When Brad would ask me what I wanted for pretty much any holiday; I would reply with, “a card” But not just any old card. Well, I guess any old card would do, but my request was for him to fill it with his own words. Most holidays he honored this request. He would always …
Love Always Wins {my widow anthem} Something in her eyes told you she had known unimaginable loss… but those eyes also told you she has known unimaginable love. Overwhelmingly beautiful, empowering love. and love is bigger than loss. LOVE Always WINS. always I wrote these words sometime in the first year after Brad died. …
THANK YOU!!! Thank you for spreading the word about Operation Serve to Heal. Thank you for joining in. Thank you for your kind words on social media and for your love and support. I wanted to give people the option of joining us on this day for a few reasons. First, I wanted my little …
Six years. Instead of focusing on the sad…. or the loss. Focus on the LOVE. Because no time, no distance, nothing exists in the world that can change OUR love. It’s mine and Brad’s. And it’s still growing and we are both actively still giving and receiving that love. It is part of my physical …
New Year. I’ve been looking back over 2013 and realizing a few things. 2013 was a big year for our little family. We had lots of changes. {most of which I was dreading} I remember at this time last year being overwhelmed even thinking about everything that would happen this year. Ty would graduate and …
On It’s Own Today marks 5 1/2 years since Brad’s death. It’s interesting how the passage of time changes things. {and how it doesn’t} I remember having a physical “flinch” on every 1st of every month. Another month without Brad. I was always counting. Hours, days, months. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that I’m counting …
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage —pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. Stephen R. Covey About 4 years ago I went to a Time Out for women. I remember listening to a …
We sang while making dinner the other day. And I missed you. But it wasn’t the aching, lump in my throat missing you that I usually feel when a wave of missing you comes on…. It was just missing you, because I know you would have been singing right along with us and having a …
After Brad died I used to have the most horrible, crushingly sad dream. In the dream I had just lost Brad again. Throughout the whole dream I was running all over looking for him and I could never find him. People I would pass would say, “he just went that way.” “he just …
So it’s safe to say that Valentines day is no longer one of my favorite holidays. to be honest, it pretty much blows now. And each year it is a hard day and it seems like I miss Brad more on that day than others….(didn’t think that was possible, but I guess it is.) so …