MarieAnn

May is here and with it a year has passed.  I don't even know how to describe this year it has been filled with so much emotion, passion, fear, sadness, hope and just plain trying to live. One day...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived....

Spring is finally here and it is good to see the kids out riding their bikes again and playing in the sand box. Spring comes and life starts to bloom again and it reminds me so poignantly that life...

Grief is a strange road to walk and I am not sure that there is ever an end date to it.  In the beginning it is all consuming and takes every fiber of your body, mind and soul and consumes it. ...

I have struggled with the reality of my late husband's legacy and not wanting his death from addiction to have no meaning.  At first I was resentful of the life insurance money that came from his...

Today I feel as though I haven't survived any of what has happened in the last two years.  I know from a day to day life standpoint I have.  I do what needs to be done and I function but I am not...

It has been a few months since I have updated my journal and once again life is shifting. We are getting closer to the anniversary date and my youngest (4) and my oldest (12) seem to be managing...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived....

Spring is finally here and it is good to see the kids out riding their bikes again and playing in the sand box. Spring comes and life starts to bloom again and it reminds me so poignantly that life...

Grief is a strange road to walk and I am not sure that there is ever an end date to it.  In the beginning it is all consuming and takes every fiber of your body, mind and soul and consumes it. ...

I have struggled with the reality of my late husband's legacy and not wanting his death from addiction to have no meaning.  At first I was resentful of the life insurance money that came from his...

Today I feel as though I haven't survived any of what has happened in the last two years.  I know from a day to day life standpoint I have.  I do what needs to be done and I function but I am not...

It has been a few months since I have updated my journal and once again life is shifting. We are getting closer to the anniversary date and my youngest (4) and my oldest (12) seem to be managing...

Life is finally finding an even pace. School and homework with three of them is a challenge but they all seem to have found a routine that works. No after school things going on just yet as I still...

This is going to sound strange but I did a good thing by taking something away from my kids.  For years the kids have been in a bowling league and for the most part it was a struggle.  Every...