Friday Funny Bonus: Tis the Season

Playing Catch Up: Toy Drive 2012

Every year, I donate a teddy bear to the annual toy drive in memory of my babybear. This is this year's bear.

Here he is in the pile of toys.

Friday Funny: Flamingo

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians.

Christmas in Heaven

This is babybear's 7th Christmas in Heaven
and Bear's 4th.

Check out my guest post over at Mabel's House.

Thanks, Liz & Mabel for the opportunity!

Friday Funny: Grinch

Happy Holidays.

I Miss Christmas.

(our last Christmas photo - the only Christmas Emma got to celebrate)
can you tell I was fake-smiling even then?

I miss Christmas.
I miss you.

Seeing everyone else post about Christmas
is making me sadder and sadder.

In Flander's Fields

To Be Thankful...

(our last Thanksgiving Dinner, 2007)
I wish we took more photos of us.

Today is Thanksgiving.

I'm trying hard to be thankful.
This weekend marked 3 years
(THREE YEARS!!)
since my husband fell down the stairs
and ended up in the hospital for good.
It was a couple days before Thanksgiving, 2008.

How hard it is to be thankful
when your entire family has died.

But
I am thankful...

... for my pup.
... for my friends and other loved ones.
... to still have my house.

and every day
I will learn to be thankful again.