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Things to Come

Nov 22, 2014 By elinwaldal 20 Comments

Things to Come

On Thursday morning Jimmy and I brought our youngest daughter to the airport, she was headed off to Orlando to play lacrosse. Although she had traveled alone a number of times to compete, this time felt different. I could not help but feel aware of things to come, it was as if the future — our […]

Filed Under: Empty Nest, NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: Empty nest, Love, Mother, Teenagers

Losing Ellie

Nov 17, 2014 By elinwaldal 44 Comments

Losing Ellie

Losing Ellie, my husband’s mother, was one of the most difficult things our family has experienced. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could have prepared us for her unexpected loss of life. What I have found is emotions stay. They don’t remain at the surface the way dried blood does as a scab to the skin. No, emotional wounds are different. All that […]

Filed Under: Death of a Parent, Grief, NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: car accident, Death of a loved one, Death of Mother, Grief, Love, Mother

Veterans Day: My Mother the WASP

Nov 11, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 15 Comments

Veterans Day: My Mother the WASP

In December of 1943 my mother, who then went by, Elinor Fairchild, received a letter from Jaqueline Cochran, Director of Women Pilots of The War Department, letting her know that it looked as if they would have room for Elinor in the next WASP training class slated to begin, January 9, 1944. I can almost […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, Women Tagged With: Mother, Veteran's Day, WASP, Women Pilots, WWII

Shepherding death; letting go of my mother

Jun 20, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 31 Comments

Shepherding death; letting go of my mother

  It was the sort of awakening that occurs when a phone’s ring interrupts a deep sleep–the kind that if needed, propels one into motion, only there was no phone ringing, I simply felt called. Less than 20 minutes later I was checking in with the night security guard at the hospital, as he handed […]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: Daughter, Death of Mother, Grief, Loss of Parent, Mother

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