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A Christmas Surprise

December 11, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we received a great big box in the mail. Shelby drug it in through the front door, and we slid it across the living room floor, near the Christmas tree, to open it up. I zipped a pocket knife through the tape and she pulled open the top of the box to reveal presents of all shapes and sizes. She squirmed with excitement, while Mike and I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Holidays, loss, grief, Christmas, new chapters, family, widow, sarah treanor, love

Holidays and How our Stories Unfold

November 27, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

There were two really meaningful things about Thanksgiving for me this year. Firstly, I was at my sister’s house in upstate New York. For the first time in our adult lives, we now live close enough to each other that we can do the holidays together. This is an enormous deal for me… one that makes me wish our mom was alive to be a part of it…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: interconnected, widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, death, life lessons, bereavement, new chapters, living in the moment, new joy

To Choose Pain

October 11, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s been a long week. Most of my stuff has sat in storage since Drew died three years ago. And before that, probably half those boxes hadn’t been opened in years. With the move to Ohio in just a few weeks, it’s time to finally tackle this. I decided that I didn’t want to take any extra baggage (literally) with me on this new venture, and that…

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About A Girl

September 27, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m back in Texas this week, after having visited Mike for two weeks. My last day there, we drove up to Niagara Falls to meet up with my sister and her family. It was her first time meeting him and his daughter Shelby, and it was wonderful to see how well he fit in. Again, just like with my friends, he fit into the picture eerily as well as Drew.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses Tagged With: new chapters, parent loss, new direction, widow, other losses, sarah treanor, loss, grief, new love, kids, moving forward, bereavement, children, moving

The First Big Departure

September 20, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s official. Last night, I signed a lease agreement for the rental house. (As you can see, Mike’s daughter Shelby is just as excited as I am) So… as of the end of next month, I will be packing up everything I own and moving to Ohio. This whole thing is so surreal and honestly doesn’t feel real at all. The house is amazing… twice the size of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widow, leaving, sarah treanor, loss, grief, new love, moving forward, beginnings, bereavement, new chapters, letting go, moving, new direction

Grieving the Grief Years

August 2, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I had an all-out breakdown a few days ago. The kind I haven’t had in at least a year. I am chocking it up partly to hormones and the damned full moon, but also to everything else going on. Nothing is settled in my life. Most of the time I am used to this, and I ride the waves well. But sometimes it piles up. My career as an artist is sort of like…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loss, grief, new love, Change, widowhood, Looking Back, moving forward, perspective, dating, bereavement, widow, new chapters, sarah treanor, hindsight

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