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The night before last I came home and there was a message on the machine.  It was Tony’s primary doctor, and it surprised me to hear his voice – I hadn’t spoken to him since the day we brought Tony home for hospice.  My Mom is trying to get a refund for her Hong Kong trip that she had to cancel when it was clear...

I remember going through the motions with my parents in law and my Mom while planning Tony’s memorial at the funeral home.  I heard the funeral director say to me “we contact social security directly, it’s a Federal law, but they will be in touch with you to discuss the $255 contribution to your husband’s funeral expenses.  Huh.  Maybe a week after Tony’s memorial I...

Back in the middle of December, I received an email from a social media consultant for Spartan Race, asking if I wanted to talk about Spartan races on the blog and give out a free admission to any U.S. event.  I just couldn’t deal with any emails right after Tony died, and I seriously forgot all about it.  He contacted me again last week and...

Last week I talked about a FitBit challenge my friend Dave put together called “Workweek Hustle.”  Basically to try to get more steps in during your work week.  It ran Monday – Friday.  FitBit suggests you get in 10,000 steps in a day, which works out to an average of about 5 miles per day.  Well, with a desk job, some days I can look...

This is going to be a fly by post because I have to be at work at 7:00 a.m. this morning – oh well, at least I’ll be busy!  (p.s. – thanks for all the comments on my blog post yesterday – I know I will have days where I just don’t want to get out of bed, but I appreciate all the virtual hugs! ...

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...