The Widow Life

Summertime Decluttering: Week 3

I skipped a week, but I am wrapping up my get-ready-for-summer decluttering today. You can check out my earlier progress here: Summertime Decluttering: Week 1 Summertime Decluttering: Week 2 You will be shocked to hear that I never got to the bathroom cabinet. However, I did go through my personal bookshelf and cleared out enough…

How to Manage Summer Screen Time

We have one more week of school to go before summer break starts. I revel in not having to hustle kids out the door in the morning or ferry them to various activities in the evening. However, I dread the inevitable power struggle we seem to encounter every year when it comes to summer screen…

My husband hasn’t talked to me in three years.

It’s been more than three years since my husband said my name. More than three years since the hospice worker showed up, stopped the feeding tube and said, “I don’t think he’ll need that anymore.” It was more than three years ago that I stood on my porch listening to two hospice workers talk about…

Summertime Decluttering: Week 2

Last week, I started following along with Tsh Oxenreider of The Art of Simple in some pre-summer decluttering. You can find my post with last week’s decluttering plans here. Now, you may recall I said I was giving myself a lot of space to fail at this. But let’s not dwell on what I didn’t…

On Mother’s Day

There are holidays you expect to be especially hard after you become a widow. Father’s Day, for sure. Christmas too. But like most aspects of widowhood, reality is often a far cry from anything you imagined. Take Father’s Day for example. While I may not be skipping for joy when it rolls around, the day…