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life moments…

12 Saturday Apr 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, fish and chips, George, life moments, married, memorial service, snow, wedding

today was filled… started around noon when huge snowflakes descended from the sky… for a long time…

look what's back...

look what’s back…

about that time one of our young friends got married… my daughter sent me a video of their vows… lovely to watch… I am hoping their love endures like that of my beloved and I…

a friend picked me up and we headed off to a memorial service for another friend’s mother… second one I’ve been to since George’s… wasn’t really sure how I would make out, but it was fine… it was in a church – a denomination that I have been connected to over the years, so the process was familiar… it was beautifully done and my friend managed very well…

but it did remind me of the memorial service we went to a week before George died… on our way home he commented about how people might remember him… that kept coming to my mind during today’s service… friends at today’s event were mindful and checked to see how I was doing… nice to be cared for…

interesting to have a beginning and an ending all in the same day… just yesterday someone commented on their parents’ 45 years of marriage… feel like I need to let the tears flow, but that hasn’t happened so far…

last night I found the missing pickerel (which I had been searching for) in the freezer and thawed it to have tonight… I made fish and chips… it was something that George made on a regular basis, often on Tuesday night when I got home from aquasize…

fish and chips...

fish and chips…

was rather proud of myself as I have only made chips a few times since then…

those big girl pants slip on easily sometimes and other times are very difficult to get into…

18 months…

05 Thursday Sep 2013

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18 months, beloved left me, big girl pants, George-size hole, hot tub, life is good, married, satellites, widow

I was married for 41 years and 7 months (15,193 days)…

anniversary in Courtenay...

41st anniversary in Courtenay…

I have been a widow, for 18 months (548 days)…

sometimes it feels like they are equally long…

the last few weeks have been difficult and it wasn’t until midway through last week that I realized it was coming up to a year and a half since my beloved left me behind…

last night I made a dish that I first made just after we were married… it had fish, rice, mushroom soup and whatever vegetable was around and I made it fairly often as my repertoire of recipes wasn’t very big…

he ate that meal on and off for 30 years before finally telling me it wasn’t his favourite… made me laugh as I was eating it last night…

as I sat in the hot tub later and looked up at the stars I saw a satellite along with 4 planes and remembered how he would always spot them before me and then have to point them out carefully so that I would see them…

my life is good, and I am getting used to the big girl pants, but some days I just really miss him…

I remember someone years ago talking about a Godde-sized hole inside them… I have a George-size hole… I imagine it will grow smaller, but don’t expect that it will ever be completely gone…

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