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replicate…

17 Saturday Mar 2018

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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, fried egg, hyacinth, memories, pink, purple, replicate, sandwich, scent, widow

thinking of my beloved a lot recently… for the past few days I’ve been thinking of his fried egg sandwiches…

this morning I made an open-faced version using some of the French bread from La Belle Baguette that I picked up yesterday…

I can’t replicate what he did… they were always especially yummy… although that might have to do with how much butter he would add to the bread, lol… and the eggs were always perfectly cooked with soft yolks…

I picked up a few hyacinths the other day… left one at work and brought one home for the bedroom… just love the scent as they open… as it bloomed, discovered that it was pink… I usually get the purple ones…

made me realize how much pink there is currently in the bedroom… I held the hyacinth up to the new curtains which have purples and pinks in them… then realized that my afghan has pink in it as well… and when I put away some laundry in the closet – which I recently hung by colour – I spotted some pink as well…

very interesting as pink has never really been one of my colours…

opportunity…

14 Wednesday Mar 2018

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artistic, big girl pants, cream, flowers, fragrance, hyacinth, moments, opportunity, Spring, text, widow

I’ve been wanting to get some flowers for the office recently, but haven’t had an opportunity to pick any up…

as I was heading to work this morning I got a text from a colleague asking me to pick up cream for the office on my way in…

so it just felt like a sign that I now had the chance to get the flowers;-)…

and so I did…

another colleague has an amazing artistic talent and she took the flowers and made them picture worthy…

I also picked up two small hyacinth plants… left one at the office and brought the other one home…

just love the fragrance when they are blooming… Spring is in the air…

magical…

08 Thursday Mar 2018

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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, flowers, magical, streaming, sunlight, widow

had a magical time with flowers today…

there were tulips at the office and I got time to take pictures for a social media post we were working on…

when I arrived home the sunlight was streaming through the living room window and making the vase of flowers look amazing… so I spent a lovely time taking pictures…

to top off the day, the house magically cleaned itself… it smelled good when I walked in and seeing the toilet paper folded was the confirmation…

well, the cleaners came although I hadn’t been expecting them, lol…

what a blessing…

six…

05 Monday Mar 2018

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two thousand one hundred and ninety-one days since my beloved left me…

you would think that six years would make it easier…

some days it does seem a little easier… many days it doesn’t…

I do things that I’d never done before and I do them well… those big girl pants and all… but I would much rather have him beside me…

I continue to try to remember the good times and focus on them rather than feel sorry for myself… although there are certainly times when I wallow…

I’ve learned to feel those moments and sit in them and not push them aside… I believe that has helped me move forward…

as I write this the tears fall… over the last few weeks I’ve have been reminded of the days when George died and the memorial that followed… it has been very stress-filled as I have been reliving the hours and days immediately following his death…

thinking back to the police arriving at the door and my friends going with me to the hospital… not being told he had died, but walking into the room where his body was… calling my girls, and others… signing a form so that they could harvest his organs… going home to a house without him…

hard days… but today I got chocolate in the mail and bought myself a bouquet of flowers to make me smile;-)…

one step at a time on the journey…

top…

01 Thursday Mar 2018

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gift, home, pictures, purple, top, widow

got a lovely gift today from a colleague who had been home for a holiday…

it is a dress, but I will have it shortened to make a very cute top… the detail around the neck is particularly nice… makes me feel a bit like a queen when I have it on;-)…

my colleague is hoping she will eventually convince me to wear a dress… can’t even remember the last dress I’ve worn… I do wear floor length dresses occasionally although at work they end up getting caught in the wheels of my chair… and I wear sarongs all the time at home…

as we were leaving the office, took a few shots of the lovely rose at her desk…

colour matches my new top…

filled…

26 Monday Feb 2018

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flowers, flowers, everywhere…

had roses delivered to the office this morning for the staff members who were away on Valentine’s Day… had to laugh because they were nicer than the ones we had… these ones came with greenery and glitter, lol…

and shortly after that our Manitoba Lung Association fundraiser tulips were delivered… the office was filled with beauty…

every day the sky is filled with light which lasts longer and is brighter, and to have flowers on top of that just makes me happy…

adorable…

23 Friday Feb 2018

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tgif… always seems strange to me how long four day weeks after a holiday are… you’d think the week would fly by, but no…

was very excited to see these adorable African violet flowers which I discovered at my desk this afternoon…

the plant was turned so I hadn’t noticed the flowers until I moved it… makes me happy…

since yesterday I’ve been thinking of the grilled cheese and onion sandwich that I was going to have for my dinner from the last of the sourdough rye bread I picked up at the bakery…

it was delicious…

trimmed…

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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started my day with this lovely shot in the living room… these flowers have been blooming since February 5th when I picked them up…

trimmed them down and tossed a few out but they still look fabulous…

then it was off to La Belle Baguette where I collected two types of bread for today’s Souper Thursday… chose a loaf of French and a Rye Sourdough… and finally three different tarts to share… yum…

this bakery is way too close to home, lol… in the summer I would walk over on Saturday or Sunday to pick up a treat…

on my way home I stopped in and got a hair cut… great to have it trimmed up… still has lots of purple in it…

flowers, tasty treats and fresh hair… pretty good day…

spirits…

16 Friday Feb 2018

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big girl pants, daylight, flowers, happy, joy, roses, spirits, widow

had a lovely time wandering around the office and taking pictures of the various roses…

I can’t explain how much joy I get from having flowers around…

seeing them wherever I turned brought a smile to my face…

between the roses and the fact that the daylight is getting longer every day my spirits have certainly been lifted…

now if only the temperature would start to rise in a steady manner…

darker…

06 Tuesday Feb 2018

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big girl pants, darker, flowers, happy, light, widow, winter

winter is often a down season for me… I really miss the light…

George always made sure I had lots of flowers throughout these darker months…

yesterday I was at the grocery store and bought flowers to brighten my space…

they will be in the living room and the bedroom at home and on my desk at work…

also noticing that the days are getting longer…

I already feel happier…

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