Yes, I think we will have times like this for a long time to come. We are grieving for them in the things that they will not get to see or do, not only in our loss of them.
I am glad that you stuck it out and held your head high....even if you were not feeling it.
Wonder if the snow has anything to do with the mood that you were in as I have been feeling kind of down and it has been snowing here also???
Wishing you some peace in the days ahead......hugs

How sad it is to be alone in a place that you know your husband would like to have been. But I am proud of you for being able to be there alone and keep your chin up. When we do things like that, the tears will naturally flow. It's ok to let them. Anyone who sees us cry be damned. We do not have to make excuses for our grief. You give me hope that someday I will be able to do that too. Hugs, Gwen

Nicker,

i like what you said at the end.

"I stuck my chin out and kept eating". That was inspirational!!

You know, when I go to meet everyone in Vegas it will be my first time since being there with Greg which was my first time ever. I KNOW I will have many mixed emotions and KNOW at some point or at many of them I will cry, at the thought that this was 'supposed" to be our honeymoon trip that never happened. So I understand everything yu were feeling. I am feeling all of that too.

Being with the wonderful f riends her will help and you did it by YOURSELF. You are one very tough lady and one I admire.

so I, when the going gets really tough, whether it be a trip, or anything I have to do or think over what has already been done?

I'll think of you, and 'stick my chin out and eat" and BE PROUD!

I hope you are. I KNOW Roger is!

HUGS to you and thanks for posting!

Diane

I am always amazed when people around us can't offer a kind word---why couldn't one person have said, hi---been thinking of you---just the simplest thing----
My own mother told my friend---she thought it was "strange" that I talked about Stan so much---That really pissed me off. My mom is a widow, we talk about Dad and it's been 14 years---and SHE doesn't get it. Makes you shake your head and say----really???
There's support here, big hugs, Sal

I'm so proud of you. Only we know what strength that took. Tears have come to all of us when we would have preferred they wait. Phooey on all the neighbors who didn't reach out to you. Reading posts like this one about others approaching those hard moments gives great inspiration to all of us that we will survive. You go girl!
Hugs!
Vicki

Dear Nicker07, that must have been so hard, but I greatly admire your courage. Roger probably knows you were there and that you were thinking of him, which would have made him happy. The owner (if he saw you) would have thought of Roger, too, since they were good friends. And that's what you want, isn't it, for people to hold onto their memories of him? Hugs and peace!