The house we live in has been our longest residence each in the City of Portland. I found some old pictures of when we moved in and we can compare it to what the house looks like now.
After
Before
After
A conversation with Amber Cook on the Dragonfly Connection, where I talk about green dreams and raising my son in a new world.
Using essential oils for grief can help us walk through our pain in a way that can allow us to better manage in the world.
Peter and I were barely working between the two of us, he had been laid off and with struggles feeding Levi I was barely pulling 5 hours a week. We were at the DHS office applying for food stamps when Peter got the call that yes indeed TriMet was offering him a job. We had been at the DHS office since 7:20 am and we finally got home close to 10:30 am. We barely set our things down, relieved that there was more money in our future and we could at least buy food for our small family when the phone rang. It was my mother. It was one of those phone calls where you just know something is wrong, and how wrong it was. She asked if I was sitting down, and I think I sat down. She didn’t wait to tell me and simply said, “Cristi is dead.”
It’s so much greener now!
It certainly helps that the front picture was taken either May or June, but right after a rain… :O)