Tag: mothers

• What is this feeling?

  I was sitting here, late this Saturday evening, rethinking the day I’ve had. My siblings and I all gathered at Mom’s – to collect some stuff, talk about a few things, and eventually meet with my Dad and step-Mom to celebrate my step-Mom’s 70th birthday. All went well. It was a good day. Yesterday, I…

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  January 10, 2026

  Blog, Memories

  family, grief, life, love, Memories, mom, mother-daughter, mothers, Writing

• Three things I am grateful for this year

  Gratitude should surround us but sometimes, it gets lost. It isn’t always easy to find, or it is hard to see that gratitude doesn’t have to be big or flashy. Something as simple as being thankful or appreciative for the sunrise or a hot meal is a way to see gratitude in our everyday. Earlier…

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  December 26, 2025

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• One month…

  I am not usually one to commiserate things like loss. When something is done, it is done and I try to move forward. While I celebrate birthdays and wedding anniversaries, once you’ve past childhood, only major milestones are really celebrated, and at that, only with the smallest of fanfare. We had a small party for…

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  December 23, 2025

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  death, family, grief, life, loss, love, Memories, mental health, mother-daughter, mothers, Writing

• The day my mother died…

  No, this isn’t the song about The Day the Music Died, although she liked that song & she liked Buddy Holly. She did sport a beehive and had black rimmed cat glasses at one point in time (I’ll get the pictures and share them at a later date), she was in her late seventies, she…

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  November 27, 2025

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• Memory #23: Choices

  When I had my son, I had ideas of how things would be. I was so certain. Well, friends, Meatloaf had it wrong. ‘Two outta three’ may not have been bad, and while I did do ‘Three outta three’, the only thing that went “according to plan” was number three. I cloth diapered the crap…

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  June 21, 2024

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