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23 Monday Dec 2019

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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, friends, gifts, happy, integral, love, moments, widow

up way too early to get ready for my BS buddies who were coming over for brunch and sharing of Christmas gifts…

everyone brought something for the meal… there were avocados, breads, cheeses, jam and eggs… delicious…

lots of great conversation and some wonderful gifts were shared…

home baking, jam, eco wrap, chocolate, handmade aprons and donations… love throughout…

these women have been an integral part of my life for over 30 years… through all the good and bad times…

what a wonderful time we have together;-)…

unfold…

02 Saturday Mar 2019

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big girl pants, happy, Instagram, love, moments, remember, unfold, widow, work

recently read something on Instagram that was a reminder for me…

someone I follow had a conversation with another person (whose name wasn’t provided) about motivation to get up in the morning, and their comment was:

…when you figure out what that something is that you love, and get to do it, you’re excited for what unfolds each day…

it struck a cord… I do love what I do… my purpose at work is to help everyone on the team be able to accomplish whatever they are working on in the simplest and easiest manner… maybe I’ve forgotten that…

and as it happened, I spent an hour this morning, once awake, considering an issue with our database and coming up with a simple workaround that will produce the outcome needed but cut back on the process to achieve that outcome… looking forward to getting to the office on Monday and trying it out;-)…

it is good to remember how lucky I am…

boat…

04 Saturday Aug 2018

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big girl pants, boat, camping, campsite, drive, Falcon, family, fish, fishing, love, lunch, patience, rain, sky, widow

what a lovely day…

started with an early wake up, a drive across town, a packed up truck with a boat behind it… I love the boat…

then we drove to Falcon Lake, put the boat into the water and went fishing… my son-in-law caught a fish right away… then we waited patiently for the fish and they never came… quite a while later the sky clouded over and we headed in to the dock…

put the boat back on the trailer and just got the cover on it when it started to spit… had to run to the store for a lock and it poured all the way there and back… then it stopped for about two minutes… just long enough to get the lock on…

afterwards we went out for lunch, drove around to check out our campsite for next week, and headed home…

the closer we got to the city the clearer the sky became;-)… now it is pouring here, lol…

pieces…

24 Saturday Feb 2018

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big girl pants, dad, family, love, picture, pieces, remembering, widow

recently I’ve been thinking of my dad…

many in my circles are struggling with parental illness and loss…

which has brought me to the place of thinking of the end of my dad’s time on earth…

he was a very special person and I loved him to pieces…

he was in Deer Lodge Hospital for quite a while as Mom couldn’t care for him properly at home any longer…

I visited him every day… the hospital is close to home so it just took minutes to get there… it was a busy time in our lives… the girls were in elementary school and I spent a great deal of time volunteering as well as looking after them…

when I think back I can remember very little of what happened… I was with dad when he died… I remember that… I don’t remember much else of the next few days… I think I went to pieces inside, although that wasn’t visible on the outside…

I do remember that the afternoon of his memorial the kids were in the car on their own, which they weren’t supposed to do, and it rolled down the driveway and across the street hitting our neighbour’s classic car… thank goodness no one was hurt because it was a beautiful spring day and there were tons of kids playing out there…

interesting because that’s all I can remember…

this is the last picture that we took of him…

without his teeth in, lol…

chuckle…

17 Friday Feb 2017

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beautiful, big girl pants, chuckle, colour, Friday, giggle, love, sign, sky, sunrise, widow

the sky was absolutely stunning this morning on my drive to work… from the moment I turned east until I turned into the parking lot it kept changing…

from pink and gold to blue and mauve the entire time… didn’t have a good spot anywhere along the way to take a picture and I don’t think I could have taken one that would show the actual beauty…

it was a lovely start to Friday…

I’ve been giggling since I got home and discovered that the reason the love sign in the window hasn’t looked right is the fact that the o was backwards…

was a great chuckle for me and a good start to the long weekend…

sometimes…

16 Thursday Feb 2017

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beauty, big girl pants, live, love, nature, reminder, rough, sadness, sometimes, struggle, widow

been a rough few days… many reasons… waiting on test results… various changes around me… missing my beloved… mental struggles…

tonight I got a beautiful card in the mail…

great timing… needed a bit of a confidence boost…

and then I walked by the window and saw this…

there is always beauty out there… sometimes I need a brief reminder…

it is so easy to get caught in a downward spiral of sadness…

holidays…

13 Monday Feb 2017

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big girl pants, decorate, holidays, love, muffins, purple-y, Valentine's Day, widow

I love holidays… 

we celebrated Valentine’s Day as a family last night with our steak and lobster dinner…

the house is decorated… well, the living room and dining room, but that makes me happy…

now I am planning what I will wear to work tomorrow… found something velvety and sparkly and purple-y…

think I will take in the tasty heart-shaped muffins…

did I mention that I love holidays…

birthday…

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

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65, big girl pants, birthday, celebrate, food, fun, love, New York, widow

yesterday I turned 65… 

was very special to be in New York with my girls…

went for a walk after midnight… because we were in NYC and you can… wandered by the 9/11 memorial and found the Charging Bull… went to bed around two… 

we headed down to the cold-pressed juice bar in the hotel once we woke up and before starting out on our last day in the Big Apple… was able to have an all vegetable juice which was a great way to start the day… I’d been eyeing the bar since we’d arrived… later came across a creperie and had a portobello, Gruyere, thyme and truffle oil one for the second part of my breakfast… yum… at lunch had freshly made motzarella, prosciutto, radishes, a fried asparagus with cheese pizza and half of a pear Bellini… snacked on a piece of coconut chocolate cake… and our final meal of the day was steak with mashed potatoes, and a tasty salad topped off with pecan pie…  

 

was pleased with the options and able to eat small portions of each so felt treated and good at the same time, lol…here is a collection of our fun day…

  
our feet, hand and bags as we were cramming our stuff into as little space as possible, ready to go through customs with all of our goodies… including treasures from Carlo’s Bakery… a wall covered in purple purses in Brookfield Place… dinner at Prime in La Guardia… cheers at Eataly… and more cheer with our dinner…

received this great phone case from the 100,000 step girls… we’d seen this as we were riding the Big Bus Hop-on Hop-off… they searched everywhere to find one with the subway map on it but when they weren’t successful they found this one…

  
had texts and phone calls from my boys… also received this handmade card…

  
all in all a pretty wonderful way to celebrate;-)…

surprise…

06 Friday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, love, orchid, SkipTheDishes, snow, surprise, The Captain's Table

this morning had to take this picture as I stepped out the door…

  
that was snow on the ground, sigh…

I’ve been waiting all week for tonight’s fish and chips from The Captain’s Table… 

stopped at Polo Park to pick up a few items and as I left ordered supper from SkiptheDishes on my phone… got home, prepared some veggies, and the food arrived…

 
less than 30 minutes… great surprise… and it tasted great too…

much better day today… still a bit emotional first thing, but by the end of the day was feeling more settled… really does surprise me how strong emotions can be, even after all these years…

these orchids remind me of my love and how he took care of me…

  
he would surprise me with orchids all the time…

love…

09 Tuesday Dec 2014

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aquasize, beloved, big girl pants, love, poor me, sundogs

sat eating my breakfast looking at Love which my beloved made with his scroll saw… he was very talented…

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been going through a bit of poor me… missing George and feeling a bit down with all the health stuff…

on our way home tonight we saw some spectacular sun dogs…

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was hard to get great shots as the traffic was whizzing past…

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so tired I wasn’t sure I would make it through aquasize class, but I did… then I made some soup with squash and chicken and onions… very nice…

now to bed…

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