14 Thursday Mar 2019
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08 Friday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, great times, International Women's Day, memories, moments, time, treat, visits, widow, women
over the last few days I’ve had the opportunity to spend a bit of time with some of the wonderful women who’ve been part of my life, but I haven’t seen much of recently…
had a great time on Wednesday evening with a very special woman in my life…
and was happy to find a young friend who has been connected to our family for many, many years… she spotted me at an event and came over for a few minutes to visit… how lovely to catch up on her life and family… one of many young women who has called me mom for years…
yesterday, at another event, spent a few minutes with a dear woman… it was just great to be in the same place and see her, even if we didn’t have much time together… I still melt when I recall her introducing me to someone as the mother of her heart...
later, another young friend stopped by the house for a few minutes… can’t even think of when we last spent time together…
reminders of how blessed I am and of the amazing women who are part of my circles, even when I don’t connect with them often…
great memories on this International Women’s Day…
feels as though this bouquet symbolizes the variety of women in my life… all beautiful, all different, and all making me happy…
04 Monday Mar 2019
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555, 7 years, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, gone, hoarfrost, memories, moments, nature, Park, pictures, remember, widow
tomorrow marks 7 years since my beloved left this earth…
Google tells me that it is 2,555 days since that day…
I’ve been remembering some of the fun things we did during those last weeks…
you would think after seven years it would get easier…
but it doesn’t …
this is the last picture I took with him… it was Sunday, March 4, 2012… we had taken a drive around the Park so I could get some photos of the beautiful hoarfrost… this tree is on the drive to the Park… he had to stop in the middle of the road so that I could get the shot I wanted;-)…
01 Friday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, light, moments, moon, pillar, pink sky, sky-watching, spectacular, sunrise, weather, widow
woke up early this morning and enjoyed some lovely sky-watching…
saw the most interesting light pillar… not long ago many photographers in the province had noted multiple columns in the sky, so I was excited to have spotted it…
the moon was visible out my bedroom window… and then there was a lovely sunrise…
spectacular way to start the day…
20 Wednesday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, exhaust, friends, fumes, gift, mailbox, noise, shortbread, sound, treat, trucks, widow
for the last two days there have been big trucks sitting outside of my office window… the noise has been rather stressful and we’ve also been overpowered on occasion by exhaust fumes…
so today when I arrived home, checked the mailbox and discovered a container filled with my favourite homemade shortbread cookies I was so pleased…
I ate three before even making it to the kitchen, lol…
friends are gifts;-)…
17 Sunday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, boot prints, car, prints, reminders, repair, snow, widow
recently, in amongst the times I was feeling sorry for myself, I’ve also been thinking of how blessed I am…
looked out the window into the backyard and could see the boot prints of my snow shoveler… how blessed am I to know that someone will come after it snows and clean my sidewalks and driveway…
had to take the car in because the plug for the block heater had been ripped off… lesson is, be careful who you lend your car to, lol…
anyway, I can afford to get it fixed properly…
good reminder for when I am feeling down;-)…
10 Sunday Feb 2019
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arrived, big girl pants, blessed, family, hot tub, iPhone, Ottawa, pictures, SHEday 2019, surprise, treat, widow
my older daughter, who lives in Ottawa, surprised me on Wednesday… she arrived to help with a big event I’ve been working on…
after the event, she was able to visit with a few of her friends and we spent Saturday in our jammies doing nothing…
it was divine as both of us have been very busy for the last month…
we made macaroni and cheese with lobster for supper… at the same time I learned more about Instagram stories and a new app that slices videos to Instagram size;-)… as I was going through my photos looking for one of the mac and cheese to put in this post, I was giggling because we took two sets of videos and there wasn’t a single photo of the process that was good enough to use, lol…
we did manage to get into the hot tub once… our usual routine is to spend a few minutes at the end of each evening there…
this morning we were up early and took our requisite selfie, lol… we used her fancy Huawei phone which has some smoothing aspect in the pic… we look pretty fine…
I got her to the airport by 6:30 am for her flight… and took our final selfie…
a wonderful gift…
27 Sunday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, coleslaw, dinner, family, food, lesson, memories, mother-in-law, recipe, widow
this afternoon I made coleslaw… I used a recipe from a lovely church lady who is long gone… we used to make this recipe when feeding large crowds of people…
since then I have written down the measurements for half and a quarter of the recipe… sometimes I would mess up, using an amount from the full recipe for one ingredient and then maybe half for the next, lol… learned my lesson…
this always reminds me of my mother-in-law... she would make coleslaw and just know the correct combination of dressing ingredients needed to go in for the amount she was making… and it always tasted perfect;-)…
I do sometimes wing it now… and it usually works out, but today I went back to the recipe and put the extra aside for another time…
memories…
filled a large bowl as my grandson was coming for dinner… only to learn he likes the creamy kind, lol…
going to have some every day this week…
19 Saturday Jan 2019
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admire, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, dishcloth, gifts, handmade, late, purple, spoiled, tree, widow
had a few late Christmas gifts over the last while…
so nice when that happens and you get to enjoy new treats…
I’d been admiring the tree for quite a while, so it was wonderful to have it given to me…
the purple piece under it is one of those lovely handmade dishcloths… I find them excellent in the kitchen and this one is a great shade…
spoiled, lol…
18 Friday Jan 2019
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bare hands, big girl pants, blessed, care for others, cold, faux, flowers, rose, safety, shelter, transportation, warmth, widow
on my drive in yesterday I watched a man walk across the street with bare hands… it was extremely cold and reminded me of the many who do not have the basics for this weather, sigh…
as I was leaving the office a man stopped and gave me a faux rose… he said
give this to someone and tell them you care, while you can…
then he gave me a second one, which he said was for me… at that point he asked if I had change for a cup of coffee… I advised I didn’t have any money on me so he took back one of the roses and merrily went in his way…
both reminders of how truly blessed I am… warm clothes to wear, a safe home to live in, a vehicle to get me around and work that makes me happy…
