Now Choose Life

Choose Life in the after- after the spouse dies, after the marriage ends, after the kids leave

  • Grief
  • Books
  • Food
  • Travel
  • What I Wore
  • links
  • Faith
  • Home
  • Favorite Things

Big Goal

March 3, 2016 by Sharon

When my kids were little, we always went to my and R’s hometown for Christmas.  The aircraft company that he worked for always closed the week between Christmas and New Years so we had time to spend with both of our families.  It was important to us to have C and M grow up around their grandparents even though we lived 10 hours away.

The drive home was always long, but one thing always stayed the same.  We talked about goals for the coming year.  We wrote those goals down.  I hope the kids remember doing this because I think it is important to have goals and share them with others.

I haven’t made a lot of goals since R died.  My life has just not been the same and to be really honest, just making it through the days was a really lofty goal.  But now that I feel like I have my feet under me again, I have a big goal to share.  This is funny to me because I don’t have many readers to this blog… I haven’t shared it with anyone in my family  as of yet because I like the idea of my words just going out into the great void of the Internet and hopefully someone finding them who needs to see it at that certain time.

Here is the goal— to grow this blog…To up my readership… to write on a regular basis.  A friend who has always encouraged me to write told me about this book Your Life Is A Book: How to craft & publish your memoir .  Reading this book is going to be my jumping off place.  It has writing prompts at the end of each chapter.  I will not bore you with a too long post today by answering the first prompt, but it will be soon.

So there you have it… My first goal in a very long time.  I hope I reach it.

I saw this and thought it was so funny.  I sent it to my mom, sister and M.  The thought of being on a high horse may be part of my next post!!

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

After her husband’s sudden and unexpected death, Sharon McCuistian found herself a widow at the age of 48. With two grown children in college, Sharon had to find a way to live in her new reality. She turned to the things she loved to help in her grief: faith, family, and friends. Her love of words and writing became the cathartic venue by which she began to process her loss. It is through her grief journey that Now Choose Life was born. Read More

Follow Me On

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

10 Items I’m Glad I Had On hand When I Got COVID

I’m so glad I had these 10 items on hand when I came down with COVID. This post contains some affiliate links to these products. I make a small amount off of your qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Until last week, I had managed to escape getting sick from COVID. What I’m […]

Things Piquing My Interest #89

Things Piquing My Interest #89. Wow- 89 posts of sharing things that are of interest to me seem impossible, but I’ve been doing this for quite some time. Many others are doing it now because we learned about these “Round Up” posts in my blogging mastermind group. I started doing it because some of my […]

2023 Has One Goal

2023 has one goal. Be Healthier. That’s it. All I want for 2023 is to be healthier version of myself at the end of the year than I am at the beginning. Although it’s an easy phrase, it’s pack with so much meaning for me. Of course, I want to be healthier physically, but I’m […]

Books I Read In 2022

Wow- the number of books I read in 2022 was more than I realized. Several blogs that I follow have been listing what they read in 2022 so I thought I would do the same. I have this book by my favorite book blogger Modern Mrs. Darcy, but I can’t remember to always fill it […]

Things Piquing My Interest #88

I love sharing things piquing my interest! Happy Peak of the Week/ Peak of the month. AND Merry Christmas! The house is decorated. All presents are bought. I’ve led a GriefShare- Surviving The Holidays and hosted a Cookie Exchange. We have a party this weekend, and then we leave for Texas to spend time with […]

Recent Posts

  • 10 Items I’m Glad I Had On hand When I Got COVID
  • Things Piquing My Interest #89
  • 2023 Has One Goal
  • Books I Read In 2022
  • Things Piquing My Interest #88

Follow Me On

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Home
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023