My favorite holiday on the calendar bursts into the year just when we need it most. But this year it holds extra special meaning for me. And it arrived before I was ready for it.
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{{ A Father’s Day message to my father-in-law }}
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I knew nothing about the subject of a broody hen adopting chicks. Until last night that is. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure here. ♥ I was up early. Which is very uncommon lately. Recently, sleep alludes me until the wee hours of the day, then, once I can crash from exhaustion,
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This week marks my first holiday of love without the two people who loved me the longest; and I’ll be missing my mom and dad on Valentine’s Day. This is the third in a four-part series about grieving the loss of a loved one. Since I can’t send mom and dad a valentine this year, I decided to send
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It’s been quiet but productive around the homestead this week. There has been cold wind, treacherous ice, and standard difficulties, but when I focus on those things then sings my soul from somewhere in me but apart from me, reminding me I am blessed. I am reminded that even in the hard moments there is indeed reason to
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Saying goodbye to a loved one takes a while. It happens in stages. I’ve been saying goodbye to my Mom and Dad for many weeks. I imagine I will be for a lifetime. But I’ve learned, for me at least, there have been four stages of grief: DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. ♥ __________________________ { This is
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I hadn’t heard all the hype about Broken Heart Syndrome. The hype that, apparently, filled social media for a week after Debbie Reynolds died just one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher. I had been pretty removed from the world, actually, and clueless to news stories since mom first started her chemo treatment eight weeks
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It’s been a tough week. One of my toughest in 46 years.
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We’re walking down our road, which twists like a winding snake stretching out parts to warm in the sun, when she tells me. She reveals that fall is her favorite smell. I’m not surprised that the slightly musky aroma of damp leaves being warmed in the sun, then cooled in the breeze, only to be
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