving, to express the overwhelming and blessed thankfulness to the family and friends who undoubtedly carried me through in trying times. The outpouring of support and prayersContinue reading “Thankfulness, overwhelming”

Once the chaos dies down, the family and friends return to their own lives, you start to settle in to a “new normal.”  A normal that includes all the obligations of your pre-death-of-a-spouse life, but without the support and companionship. This was a very strange phase because I continued to move throughout each day inContinue reading “The New Normal”

February 14th, 2012.  Valentine’s Day.  Or in my case, the day that changed the direction of my life forever. Let’s set the scene.  My daughter, A, had just turned 8 years old two weeks prior.  My husband, B, was in the hospital, unconscious, on a ventilator and heart pump.  I was faced with an impossibleContinue reading “The day the whole world changed”