It all started as posting updates for friends and family during my husband’s battle with leukemia. While that was a true “smelting” time for our family, the real journey has been all that has come since. I invite you to follow along as I document navigating grief, widowhood, maintaining faith, and finding joy in living despite the challenges.
- It Doesn’t Take MuchDo you ever have seemingly silly things that give you little jolts of happiness every time you see or think of them? I have always loved looking for and identifying those. I have a “Happy Book” full of them. A recent one for me is this…
- Bring on 2025!No surprise, but this past week I’ve been contemplating what I wanted my focus word to be for 2025, as well as critiquing how I think I did with my word from 2024. To be honest, not great for 2024. Or rather, I give myself mixed…
- The End of an EraWell, it had to happen sometime. I finally had to buy toothpaste. For those who may not have been following this blog for the past several years, an early grief trigger I had revolved around needing to buy toothpaste. (Sounds so silly to say that now,…