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Decisions, Decisions

October 26, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Sometimes, you don’t make decisions. Sometimes, decisions are just made for you. Like that time my husband died. I definitely didn’t decide that. And as a result, a cascade of other decisions I didn’t make happened.   I just had no choice in the matter. All the things you do in life, day-to-day or long term, doing any of those things without…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: changes, stephanie vendrell, decisions, middle age

Soul Searching

June 8, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I saw my therapist today, for the first time in about two years, we figured. She was the one who first helped begin to lift me out of the fog in those early weeks and months after Mike’s death. She knows my story, knows me. I had been thinking of her a lot this year, with all the issues and decisions I am facing, and low and behold, I literally ran…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: decisions, life changes, suddenly widowed, moving, family, stephanie vendrell

My Own Decisions

June 6, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Summer is here.  Shelby’s last day of school is tomorrow.  Work is slowing down, after the “sales” season rolls into the “build” season for the company I work for.  Weekends are a time for rest and relaxation.  Time to get things done around the house, and to spend time in the woods, at the beach, or just taking in an overnight trip…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Miscellaneous Tagged With: kids, decisions, Grandparents, Commitments, Assumptions, Fatherhood, widower, family, Mike Welker, widower with children

Smiling Through the Tears

May 18, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I don’t really have anything particular to write about this week. No news on the house, work is going, school is going.   In the middle of it all, I am feeling that ring of sadness around it all. Sad that my life has changed so much as a result of losing Mike, sad that he isn’t here to share it with anymore, sad that my future will not include…

Filed Under: Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: gratitude, stephanie vendrell, decisions, middle age, suddenly widowed, moving

What do You Think?

March 22, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

So I bought a table.   It was only forty dollars, and it’s a little round glass patio table.  Shelby and I spent an hour or so unpackaging it, laying the parts out, and assembling it.  I know this sounds completely mundane, even boring, but bear with me.  This table symbolizes something.   It’s not sentimental, really.  It wasn’t…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Mike Welker, widower with children, Metaphors, moving forward, opinions, decisions, purchases, widower

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