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Remembering to Live

October 14, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Everyone has a favorite holiday. Mine is Halloween. I decorate the house inside and out. I spend tireless hours on costumes. I await my first haunted house of the season with eager anticipation. I’ve always liked this holiday, but it wasn’t until after Drew died that it became something I appreciated more deeply. Just 4 months after he died, my…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: sarah treanor, Holidays, coping, halloween, traditions, finding joy again, haunted house, embracing humor

Have a Friggin Holly Jolly Christmas

December 19, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

As we near Shelby’s 11th Christmas, what will be our third without Megan around, I’ve got my head down.  I’m powering through this week at work, excited more for the 4 day break from the monotony than any festivities.  Every activity, preparation, and event seems more like a “have to” than a “get to”.  Wrapping gifts, baking…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, Stress, Mike Welker, Holidays, traditions, perspective, Christmas

Putting Death out Front

October 8, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past week, Mike, Shelby and I put up our usual Halloween decorations in the front yard. For some folks, the idea of putting a graveyard in your front yard once a year might be tacky or in bad taste. We have no idea what our neighbors think – though none of them decorate at all for Halloween so they probably care very little. Some people take…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Miscellaneous Tagged With: sarah treanor, halloween, traditions, rituals, normalizing death, children and death

The Magic about Death

October 2, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

  (Above) A traditional cemetery celebration on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).    This time of year reminds me of just how important magic is. While life holds it’s own magic, death certainly holds an even more inexplicable magic all it’s own. Not in the sense of tricks and jokes, but in the sense of wonder and possibility. Now, I know…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: customs, widow, sarah treanor, loss, honoring the dead, traditions, rituals, death, ofrenda, day of the dead, dia de los muertos

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