Time has passed and it has been ten whole years since I became a widow and my whole life changed. Everyone knows that I will forever love and miss my Mike. There is a hole in my heart and life that only he could fill. I carry the loss of him with me every day.
But, so many new things have happened since I wrote my first page about myself so I think I need to add a new one. I was still totally immersed in widowhood and just wanted to share with the world some of my thoughts about it all.
At this time, I plan to leave up most of my old posts that I wrote on the blog in the beginning years. I still want to show how God has been with me even at some of my lowest points on this journey that continues to change and present new challenges. I still hope widows will find hope from my journey.
On August 20, 2025, I wrote a post about meeting Bobby and falling in love again. We decided to take another chance on love, and were married in October 2022. It was a major life change for both of us and while we are continuing to adjust to our new life together, we both still feel like God arranged for us to be together at this stage of our lives.
Both of us had been happily married for over 44 years, lost our first loves to cancer, and then spent several years of living alone in grief and loss. We will forever love and miss our first loves. We know they helped shape us into who we are now.
By the time we met, we were ready to look forward to a future together, even though we weren’t sure what that was going to look like. I guess we still aren’t sure. But, we have continued to take life day by day. We figure if God wanted us to be together, then He will help us to work out the issues that come up. And we know they will always come up.
Bobby has three children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren in his own family right now. He keeps busy trying to keep up with all of their activities. He gets great joy watching them perform in their many events, and tries to attend a lot of their activities.
My own family has continued to grow with my three children, and ten wonderful grandchildren now. I try to keep up on what’s happening in their busy lives and activities, and always love being with them. I am so thankful for their continued unconditional love and support. They continue to bring me great joy! I am so proud of all of them!
To be honest, our main activity now is going to our grandkids’ events. We love them so much and want to be involved in their lives. They are all growing up so quickly and there’s only so much time to be with them. So we go a lot!
Sometimes that means splitting up our time together, so that he can be with his family while I am with my family. We realize that we both brought well loved and established family interests and rituals from our previous marriages. It’s a true juggling act, but we’ve tried to respect and honor our past along with honoring our own new life together.
All of our children and their families are in their busy parenting years. We both remember being in those years and so we try to be with them when it works for all of us.
Bobby and I know that many people love to hear our new life story. We hope it is a story of God’s faithful love and care, even when life doesn’t make sense. Our grief and loss will always be with us even as our life keeps changing and we keep trying to move forward together.
Sovereign God has continued to hold me and continues to offer me hope for my future that only He can see. I have been so blessed in my life to have two wonderful men to love me.
Still Blessed and Grateful,
Karren