05 Thursday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, different, little free library, moments, morning, new-to-me, walk, weather, widow
today I added a couple of books to my stair library…
picked them up at a Little Free Library on my morning walk…
both are from some of my favourite authors;-)…
this was a new-to-me library as I took a slightly different route today…
15 Thursday Sep 2016
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big girl pants, different, expectations, open, reminder, steeple, stuck, view, widow
been thinking about different points of view… and how important it is to be open to looking at things from another perspective…
had a few opportunities lately to think about, and look at, things from another angle… it is good to be reminded that there are many ways to see things…
sometimes I can get stuck on one idea, and not be able to see some of the other ways of looking at it…
at lunch today was looking at the steeple from a different view…
same steeple, but different…
a great reminder not to expect others to be a certain way…
nice view…
13 Wednesday Jul 2016
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beloved, big girl pants, brave, complete, different, home, journey, mandevilla, strength, widow
recently had a conversation with someone about having that person at home you can tell anything to and they will immediately take your side…
this is one of the things I miss about being on my own… my beloved would listen to my version of whatever it was and be ready to go and do anything needed to sort out the situation… so often I would then have to calm him down, lol, but just knowing that he was always in my corner was so wonderful…
I miss him in different ways on different days… he really did complete me…
in these 1590 days I have continued to learn things and gain strength each step of this new journey… I am braver, stronger, healthier and maybe smarter… maybe…
mandevilla bud…
20 Sunday Dec 2015
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tonight we had Christmas dinner and exchanged gifts with our Ottawa kids…
first time that I’ve celebrated Christmas on a different day… felt very odd… a new way of being and hopefully not the norm…
we had supper after 7, which was different as well… for fun we had a bottle of champagne…
the boys did not like the taste of champagne, lol, but they enjoyed some sparkling cider…
dinner was great, except for the fussy brussel sprout recipe… everything was ready ahead of time and they got over cooked…
everyone liked their gifts, we had more of the Deadly Chocolate Mousse for dessert, a final visit and the kids went home…
we are all heading to bed here… too tired for a hot tub, lol…
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