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???? Ultimate Blog Challenge Day 12 — Finding Light Again
Before the day gets away from us, I wanted to share Day 12 in The Ultimate Blog Challenge: Finding Light Again — Moving Forward After Hard Days Meta Description: A comforting, evergreen reflection on rediscovering light and hope after loss, with gentle reminders about health and family support. Day 12 arrived with a different kind of quiet — the kind that settles in after a hard day, when the world feels heavier but somehow clearer. Yesterday we buried Larry, my family stood beside Lisa and Joseph, and held space for grief that doesn’t disappear overnight. Today isn’t about pretending everything’s fine. It’s about finding the light again — even if it’s small. The Morning After– Grief changes the air in a house. Bear stays close, Pheobie follows…
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???? Ultimate Blog Challenge Day 11 — Walking Through Loss & Moving Forward
Day 11: Walking Through Loss and Learning to Move Forward — Family, Faith & Cancer Awareness is something that weights heavy on my heart as my grandmother had 10 sisters and brothers. Yesterday we buried my cousin Larry who passed away from Pancretic Cancer, and this makes me worry either my brother my sister or I will end up with Cancer. Please keep Lisa Marie Bird and her family in your Prayers as we bury my cousin Larry her husband. — One of my mom’s best friends and a man who fought hard, loved deeply, and left this world far too soon because of pancreatic cancer. Loss has a way of stopping time and speeding it up at once. One minute you’re remembering childhood stories, the next you’re…
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Cook Once, Eat Twice: Our Sunday Steak Dinner + Apartment‑Friendly Grill Review + $5 Monday Lunch
I know I’ve said this is a thousand times but Sundays in our home doesn’t look like the picture-perfect reels or the “slow living” posts. They look like real life — boys wandering in and out, David working, Gerald waiting on my sister, dogs pacing, and me upstairs trying to work while life happens around me. But one thing we DO try to hold onto is Sunday dinner — not lunch, because we do Church at home over the computer with Mikalya, and not everyone is awake, home, or in the same mood at the same time. Dinner is our anchor. Dinner is where we reset. Dinner is where we…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
