This week I’m going to dive into a suuuper popular topic: headstone planning! I’m sure everyone is just dying to read more about this :). Nothing says “cheerful blog” like another post about death. One of my late father-in-law’s final requests was that he have a headstone placed in his church cemetery, so we’ve been […]
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Our Kenmore dryer died this week. Well technically it stopped heating clothes, but it still tumbles. The heating function no longer gets hot, so clothes roll around in lukewarm air. I’m glad this happened because now there is a better reason to replace it. We have decided not to try and repair the issue. For
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It’s been a little over a year since my father-in-law passed away, and his birthday is coming up soon. There have been times where I have wanted to say hello and let him know what we’ve been up to, so I thought I’d write a letter this weekend. Here it is. Dear G, We still
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Does anyone else think about death daily? I realized only within the last few weeks that I think about death a lot. But this wasn’t always the case. It was around the time my father-in-law fell ill in 2023 that I really started to contemplate death, mortality, and life after death. It started first with
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