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Amanda Wright

Inane Distractions

Posted on: October 29, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

Recently,  the cable through which my house receives both TV and internet had a major fault.  It lasted 4 days.  …and I nearly lost my marbles. Part of the reason was that I needed to log onto the work system to download the latest files for school, but part of the reason was that I have come to rely on the television to provide an inane,…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

The little things

Posted on: March 20, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

    …that annoy me (and drive me to drink).Warning – disorganised tiredness and general whining follows….. Somedays I think being a widow has taught me patience, but there are other days when I realise my fuse is very short and I have no time for pedants and things that make my life harder.I question why, instead of helping to simplify my…

Categories: Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Lesser Losses

Posted on: March 13, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

  When the children were small, I convinced Greg that we should get some pets so that the children could learn about life cycles early in life.  They would experience the love and  loss of a pet and understand that everything that lives must die.So Greg captured some pullets from themany of chooks at the farm back in 2006.These were hardy farm…

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Four Years…

Posted on: March 6, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

  Four years since you left me.Suddenly.Violently.Bereft.Nobody could possibly begin to understand the soul connection we had. Anam Cara.We two were so closely linked….and yes, I know we are still connected.I have learnt to recognise the signs you send me.I know you are near.I know you miss nothing.I am lucky that intuition comes naturally to…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous

The Holidays are Over

Posted on: January 30, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

Australian children have just come back from their 6-week summer holidays. So have their teachers…. The first year after Greg died, I dreaded the Christmas holidays.  All those long weeks of just me and the kids.  NO trips away (every holiday doubles in price during the holidays as we all know).  No will to do more than walk the tracks to the…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays

Things that have Changed

Posted on: January 23, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

I am sitting here, marvelling at how far I’ve come since March 1, 2010; I am a different person with the same heart. I can now look back and remember the sharp, stabbing grief of that day.  The insanity.     The weeks and months directly  afterward where I alternated between shrieking pain and dense fog; I rocked and cried or I floated…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly

Hello 2014

Posted on: January 2, 2014 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

A new year. Bringing hopes and dreams for a year brighter than the last. I remember the first new year after Greg died.  I did not want it to happen. I hated the passage of time.  I did not want to welcome a year in which Greg had never lived.  Back in Ye Olden Days (ie – before we had children), we had a tradition of going up to a house near a…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Suddenly

I survived….

Posted on: December 26, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

… Christmas, that is. I won’t lie to you, the week before Christmas, I was not feeling great.  The weight of another Christmas without Greg weighed heavily on my mind.  I missed him. I know I miss him every day, but last week I really missed him. I missed sitting on the couch and snuggling, watching the lights on the tree flicker.   I…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Suddenly

Surviving Christmas

Posted on: December 19, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

I am finding it hard to find any Christmas spirit this year. I have no idea if I have bought the children presents that they will enjoy… just a couple of small gifts to keep up the pretense of Santa.    I have not sent a Christmas card in years … they remind me too much of all those funeral “thank you” cards that sat on my dining room table…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Suddenly

…..and breathe…..

Posted on: December 12, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

  Today was school break-up day.  Party Day.  Unofficial last day of the school year (except for tomorrow which is clean and scrub every single thing in the classroom day). I have been counting down to this day for the past month.  My class are tired. I am exhausted (and for those non-teachers who scoff, don’t until you’ve done it.  I used to…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

The lost art of flirting

Posted on: December 3, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

… well lost to me anyway. The last time I did “flirting” (without knowing that the flirtee was already very interested – ie Greg), I was in possession of a rather hot 22 year old body, flawless skin and a geeky naivete that was somehow attractive (who knew?). In other words, the most flirting I did was glancing in the direction of someone I…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Suddenly

Missing out

Posted on: November 19, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

Last week one of the parents of a child I teach had a bit of a tantrum after school one day*.  It seems her daughter missed out on having an iceblock with the rest of the class because she had been away the previous day. In her seething mother-rage, she shouted at me “It’s not FAIR that Cathy misses out on an iceblock.  The rest of the class had…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

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