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Tom’s birthday and other stuff
This week was Tom’s birthday. I remember the first birthday we celebrated without him – he’d been gone just barely two weeks. I was still in a state of shock. We had dinner with family and brought along a lemon … Continue reading
A Little Update
I haven’t written in awhile. It’s not that things haven’t been going on, because they have. My oldest child is getting married in a few short weeks. Everyone keeps asking how the reception plans are going and if they can … Continue reading
A Year Ago
I’m not generally big on commemorating events. We celebrate major holidays and birthdays and our wedding day, but everything else … I guess I just haven’t ever been really big on that. I haven’t counted the days since Tom died. … Continue reading
missing what is gone
Maybe it is just that I lived for so many years with Tom, but I’m finding being on my own (so to speak) to be unfamiliar and even scary territory. I had a bout of pretty bad vertigo awhile back … Continue reading
Rainin’ You*
It’s been a weepy kind of day (which I guess is sort of appropriate considering the gray, drizzly weather we have been having). Last night I caught my son in the act of being particularly ugly to his sister during … Continue reading
Trust
I remember looking up at Tom perched on the boulder that I needed to scale to get out of the slot canyon we had clambered down. He was reaching his hand down to haul me up and I just couldn’t … Continue reading
The Bathroom Makeover
So, I’m terrible at taking before pictures… But I have some after pictures of the master bathroom makeover. A little background. Our master bath is a little “L” off the master bedroom. Originally there was a half wall between the … Continue reading
Phones and other things
I tried to give Tom’s phone to Spencer last week. They have the same phone and Spencer’s has been acting up. But when it came right down to it, I didn’t want to lose that connection to life as it … Continue reading
Road Trip Redux
Back in 2011 I waxed lyrical on the joys of road trips. I recently reread my blog post and I still think I captured pretty well the joys I have found over the years “on the road”. Yet this past … Continue reading
The first year after Spencer was born was so disorienting. I’d finally figure out how to be the mother of a newborn, but now he was four months old and nothing worked. And then he was eight months and then … Continue reading
