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.

Isn’t It Beautiful?!
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Isn’t It Beautiful?!

Isn’t it beautiful?! The Christmas tree and presents waiting for the kids in the morning. It’s the whole Christmas vibe. I love it. I feel it this year. This is the first year since my husband died 4 years ago that I have wrapped presents and felt a little bit of excitement about the holiday. It feels good.

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I Really Loved You
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I Really Loved You

I really loved you Grant. I did. It’s not that I don’t have love for you. I do. I just realized that the love I once had for you is changed, but it was real when it was what it once was. It was deep, as deep as one can love another.

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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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The 2nd Year Is Harder
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The 2nd Year Is Harder

Grant,

In 2 days it will be your birthday. You’d be 40, but you’re dead, so you won’t be. You stopped aging at 38. You managed to immortalize yourself in your youthfulness, before your age really started to show, before you were affected by all the life lessons and joys of growing older. Congratulations.

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