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 […]
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This quote comes from one of my most favorite and comforting scriptures ever. Isaiah 61 – This little painting is one of my new favorites. I’m keeping her. She’s going in my room. Isaiah is speaking about some of the things Christ will do. “he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
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.
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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
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May 1st is the day we lost Brad. Needless to say, it is my least favorite day. This year I wanted to be a little more prepared. I can always feel it coming and I struggle for weeks before. This year was a little different. Tyler had been out on her mission about 6 weeks.
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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
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s
Today marks five years since Brad’s death. That is crazy to me. Five years sounds like a long time. And it’s weird because it seems like a lifetime ago and also just yesterday all at the same time. I remember very vividly walking in my bed room to get Addie who was six months old