During lockdown, we were scared to go to the grocery store so we ate what was in the pantry. Lots of forgotten cans and bottles and dried goods got consumed. During a time of great uncertainty, it felt like a small but worthy accomplishment. Ha! Here is a mini spaghetti sauce bottle memento for the… Continue reading Eat the pantry
We lost a wonderful friend to COVID. He loved to golf. This physical memento is a small golf club pendant in his memory.
This physical memento is a small rubber dog bone to act as a shout out to all the pandemic pets out there! Here’s to all the new pets brought into people’s home during the pandemic. And here’s to all the pets that helped their owners during difficult pandemic times.
Carole Sue Dornbusch. 12/24/40 – 1/4/22. Carole died of a blood clot due to COVID-19. Carole lived everyday shining the light of Jesus. She died in HIS name and is now at eternal peace.
Today is Match Day! All across the United States, fourth-year medical students find out where they will be going for their residency training. It’s intense. It’s exciting. I’ve always said that Match Day is filled with the entire spectrum of raw human emotion. Kudos to the med students this year and last year that had… Continue reading Match Day 2022
No one in my family had any sort of haircut in the first year of the pandemic. We finally found a family friend we could hire to come to our house and do haircuts outside even in chilly and breezy weather. Thank goodness for her! She was a trooper. Here are a mini comb and… Continue reading Hair care
My grandfather, Marvin Stewart, passed away on June 20, 2020. I honor both his strength and his perseverance through the pain of a long illness. He did so with grace, and with his usual humor that was full of sarcasm and (very) dry wit. I miss him every day. My physical memento, a wooden tractor… Continue reading For Marvin
The kids love seeing the dinosaur fossils at the U’s Natural History Museum. Once COVID hit, we stopped going. It seems like a trivial loss, but it was our go-to family activity. How strange to feel scared of going to a museum. Fortunately, we made some trips to the desert and got to see real… Continue reading Dinosaur
In March 2020, I had been a widow for less than 2 years. LBL and I had been together for almost 30 years. I was living alone and finally starting to get into a daily routine of life without my late husband LBL. Global lockdown hit and it was lonely. Trying to keep my sense… Continue reading March 2020: missing my late husband during lockdown
My husband and I had two little hearts grow during the height of the pandemic in 2021. The first baby we lost naturally by way of a miscarriage- while the second was an ectopic pregnancy, meaning the embryo had to be surgically removed along with the uterine tube it accidentally started to grow into. My… Continue reading Two hearts became two angels
