07 Thursday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, conversations, lift up, memories, reverberate, things, widow
recently been part of a number of conversations about seeing the little things… lifting up everyone you come in contact with… and seeing the good in each and every person and thing…
interesting how the conversations reverberate again and again…
05 Tuesday Mar 2019
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, colleagues, flowers, lunch, memories, orchid, potato pancakes, Safeway, samosas, Shrove Tuesday, widow
on this seventh anniversary of losing my beloved, I started the day by going to Safeway and buying flowers and an orchid for work… flowers for the front of the office and some for my space…
was very happy that they had orchids because the last few times I’ve been there haven’t been any…
my beloved always bought me flowers and orchids, particularly in the winter which has often been a difficult time for me…
at noon, I ran out and picked up samosas to share for our lunch… this was something he would do every now and then… seemed like a lovely way to remember him and what made him so special…
it was a great meal, with salad, veggies, hummus, cheese and grapes added by my colleagues…
as it is Shrove Tuesday, pancakes were on the menu for supper and I made potato pancakes, a nod to the world’s best hash brown patties that he would make…
a good day with many lovely memories…
04 Monday Mar 2019
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555, 7 years, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, gone, hoarfrost, memories, moments, nature, Park, pictures, remember, widow
tomorrow marks 7 years since my beloved left this earth…
Google tells me that it is 2,555 days since that day…
I’ve been remembering some of the fun things we did during those last weeks…
you would think after seven years it would get easier…
but it doesn’t …
this is the last picture I took with him… it was Sunday, March 4, 2012… we had taken a drive around the Park so I could get some photos of the beautiful hoarfrost… this tree is on the drive to the Park… he had to stop in the middle of the road so that I could get the shot I wanted;-)…
22 Friday Feb 2019
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aquasize, backyard, beloved, big girl pants, fish and chips, garbage, memories, recycling, shovelled, snow, supper, widow
felt like I was wearing those big girl pants all day long…
this morning I went out into the backyard and shovelled the windrow outside the gate so that I could get the garbage and recycling bins into the back lane…
it has been weeks since I’ve taken it out…
put two bags beside it… not sure if they will take those or not…
I decided on pickerel for my supper… instead of the deep fried French fries that my beloved would make, and which were amazing, I baked them in the oven… a recipe from my grandmother… fish and chips was one of the regular suppers that he would make, particularly on swimming nights… makes me think that I need to get back to aquasize…
tasty…
11 Monday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cook, dad, family, favourite, grandson, meat sauce, memories, remembering, shopping, sprouts, widow
whenever I grocery shop with my grandson and ask if he wants Brussels sprouts for dinner he always says yes…
they are clearly his favourite vegetable, although he also has a thing for raw carrots, lol…
he cooks them much better than I, so I always get them ready, set out the butter and garlic, and have him do the cooking… sometimes we add a bit of red wine, if there is any around…
this time they went with leftover macaroni that I added to some meat sauce… tasty…
while I was making the sauce I was remembering my dad… his meat sauce was delicious, partly because he added something from every bottle in the pantry, lol…
he’s been gone for over thirty years… always surprises me what might bring up a memory…
27 Sunday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, coleslaw, dinner, family, food, lesson, memories, mother-in-law, recipe, widow
this afternoon I made coleslaw… I used a recipe from a lovely church lady who is long gone… we used to make this recipe when feeding large crowds of people…
since then I have written down the measurements for half and a quarter of the recipe… sometimes I would mess up, using an amount from the full recipe for one ingredient and then maybe half for the next, lol… learned my lesson…
this always reminds me of my mother-in-law... she would make coleslaw and just know the correct combination of dressing ingredients needed to go in for the amount she was making… and it always tasted perfect;-)…
I do sometimes wing it now… and it usually works out, but today I went back to the recipe and put the extra aside for another time…
memories…
filled a large bowl as my grandson was coming for dinner… only to learn he likes the creamy kind, lol…
going to have some every day this week…
23 Wednesday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, cookies, dear friend, homemade, memories, shortbread, Walker’s, widow
tonight I had two Walker’s shortbread cookies for a treat with a cup of tea…
I do love shortbread and these are my favourite go-to when I don’t have any homemade ones available…
they remind me of a dear friend who loves them too…
I always make sure to have some in the house whenever I know she’s coming by…
when I eat one I think about all the fun times we have had together…
memories are such amazing things, aren’t they…
17 Thursday Jan 2019
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afraid, beloved, big girl pants, brave, claustrophobic, helmet, memories, Mexico, moments, sandpaper, stingray, underwater, vacation, velvet, widow
in 2013 the whole family travelled to Mexico in celebration of my beloved…
we had a great time and did many fun things…
this picture came up in my feed today…
we walked along the bottom of the sea to see stingrays… before we went down we told the staff that I am claustrophobic and might not be able to participate for the whole time…
I was afraid, but went ahead… they help you put on the helmet (that weighs about 60 pounds), and climb down a ladder until you reach the sea floor… then walk alongside a bit of a rail… the water was moving a lot and we had to hang onto the handrail… once we reached a certain spot they had us stop and look beyond the handrail… the staff were swimming around with treats and bringing some of the stingrays over for us to see and touch…
the top of them felt like sandpaper while the bottom was as soft as velvet…
I thought the divers came by to see me once or twice to be sure I was okay, but after we got out of the water the girls told me they were beside me every minute or so, lol…
after we were done I felt very brave and proud that I had actually done it…
those big girl pants…
14 Monday Jan 2019
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bassinet, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, camper, camping, car, Chevelle, daughter, family, memories, moments, slides, travel, widow
the other day I came across some slides from the 70s…
this first one is from a trip we took with my beloved’s parents to Vancouver in 1978… it was just after our first daughter was born… she travelled in a travel bassinet for the whole trip… times have certainly changed, lol…
at least every second day something bad happened to the car… from blown tires, the muffler falling off at least three times, to windows freezing in the open position, to the engine catching fire… and other things in between…
clearly, a trip to remember…
the second photo is of a camping trip… shows our Chevelle and camper… I purchased that car with my dad in 1968 and we had it for many years… it was a wonderful car… and I have many amazing memories of our times with it…
the camper we have now is very similar to that one… I hope we make as many memories with it;-)…
05 Saturday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, nature, purple, River Trail, shopping, skates, The Forks, widow
went to Canadian Tire because they had a sale on… I’d decided after my Christmas Eve skate that I’d like to get my own so we could all skate together…
got the cutest ones… they have a C on them and mauve accents;-)… I mean, clearly designed specifically for me…
we went to The Forks, along with what felt like millions of other people, and had fun skating on the River Trail…
I still worry about falling but they had the neatest chairs on skis… it was wonderful to have one to steady me and I was able to relax and get more comfortable… soon I was gliding along… one day I might be able to do that without hanging on to something or someone, lol…
my daughter had a problem with one of her feet so I pushed her for a while… gave the youngest a short ride and then he pushed me for a bit… my son-in-law ended up giving me a very fast ride back to the start;-)…
didn’t skate for long, but it was great fun to be outside with the kids…
maybe next week we will go to the Duck Pond…
