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…
30 Wednesday Oct 2019
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backing, big girl pants, family, memories, parents, poppy, remembering, widow
picked up a poppy the other day…
dug around and found a backing piece and put the poppy on my jacket… I hate to lose them…
it feels important to wear this sign of respect for our veterans and those who serve now…
I remember my mom and dad, my father-in-law and my son-in-law…
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…
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…
21 Monday Oct 2019
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I’m not sure why but I love bendy buses…
I’ve ridden in them in Ottawa, when visiting my daughter and son-in-law… there are lots of them there…
there haven’t been many here until recently…
for whatever reason they’ve been driving down the street by our office and I got a photo the other day…
not sure why, but when I see them they make me smile…
16 Wednesday Oct 2019
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big girl pants, everyone, family, fish, shopping, sushi, time together, widow
recently had a wonderful afternoon with my grandson…
he picked me up and took me to vote at the advance poll… then we went out for sushi and a visit to what is becoming our favourite fish store…
from there it was on to Costco, where everyone in St. James appeared to have decided to go at the same time as us, lol…
home and he helped put everything away, including all of the items that needed to go downstairs…
then it was off home to make supper for his siblings…
13 Sunday Oct 2019
one of the things I love about Thanksgiving is the preparation…
today is my day for prepping… I’ve been making Thanksgiving dinner for decades and I’ve got it down to a science, lol…
I do miss my beloved’s help… besides making sure the house was clean and tidy ~ particularly the front closet, lol, he often made apple pie from scratch… yesterday a Facebook reminder from ten years ago mentioned the smell of apples being peeled for pie…
used the mandolin to slice up the rather tiny turnip… next up was getting potatoes peeled and cut up… I made extra so the boys can take home leftovers to get through the week…
then on to the stuffing… used two large loaves of bread because the boys requested “extra, extra”… hand ripped the bread and the mandolin worked great for the onions;-)…
table is nearly set although I couldn’t find the box of Thanksgiving decorations, lol…
08 Tuesday Oct 2019
had a lovely treat… this morning two of my boys came to the house and changed the tires on Indi…
then they came and got me at the office and we went to Boston Pizza for lunch…
and at the end of the day I came home to the grass mowed, outdoor furniture put away for winter and the pump running in the pond…
was just in the hot tub and spent the entire time listening to the beautiful sound of the water running;-)… I have missed it over the last few weeks…
30 Monday Sep 2019
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. soup, 10 years, beloved, big girl pants, family, flowers, memories, milestone, treats, widow, workplace
today marked ten years at my current workplace… a lot has happened in those ten years and these people are part of my family…
a big deal to me… and so I had lots of fun preparing for the day…
I wrote notes, distributed flowers, and made a lovely lunch of Thai Shrimp soup along with salad, fresh bread and tarts from La Belle Baguette for dessert…
not every day you can celebrate such a milestone…
it is such fun to walk around and see flowers everywhere;-)…
my beloved would have enjoyed helping me with this special event… I truly am blessed…
21 Saturday Sep 2019
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been thinking a lot of our dear friend Margaret…
she was my parents’ neighbour and our good friend since I was about fifteen…
I remember our Chinese food parties on payday Fridays… my beloved and I would go over and mom and dad would come from next door and we would have a delicious dinner…
she enjoyed the girls when they came along and loved spending time with them…
the cane I am using belonged to her…
I can remember saying to her later in her life “you have to put the cane on the ground, not just carry it”…
lovely memories…
