In an attempt to feel sort of normal and get life closer to the track again, I sat down at our hand-me-down dining room table last Monday morning with a cup of coffee and a good pen to write and mail out 4 more letters for the #31letters31weeks “campaign.” I almost hate calling this a…
Life
State of the Weight Wednesday: The Grief Edition
Welcome back to State of the Weight Wednesday. Being healthy is about more than just the number on the scale. It’s about living life while getting healthy. SOTWW is about making small changes you can live with. There’s really a lot of food happening right now and almost none of it is very healthy. Call…
On Loss and Grief
Loss and grief are colossal mind games. That’s the nicest way to put that and certainly not the phrase in my head right now when trying to describe just where my head has been for the past week or two. I consider myself a pretty intellectual, rational person, so I’ve been kind of caught off…
In Memoriam
My daddy died on Tuesday night. Peacefully. Surrounded by his children. I held his hand as he passed. I was not a Daddy’s girl. Far from it. But I loved my dad. And I know that he loved me. He didn’t have to be my dad. He met and married the woman who came with…
The First of Many
Last night I buzzed around the house labeling and packing and organizing and picking out clothes. I fretted. I worried. I hoped. I thought about the past 4 years and looked ahead to the next 14. I remembered the car ride home from the hospital and how that was just yesterday, wasn’t it? I looked to…