Category: feelings
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Grieving
Two months ago, my mother-in-law died. Nineteen months before that, my father-in-law died. His death, while hard, was not entirely unexpected; hers was. It was too fast and too soon. I was blessed to help care for her in her final days. The first of those days…the ones where hospice was being brought in but…
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Hey There, New Year
Christmas 2021 has come and gone and I will most likely always refer back to it as the season with the very big feelings, and for now we’ll just leave it at that. But with the big feelings there were many beautiful moments…and that guy that I like so much and I embraced each and…
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A Life Well Lived
On Sunday, my father-in-law went to be with Jesus. Dad was one of the old school kind of men. He was a Marine and an engineer and quite the card player. For over 30 years, he and I were cribbage partners and quite frankly, there was no better team than us. (I’m kicking myself that…
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Tis The Season
The halls are decked and so is every other room in our little house on our little street. Lights, lights and more lights seems to be the theme and thankfully our neighbors are just as on board as I am about making our little houses shine bright for all to see. And yet…I want more.…
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An Autumnal Celebration
When we were in college, we lived in married student housing on campus of CU Boulder. (Go Buffs!) It would be so easy to focus on the hard parts of that time of our lives – having a baby (and then another) without health insurance, living off student loans, hot water radiators in our apartment…
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On and On and On We Go
Shelter in place, week 10. Ten. TEN TEN TEN. It’s a lot like the movie Groundhog Day around here and while I’m thankful to live in a state that is taking this all very seriously…I. Am. Over. It. Plan meals. Cook meals. Eat meals. Clean up after meals. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. It’s all just…
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What Will I Learn?
As we begin WEEK SEVEN (yep, yelling that fact) of sheltering in place, I’m now at the point of wondering if and when things will ever seem normal again. But then again, what is normal anyway? I’m missing a random assortment of ‘my’ normal things – a quick run into the grocery store for the…
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Sheltered
We are beginning our fifth week of being quarantined and while I had grand plans for how I was going to spend my time each day…get up, have coffee, shower, do the laundry, take a long walk while listening to an audio book, write for a few hours, clean the whole house (and this was…
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2019 – The Year I Cried
It really was. Ok, so maybe I didn’t cry the WHOLE year all the way through, but it sure felt like a good chunk of 2019 was me either crying, or trying not to cry, or thinking about crying. Life, ya’ll. I could spell it all out, but it’s basically a combination of all the…
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A New Season
My favorite season has always been the next one that is beginning. In SoCal that might not seem like a major shift, but I still feel those changes…as subtle as they might be. Summer this year in our little house on our little street is probably best described as joy filled with a massive heap…
Little House, Big Table 