Sometimes it Really is that Simple
The work we have done this week in recovering from the fire has been hard. It has been that moment …
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Emotinoal Value and Monitary Value
We have been working on completing our personal property inventory for our insurance claim. It has taken a long time …
Learning What We Already Know
I have a new lesson from the fire this week. I learned what I already know. Sometimes it is easy …
Dog Here
Dog here. In case you don’t know me, I am Sophie. I am the dog. Mom has not let me …
Sophie’s Gotta Go Pee Pee
“Sophie needs to go pee pee.” Years ago our dog, Sophie, learned that the way to ask to go out …
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Today, like so many days living in our temporary lives in our temporary house waiting for the promise of a …
The Essential Thanksgiving Dinner
We had the essentials of Thanksgiving dinner tonight. It was not a fancy affair. The three hours of the smell …
Learning Thankfulness from the Ashes of Our Fire
We have steeled ourselves for weeks to use Thanksgiving week to buckle down and survive the tedium and emotional onslaught …
Thankfulness and a Thirteen Pound Turkey
To be exact, it is a 13.68 pound turkey. Thanksgiving is this week and we are furiously working on the …
Crushed Under the Weight of the Grief and Paperwork of Loss
The past two days have been some of the harder ones in a good long while. It is not the …
Building One Home 