My first Valentine’s with M, we were both sick with colds. Soup and grilled cheese was our special Valentine’s dinner. Although it might have been that grilled cheese that made her fall more in love with me

Holidays can be hard in general for most people. Holidays for those grieving adds just additional layers to make things difficult. The first Christmas after Michaela died, I did a big tree to honor her. It had all sorts of butterflies

Today would have been my love’s 53 birthday. I have a candle burning for her. I didn’t know what I would do to celebrate her and the 50 years she lived here

M always said it felt like the holidays when I started baking. Today made peanut butter blossoms…

I felt like I need to do an apology because I am having a hard time keeping in touch with people.

Michaela enjoyed having a corned beef sandwich on St. Patrick’s day.

I made her a simplistic little book. It had lyrics and little pieces of collage to match the mix-cd.

Every morning, I look at FB memories to see if we tagged each other in a post. It makes me cry most days, but I am hanging on to our memories.