Keep Calm and Carry On

On the back of my bedroom door there is a bright red poster. It says, in big, white letters,

KEEP CALM

AND

CARRY ON

My good friend, Mary Deeley, who also happens to be Brendan's godmother and who also happens to be a chaplain at our church, gave me a copy of this poster during Tim's final illness.

You can read a brief history of this poster at www.keepcalmandandcarryon.com/pages/history.

Anyway, Mary and I decided that it was a perfect motto for my life at that time.

It still is a great slogan for life. Here I am, a newly widowed mother of two boys ages 10 and 13, trying to navigate my way (our way) through a place we never wanted to be. But the only way to get through this time and on to somewhere better is to keep calm and carry on.