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Yesterday was a rough day for me, but if you looked at me you wouldn’t know it.  Yesterday marked 8 weeks since Tony passed away.  I had some down time at work so I was deleting old emails and then I got to an email that Tony sent me for a blog post he wanted to do for my birthday.   The last lines of the...

I didn’t do a regular meal plan this week since I cooked all day on Saturday, I had no desire to even think about food on Sunday.  I ended up making a breakfast sammie on a dinner roll – egg beaters, ham, cheese and spinach.  I picked up that fruit, I don’t know what the name of it was, but it is the size of...

Friday night, just after we sat down to dinner, Hannah’s fiancés phone rings and it’s his brother.  All I hear Jacob saying is “What?!”  I couple minutes he hung up and said “My niece died.”  Jacob has two nieces one is two and the other is 4 months old – the 4 month old died in her crib of unknown causes.  They were both at...

I stumbled upon “Can You Stay For Dinner” back in February of 2010.  This was her first comment on my blog: Can You Stay for Dinner canyoustayfordinner.comx canyoustayfordinner@gmail.com 76.28.109.192 Submitted on 2010/02/13 at 2:49 pm My god I love your creativity with food! I’ve got to try that pizza dough, it looks perfect! Thanks for visiting my blog. Unapprove | Reply | Quick Edit |...

When we got to my cousins Memorial, since we were late, it basically started right away.  I sat down and suddenly saw Pam’s big picture on the alter and that’s all it took for me to start to cry.  So many people were there who were touched by Pam’s life.  It wasn’t unusual for her students to call her on a Saturday night if they...

Last Friday night my Aunt told me that she was taking us to a place for dinner that I would really love.  It was called Southern Season.  I had never heard of it before, but you know I am always up for eating out. A whole wall of hot sauces!  Turns out Southern Season is a foodies dream.  Cooking school, housewares, wine, cheese, bakery –...

What a whirlwind weekend!  While the reason I was going was bittersweet, it was so nice to see family, some of whom I haven’t seen in years.  Normally I am really nervous to fly.  All the sounds, etc.  But I told myself I had a better chance of getting hit by a car than I did dying in a plane crash, and that seemed to...

I will be taking a blog break until Tuesday.  My dear cousin Pam lost her battle with cancer on January 2.  A mere 30 days after Tony died.  She was an amazing woman, and way to young to leave this earth at the young age of 56. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 and enjoyed eight years of remission before in 2008,...

Since Tony passed away we’ve only used the living room in the front of the house a few times.  I don’t know what it is, but we usually hang out in the back of the house – in the kitchen and in the back family room.  It’s cozier I guess?  We did use the living room on NYE when we watched a movie when we...

You’d think I’d get used to Chicago winters, but I never do.  The cold air smacks me in the face when I open my back door and I think what Tony would be saying right about now “why the fuck do we live here?!” That’s how cold it was when I left the house yesterday morning.  By 12:30 when I left for the gym it...