As you may know from my last blog I have lived in this house for almost 13 years now and much of it sits exactly as it has since Brian died 5 years ago but every once in a while I will come upon a hand written note by him tucked into a book or…
We have lived in the same house since Hayden was just under a year old, about 13 years now. In Brian’s letter he had hoped that financially I would be able to stay in the house. I have thus far but it’s a catch 22. The house has seen so much…
I joke that this blog should really be called “Fearful Widow” but I couldn’t seriously call it that and instead named it Fearless Widow in hopes that it would be a self fulfilling prophecy. You know how your thoughts become your reality type thinking. I’m thankfully not nearly as fearful as I used…
Those first days and weeks were such a blur. I felt like I was in a fog. Family and friends swooped in and I went on auto pilot. Planning his memorial service and dealing with insurance, legal paperwork, social security and all those things that I never thought I would…
Why is something that I will never know until I meet him on the other side. I just have to learn to live with the questions. He did leave me a long five or six page letter and I’m very grateful that I got that as I have met other widows who didn’t get…
Five years ago January 26th was a Saturday and at about this time I was getting the kids into the car to drive to the airport and look for his car. A black Ford Explorer in a sea of other Ford Explorer’s. He had gone out of town for a one night…
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