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canvas…

11 Wednesday Dec 2019

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artwork, beloved, big girl pants, boxes, canvas, final, memories, orchid, plant whisperer, plants, purple, retirement, widow, work

last night we brought home the last of the plants, which included two good sized orchids…

it has been bitterly cold the last few days, but it appears that they made the trip okay… my colleague warmed up the car and the plants were wrapped with plastic… both of these directives were provided by our office plant whisperer;-)…

tonight the final collection of items consisted of two boxes and my artwork…

we were especially careful with my canvas because I plan to replace the one that is currently on the purple living room wall…

tomorrow I won’t have anything to bring home, other than me...

alarm…

10 Tuesday Dec 2019

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alarm, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, change, moments, reading, relax, rest, widow

this morning I let the alarm go off and let it play the whole song as I considered that I will only need it for two more days…

I might have to get up early in the future, but not for work;-)…

usually I wake up before the alarm rings, so I don’t often have to turn it off…

two more days… hard to believe I have made it to this place… it is exciting and a bit scary…

going to start with lots of rest, relaxation, and maybe even some reading…

71…

04 Wednesday Dec 2019

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71, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, memories, moments, photos, remembering, treat, widow

woke up this morning thinking of my beloved… he’s been gone for seven and a half years, and I miss him every day…

I try not to use the same photos in more than one medium, but this is one of my favourites, so I am sharing it broadly…

he would have been 71… in his honour I made bacon and eggs over easy for breakfast, lol…

put on a purple plaid shirt and jeans… he was always in jeans and had a favourite plaid shirt that he often wore…

after a busy day, my grandson met me at work, we ran a few errands and had dinner out…

ended our meal with apple crisp and ice cream… my beloved made the best apple pie;-)…

lovely day filled with happy memories…

lookalike

25 Monday Nov 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, friends, grandson, lookalike, pictures, see it, widow

my friends often tell me that my oldest grandson looks like my beloved… but I don’t see it…

recently my daughter sent me a photo she came across… it was in an album that belonged to her grandmother, my beloved’a mom…

when I first looked at it I wondered where she’d got the picture of my grandson, lol…

then I realized it was my beloved…

a photo from high school, so over fifty years old, but it is still in good shape… and a similar age to my grandson now…

here is a photo from my grandson’s grade twelve graduation…

they do look alike;-)…

I see it!!!

planner…

22 Friday Nov 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, finances, journey missing, moments, planner, remembering, retirement, widow, work

I’ve been thinking about life a lot lately having to sort through the finances with my financial planner to make sure that I could actually afford to stop working…

thinking of how different our life would have been if my beloved were still here and we were doing this planning together…

missing him a lot these days…

this time was supposed to be fun for the two of us together, but now it will only be me and a new curve on my journey…

I’m looking forward to it but I sure wish that he was here with me…



the view out the window tonight…

oil…

10 Sunday Nov 2019

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aquasize, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, fish, food, French fries, memories, moments, oil, widow

made fish and chips for my supper recently…

the house smelled of cooking oil… triggered some lovely memories…

on aquasize night when I got home, there would always be fish and chips ready…

and my beloved made the world’s best french fries…

widow…

04 Monday Nov 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blog, followers, loss, memories, moments, Technology, widow

just reached 350 followers on WordPress…

laughed the other day when a friend introduced me and said that I had 3000 followers… really made me giggle, lol… 300… 3000… very close;-)…

it has taken six years to reach that number…

had me thinking of the changes over that time… how the blog has gone from information on what to do when you become a widow/widower to my daily life…

my life really has been blessed… as I continue to put on those big girl pants…

transfer…

01 Friday Nov 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Facebook, family, fun, goldfish, grandsons, moments, photos, pictures, pond, transfer, widow

this morning I came across these pictures on Facebook…

they are from eleven years ago… before our youngest grandson was born…

a reminder for me that the boys have helped transfer the fish for many years…

I am able to enjoy these memories most of the time now when I come across them… not nearly so difficult to see photos of my beloved, which is a good thing…

review…

29 Tuesday Oct 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, organized, prepared, review, widow, will

recently I’ve heard a lot about Wills…

today on tv they were discussing the need for one, and how most people don’t get that piece of organization done…

I did mine in July of 2012… and I likely need to update it as they mentioned you should review it every five years or so…

amazingly, it has been over seven years since it was written… it was shortly after my beloved died and I was getting ready to have major surgery… I wanted to have my affairs in order on the chance that I didn’t make it… wanted things to be as easy as possible for the girls…

rather proud that I was able to put my fingers on it right away when I went looking, lol…

searched…

27 Sunday Oct 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, condo, family, fish, garden, grandsons, pond, searched, son-in-law, widow

all the boys came for dinner tonight…

they searched for fish in the pond, but the fish are trying really hard not to be found… wish we could tell them they are going to freeze if they don’t come into the condo;-(…

my son-in-law is much more patient than the younger boys although he only caught a few… two more of the babies and one bigger one…

we talked about catching the fish with grandpa and how the three biggest ones have been in the tank and pond since before he died…

we will continue to see if we can find more… still time before the pond freezes over…

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