MarieAnn

Guess it is more than time to update what has been going on these days.  Today was the first day of school for my daughters and the first day of kindergarten for my youngest.  She was very excited...

We came back from vacation late Friday night.  It was a good trip.  The kids were very excited and as I had hoped it was the pin that deflated the intensity that had been building in our home over...

I told the kids this morning that we are leaving on a vacation today.  They are excited to go and my son seemed relieved that we wouldn't be here on the anniversary date.  Although for us it is a...

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...

We had a great holiday season and it was a calm and peaceful school vacation.  It is not often that can be said so I am grateful for it.  Someone asked me what Santa brought me and I said peace and...

The traditions continued today and we baked our usual batch of cookies and made ornaments for the tree.  Every year when we decorate the tree we put up the ones from years past and talk about the...

It has been a long time since I have used this journal and so many things have shifted and changed.  This month was harder than I expected it to be for the kids.  It wasn't the first holiday season...

Life keeps moving forward and I am trying to go with it.  This month has been one of ups and downs as usual but the time in between is more spread out which is helping the healing.  The in between...

Grief is a hard thing to describe to people and a harder thing to experience when it is a new experience.  I have been busy managing and trying to get back into a normal daily routine.  The hard...