Kelly Ann's Blog

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  • In the beginning…

    I started counting hours..

    I started counting days…

    I started counting weeks…

    I started counting months…

    Yesterday, March 12, 2025 marked 8 months…

    8 months since I heard your voice

    8 months since you told me you loved me

    8 months that I saw your heart beat

    You know how some emotions steamroll you?

    One minute you are folding laundry

    the next you are falling apart

    I am no stronger today than I was 8 months ago…

    but I am am determined…

    Determined to move forward

    To follow our plans…our path…our future…

    but instead of “our” I am following mine

    but you will always be beside me

    as I blaze a new path

    blaze a new future

    with you forever in my heart!

    rr

  • Watching Weston and Carlee dance around the friendzone in this slow burning story that once it heats it…it really heats up. She has rules, she breaks the rules…but once you get a real peak at the behind the scenes story everything falls in to place. Once the steam kicks in…it seriously kicks in. Once the love kicks in…well that is a fun dance to watch. I love the Merryville group that is brought in…and let’s not forget there is some drama…and wow…once you discovery about the craycray ex…wow. And it wouldn’t be co plate with a HEA and a little surprise at the end!

    I received a free copy of this book from the author but all opinions are mine.

  • I miss the chats about stupid stuff

    I miss the comments while watching tv about the newscasters suit

    I miss the mundane

    the every day stuff that the only people that care about it are the ones in the middle of it

    the every day chatter

    these are just a very small amount of the things I miss

    about Andrew

    rr

  • The last couple of years I’ve become a music junkie…Andrew and I started watching the Grammy’s several years ago and each time we’d hear a new (to us) artist we would add them to our play list. My apple music is all over the place, from Mipso to Billie Eilish to Benson Boone to Taylor Swift to Norah Jones…just really depends on my mood.

    I’m sitting here this afternoon, listening to a channel compilation from AppleMusic

    …and it does not disappoint.

    Two summers ago, well now almost three, we started listening to music on the back porch, in our own little world, surrounded by the trees. We took turns on what we would listen to…me leaning towards Norah and Mipso and Benson, him leaning towards Taylor and Billie…we would read as the music washed over us.

    I now listen to music all the time thanks to AppleMusic and Homepods. I have the mini-homepods all through the house, kitchen, sewing room, office, even my little sitting area that I love in the summer with the sun beaming in. In the living room I have two of the bigger original Homepods, and as I type this I’m listening to a channel that is perfect…it’s a mix of all the current artist I like.

    So as I sit here listening to our favorite artist, drinking a Cosmo that Andrew managed to perfect, my memories take me back to the summers on the porch…the music, the cocktails and the company…so many happy memories.

    So cheers to all my friends that listen to good music…read good books…and sip cocktails/wine/beer.

    kar

    ps: Here is the recipe for the KA Cosmo

  • Have you ever been in a mood…

    not a bad mood…

    just a mood

    Not able to put a finger on the whys

    just a mood

    Maybe it’s the frigid temperatures

    or the gray skies

    or the combo of both

    Or

    Maybe it’s not weather related

    it’s just what it is

    a mood

    But with everything else…this too shall pass because

    after all

    Tomorrow is a new day

    kar

  • Six months has past since you last said my name but I say yours daily.

    When someone loses someone they love, the looks, the sadness in others eyes is almost too much to grasp when you are dealing with your own grief. But the panic in their eyes, not knowing if they could or should say their name, that is the worst.

    So

    Please

    Say

    Their

    Name

    When talking of lost loved ones, say their name. It’s okay, really, I promise you that to hear others say their name does bring comfort. The comfort comes from knowing that you did not forget what it was, that it still forms on your lips, that it is still in your mind, in your heart, that they are still with you.

    So

    Please

    Say

    Their

    Name

    I for one am grateful when I hear his name, because you see…over six months ago he said my name for the last time but I still say his daily.

    Andrew…to this day it still sounds so familiar on my lips because you see…he is still in

    my

    heart

    mind

    soul

    rr

  • Kintsugi – the art of repairing pottery with gold – a Japanese word literally means “golden joinery”

    I carry this word with me daily

    I use the image of repairing the cracks in my heart with gold or memories of the life we had together.

    So you see

    a broken heart

    can be mended

    with the memories of the love lost

    rr

  • Hold the memories close to your heart

    All memories

    the good

    the bad

    ALL The MEMORIES

    It is the memories that may break your heart

    It is the memories that may make your sad

    BUT

    It is the memories that will heal your heart

    It is the memories that will bring a small to your face

    Trust in the memories

    Happy Christmas

    rr

  • Another friend…another conversation…

    well she sits and stitches and I talk…and I talk some more…mostly about Andrew. As I’m talking, telling her about just the little things we did together or things he did for me…she said “just one of the million little things”

    THAT’S IT…

    It wasn’t the big things…

    but he did those too…

    it was the million little things he did for me…

    it’s how he showed his love for me…

    It’s those million little things I’m missing right now…

    rr

  • I saw this quote in a book I was reading…

    We can’t control a lot that is happening in our lives

    but

    we can adjust how we handle it

    Just like the quote, we can’t control the wind

    but

    we can adjust our sails

    So as I go in to another stage of this new life

    I

    will

    adjust my sails

    and allow the wind to show me a new horizon

    with memories held close in my heart

    rr