Let's Pretend We're Normal

“Oh, my word, I’m living this.”   Dear friend,   If you and I are new to each other, let me start here:  This is not how this was supposed to go!  In the portrait I had long ago painted of my family, I didn’t intend to include words like “widowed single mom.” I had envisioned many more decades with my husband Robb in the complicated, beautiful life of marriage. But in the course of twelve hours, our family of four became a trio, and since that day my boys and I have been crea