10 Monday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, people, photos, snow people, stairway, widow
had some fun on the stairway yesterday…
took a few pictures of the snow people;-)…
great reminder of each special piece…
09 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, buds, developing, flowers, moments, orchid, plants, surprise, treat, watering, widow
was wandering around watering the plants and had a lovely surprise…
usually I water on Saturday but was a bit behind so got to it this morning… was pleased that the paper whites have a couple of buds developing…
was at the mandevilla which has an orchid beside it – usually I keep the orchids for a year or two once they are finished blooming and then end up replacing them…
to my delight, I discovered four buds…
what a wonderful treat…
08 Saturday Dec 2018
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1993, big girl pants, conversation, end, friends, ReImagining, special, together, widow, women
since 1993 I’ve been meeting with a group of women regularly (nearly monthly) to discuss all kinds of things from religion, to spirituality, to politics, to healthcare, to family life… we’d have supper, check-in with one another, and then spend some time focussed on a topic of interest…
the size and membership of the group has changed over the years but there are a few who were there from the very beginning…
today we met to possibly end our gatherings… we had a wonderful lunch of chicken souvlaki, lemon potatoes, Greek salad and fresh buns… one of the meals we have enjoyed many times over the years…
we’ve met in one another’s homes, made food from scratch, brought food in from fancy shops, and ordered meals… it has always been about being together, more than what we were eating, lol… although we do love to eat;-)…
it was lovely to have the conversation about how important the group has been to everyone…
we’ve decided to continue to meet on a less regular basis, either around the equinox/solstice or a few times a year…
happy to know we will still gather as these are very special people to me… you don’t find women like this just anywhere…
07 Friday Dec 2018
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A1C, alarm, big girl pants, crazy, daughter, diabetes, doctor, focussed, health, quality of life, sleep, treadmill, treat, widow
crazy morning…
I usually set my alarm for 6:30 but always wake up before it goes off… I’ve been having trouble sleeping for the last week or so due to a sore neck so didn’t put on my alarm as it was my day off…
woke up to a call from my daughter at 7:51… unfortunately I had an 8 am doctor’s appointment;-(…
flew out of the house wondering what my blood pressure reading would be, lol…
was only a few minutes late as the office is close to home…
my blood pressure was great which was amazing but my A1C was not so great… still in the safe zone but it has been creeping up over the last year…
early on following my diabetes diagnosis I did not consume any sugar and was so strict with my diet that my life was overly focussed on food… the good news about that was how low I was able to bring down my A1C without meds… the bad news was that the strict eating was causing problems with my quality of life… since then the doctor and I agreed to relax my eating to find a happy medium…
today we decided that I need to find something between crazy strict and what I’ve been doing recently…
so, not so many treats… and I also think I need to be sure to spend a bit more time on the treadmill every day…
06 Thursday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, clever, garage door, new door, sky, stuffed, widow
had to stop and take a shot of the beautiful sky this morning as I was heading out to the garage…
lovely start to the day…
I’ve also been very happy to leave the house and get to the garage through the backyard… the cold has shifted the side garage door again and it isn’t closing again… for a while I was coming and going from the front door… rather a pain because I’d have to open the big door from the kitchen and then go out the front door… when I’d get home I’d have to walk through the house to click the door closer…
but recently I tried stuffing a rag between the door and the lock… it is a bit of a problem as I have to stuff it in whenever I open or close the door but way easier than having to use the front door all the time…
rather pleased that I figured this out, but in the Spring will need to have a new door installed…
05 Wednesday Dec 2018
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04 Tuesday Dec 2018
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on my way home from work today I stopped at Co-op to fill up the tank… I do not put gas in the car, mainly because I can’t stand the smell… my beloved always looked after making sure the car was always filled and at top performance…
today marks the seventh birthday for my beloved without him… he would have been seventy…
he liked the gas at Husky… something to do with the quality… for the longest time after he died my kids would fill up the tank for me whenever it was low…
finally I went to get gas, only to learn that they hadn’t pumped gas for ages, lol… pretty embarrassing…
so, now it is Co-op for me… happily they still serve…
today I had them wash the windows and they did a great job… having worked so long at his dad’s service station my beloved was very particular about the cleaning of windshields…
he would have been happy with the job… although maybe not so pleased with how dirty the car is, lol…
03 Monday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, blooms, fast, flowers, growing, paper, paper whites, widow
I planted these paper whites on Friday, November 23rd…
the second photo was taken a week later, on Friday, November 30th…
the third on Saturday, December 1st…
I just took the last one this evening…
growing like crazy and it hasn’t even been that sunny…
looking forward to the blooms… wonder when that will be…
02 Sunday Dec 2018
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angels, beloved, big girl pants, Christmas, decorating, friends, glitter, lustre, ornaments, purple, reindeer, santas, silver, snow people, snowflakes, trees, widow
for the last few years a dear friend has come over to help me with the Christmas decorating…
I’ve always loved Christmas but since the loss of my beloved it has lost a bit of its lustre…
this year I’ve been working away on my own to decorate… I decided to try some different options… took me a few weeks but it is done now…
have put my tree collection in the dining room where my pottery usually lives… and even passed along some pieces, yay for me;-)…
put up a new tree with purple and silver decorations and hung up the glass balls on either side of the picture above the sofa…
put the snow people up the stairs…
got a garland going along the ledge in the dining room… final piece was to put the glittery trees on the fish tank…
still might have my friend come by to check it all out…
then going to go through the rest of the Christmas boxes and maybe pass some decorations along to others…
there are the reindeer, the snowflakes, the nativities, the angels, the santas…
01 Saturday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, blog, days, loss, moments, posts, snail’s pace, widow
I wrote my first blog on December 1, 2012… it was nine months since my beloved died and I had gone through many difficult times as I learned what it meant to be a widow…
not really sure if the time has flown by or moved at a snail’s pace…
that day I was just going to see what WordPress was all about, lol…
Google tells me it has been 2191 days and I’ve posted almost every one of those and twice on a few…
that first day I put up this picture… it was of flowers that my colleagues sent me…
it is still one of my favourite shots…
every day when I write a post I check to see if the title has been used before… always interesting to see what I’ve written previously… sometimes I am surprised at what I’ve posted… other times I can remember every word…
life has changed a whole lot in six years… but I am still getting used to the new journey…
I am blessed but miss my beloved every day…
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