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The Last Dance

April 10, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Shelby is nearing the end of her 5th grade year.  In just a few more months, she will be off to middle school.  All I have known of her for most of her life is that she is an elementary school student. Through the sickness, health, additional sickness, and death of her mother, she has never skipped a beat, still bringing home 3.0 or higher…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Milestones, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, milestones, Mike Welker, widower with children, dance, End, Daughter, school, Routines, Reflection

Noticing Saturdays

September 22, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

There’s nothing special, or particular, about Saturdays. And I’m not sure when, how or why it started. Maybe a few months ago. Somewhere along the way I just started noticing how quickly the weeks seem to be speeding by. Yawn. Oh, wow, another Saturday morning already. How is that possible?   I lie there staring at the ceiling for a few moments…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: young widow, widowed, widow, changes, school, stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed

Whodathunkit?

September 8, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

This has been a week during which my world has been dominated by Biology 101. I have to smile as I type that, because I never, ever imagined I would be excited about studying biology, of all things. You have to know, my mom was a biologist and spent most of her career as a college level teacher. She’s retired now, but she was always telling me…

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Peanut Butter and Homework

September 6, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Last week, Shelby started the fourth grade.  This is the second school year that she has begun without Megan doting over every paper she brought home, every picture day, PTA meeting, or fundraiser flyer th at seems to be more frequent than homework.  Her peanut butter sandwiches (which she eats every day for lunch, no matter how much we suggest…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Routines, Silver Linings, Motherless, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, kids, school

Stepping Stones

August 25, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

My marriage to Mike wasn’t perfect. I mean come on…there is usually at least some issue that arises even in the happiest of partnerships. And we had plenty. Most of our concerns stemmed from his unhealthy eating habits and the results of that but we had other little annoying problems and arguments too. On the whole, though, we were happy. We…

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Survival Preparedness

August 18, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

The past few weeks I feel as if my life is flowing forward full throttle. This week was the 3 1/2 year mark of Mike’s death, on the 17th, and I can honestly say it has taken this long for me to be able to handle this kind of momentum and change. But I can also say that somehow, in some way, I feel more than ready for it, suddenly.  Surviving…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: young widow, moving, widowed, widow, Change, relationships, school, stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed

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