Category: Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief
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Until the Cows Come Home
We spent this weekend with friends up in the mountains. It’s a good way to spend the weekend. The last time we spent the weekend together was last winter with Samantha in tow. Saturday evening the ‘older’ girls sat in the hot tub drinking wine and watching the sun set over the mountains. And Samantha…
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Kindness….when no one is watching
This week I am a guest blogger for my friend Jenny. She is starting Ben’s Bells in Denver. Check them out! Because kindness counts, especially when you don’t know how much it counts. We have been the recipients of many, many acts of kindness. As soon as we became a family with a medically fragile…
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Calling
I am living two lives. One life gets on a plane, attends conference calls and develops marketing plans. The other life is focused on our foundation, the world we once lived with Samantha and carrying on the important work she left me to do. It’s a lot of balls in the air but I am…
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What would I Tell her?
I had my next blog post all written out. But I hit a detour. By this….. My friend Heather posted these pictures along with the caption “favorite picture of my friend…bachlorette party.” First of all….rule of the bachlorette party….new moms are the worst! I remember going out on this night, telling my husband, “Oh everyone…
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I found my undies
Hubby was gone for over two weeks. The house was oddly quiet without him. It felt cold and I felt lonely….so I decided not to be at home at all. For two weeks. I would come home at night to sleep in my own bed but would be out of the house at 7:30 and…
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