Living is a whole new adventure when you suddenly find yourself alone, widowed and the mother of four young boys a lot like their Dad.

Christmas Day
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Christmas Day

If any of you really knew Grant, you’d know he’d have to be dead for us to get a dog… So this Christmas, we got a dog.  Grant sent her to us.  He found her and brought us together, another story.  This story is about Christmas. 

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Team Work
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Team Work

Team work.  It makes the Dream Work! Oh how I see this truth more and more.  As alone as I am, I can’t do it alone.  I can’t, so I don’t.  So then what do these Oreo cookie shells have to do with team work?  Everything, I’ll explain.

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I Finally Took Off My Wedding Ring
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I Finally Took Off My Wedding Ring

Both of our wedding rings sit in a box under my bathroom counter by the lotion, the sunscreen and the mouthwash.  When my husband died, I looked at my left hand with the ring on it. I’ll never take this off, I thought.  I’m still married.  After 2 months of doing his jobs and mine and grieving it all; I looked at my left hand and the ring on it and thought, he’s not here, this is a lie.

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