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magical…

08 Thursday Mar 2018

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had a magical time with flowers today…

there were tulips at the office and I got time to take pictures for a social media post we were working on…

when I arrived home the sunlight was streaming through the living room window and making the vase of flowers look amazing… so I spent a lovely time taking pictures…

to top off the day, the house magically cleaned itself… it smelled good when I walked in and seeing the toilet paper folded was the confirmation…

well, the cleaners came although I hadn’t been expecting them, lol…

what a blessing…

icicles…

07 Wednesday Mar 2018

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big girl pants, early, end, good day, icicles, light, pictures, widow

headed in to the office early this morning, but look at the light;-)…

cold, but bright and sunny…

at the end of the day as I arrived home I got this great shot of icicles on the garage…

great start and end to my day…

falling…

06 Tuesday Mar 2018

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beautiful, big girl pants, change, falling, kids, shovel, snow, snowblow, storm, widow

there had been lots in the news for a few days that we were going to get a big snowstorm but we’ve dodged every one that had been mentioned all winter…

until Sunday night, lol… it started with rain and by morning everything was covered in snow…

and it kept falling all day… stopped late in the afternoon…

we are used to snow and storms here… most people went about their daily business… it was just a storm, lol…

when I got home I could not see where the sidewalk was… the snow had covered everything completely… even the trees were weighed down with the beautiful, but very heavy, snow…

I was very lucky because my kids came over and shoveled and snowblowed, clearing the sidewalks and driveway…

today it was as if nothing had happened… another example of how things can change in a very short time…

six…

05 Monday Mar 2018

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two thousand one hundred and ninety-one days since my beloved left me…

you would think that six years would make it easier…

some days it does seem a little easier… many days it doesn’t…

I do things that I’d never done before and I do them well… those big girl pants and all… but I would much rather have him beside me…

I continue to try to remember the good times and focus on them rather than feel sorry for myself… although there are certainly times when I wallow…

I’ve learned to feel those moments and sit in them and not push them aside… I believe that has helped me move forward…

as I write this the tears fall… over the last few weeks I’ve have been reminded of the days when George died and the memorial that followed… it has been very stress-filled as I have been reliving the hours and days immediately following his death…

thinking back to the police arriving at the door and my friends going with me to the hospital… not being told he had died, but walking into the room where his body was… calling my girls, and others… signing a form so that they could harvest his organs… going home to a house without him…

hard days… but today I got chocolate in the mail and bought myself a bouquet of flowers to make me smile;-)…

one step at a time on the journey…

collection…

04 Sunday Mar 2018

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angels, beams, big girl pants, collection, handmade, light, moments, pictures, puppets, sunlight, widow

had some fun with pictures today…

reorganized a few items and took a few shots…

angels have been part of my collections forever… now it has been reduced to just a small group…

a few are handmade puppets;-)…

when my eyes aren’t glued to the tv, this is what I see… can see beams of light early in the day and also midday as well…

I do love sunlight…

horses…

03 Saturday Mar 2018

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big girl pants, horses, polar bears, seals, widow, zoo

went to the zoo to see the polar bears, seals and horses…

got a few good photos… it was great to see the bears having fun in the water… and all the seals flitting from the inside pool to the outside…

we also had a lovely wagon ride around the Heavy Horse area…

got to see all six of the horses…

lovely day for a walk around the Zoo…

castles…

02 Friday Mar 2018

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bed, big girl pants, blessed, castles, dinner, exhausted, grandsons, ice, ice castles, The Forks, widow

had a wonderful evening with my two youngest grandsons…

met up with them around 4:30 and then we wandered The Forks, visited the Ice Castles and had dinner out…

they must have gone down the slides a dozen times… now we are home and in various beds watching tv…

what a blessing to have time with them… although I am exhausted, lol…

top…

01 Thursday Mar 2018

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gift, home, pictures, purple, top, widow

got a lovely gift today from a colleague who had been home for a holiday…

it is a dress, but I will have it shortened to make a very cute top… the detail around the neck is particularly nice… makes me feel a bit like a queen when I have it on;-)…

my colleague is hoping she will eventually convince me to wear a dress… can’t even remember the last dress I’ve worn… I do wear floor length dresses occasionally although at work they end up getting caught in the wheels of my chair… and I wear sarongs all the time at home…

as we were leaving the office, took a few shots of the lovely rose at her desk…

colour matches my new top…

patient…

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

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beautiful, big girl pants, full moon, moments, moon, patient, tulips, widow

there’s a beautiful full moon out there tonight…

didn’t even get my camera, just enjoyed a few wonderful moments of soaking it in…

my colleague is away but these tulips are patiently waiting her return… hope she gets back while they are still beautiful;-)…

missing…

27 Tuesday Feb 2018

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big girl pants, celebration of life, George, memorial, missing, new life, widow

rough day today…

attended a celebration of life with my colleagues… it was lovely…

gatherings like these are always hard for everyone… for me, they bring up the people who are missing in my life…

I’ve been thinking back to the day of George’s memorial… the stress as we all got ready in the house… the meltdowns, the tears… worrying about how the little boys would manage and not wanting them to have a bad memory of the day…

staying calm as the program took place and making sure that everyone was looked after… so many details and people to speak with…

and then it was over… and my new life began…

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