The Teal Shamrock

Today will be my final post. Thank you to all who have read and followed along with me and my family, on this year-long journey. We apprecia...

Here are some wedding pictures from May 1998. I was Guen's maid-of-honor, as she was mine. I was 5 months pregnant, and quite exhausted ...

Guen celebrates her second Easter with our Lord today. She rests in splendor and joy. After sunrise service, we will visit her grave, and pl...

I made up this bouquet for Easter with different types of white ranunculus, and sweet peas. It smells incredible:) A dramatic change took pl...

Yesterday I had a nice visit with Madame Butterfly herself. Libby is growing everyday and speaking very full sentences. Her vocabulary seems...

A card I made this year for me mum. Slainte!

The fact that the 12th of the month comes and goes without upsetting me, must show some healing in my grief. At first I was so fearful of ha...

Katrina is 25 and started suffering from severe back pain. After many tests she has been diagnosed with Leukemia. Chemo started last week. S...

I'm not in love with this Joni Mitchell song, but Amy Grant does a decent cover. I find the meaning profound and the words make me think...

John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt ...

Dear Guen we miss you today. We will be thinking about you all day. Hope they serve the fudgiest cake in Heaven. The sun doesn't shine a...

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I don't know this lovely mother, but after reading the blo g we can all share in her pain.

I have a friend who lost her daughter, due to a car accident 2 years ago. She still is not coping. This was in today's Grief Share email...

I have been anticipating today's date for quite awhile. This day last year was the day that everything changed. I remember the call that...

Today is the nine month anniversary since Guen's passing, and I am relieved to say that the 12th of every month is not as bitter a pill ...

I was looking up fonts and came across some really nice ones for a new project. The artist, named Sara, had made a design statement so I loo...

As this year comes to a close, I look forward to not only a happy new year but also a happy new decade. I will go into 2010 with the certain...

I purchased this ornament this year for my tree, in my sister's memory. Back in the day, Precious Moments was something I was fond of. I...

Today marks 8 months since Guen passed. You don't realize how precious some gifts are, until you lose them. No one was to know that Guen...

Guen's treasured gifts were her family. She was very happily married to Dave. She never said an unkind word about him in their 11 years ...

These Angel Wings are being sold on etsy and I love the concept. The artist, Lana Manis, rolls up individual pages from vintage books. I ra...

This is Christmas 2001 at our old house. We did a buffet instead of a sit down dinner. Guen was really into Nick Chavez hair products at the...

This is 2002 at my old house and we were celebrating Thanksgiving. We had no idea that would be our last holidays there, as a new house was ...

This is Christmas 2003 at the Molloys'. This was the first Christmas in their new house.