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15 years

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Crazy to believe it’s been 15 years. Sometimes, the memories are so vivid, so deeply etched in my mind, that it feels like yesterday we were just starting our lives together. Other times, the passage of a decade and a half feels immense, a testament to all the life that's happened since. We would have been married for 16 years this past November.  It's crazy to think of all of the things Patrick missed out on. Olivia Olivia is 14 1/2 and started driver's ed this summer.  She's been in her favorite sport for 6 years and plans on joining the high school basketball team.  She just started her first real job working with A&W at EAA with her cousin Kate. Even though she's been dog sitting for years and absolutely loving it.  I may have been asked if she can get a dog about 493,349,029 times. She finished middle school this spring and was awarded the Citizen of the Year for the whole school.  You see, she's the kindest person you'd ever meet.  A true empath....
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10 years

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Patrick Blessing-8/12/1975-7/22/2010 Well, it's been about 6 years since I've written my last blog post.  I was posting pretty consistent for about 3 1/2 years and then it stopped.  Life got busy.  I decided that a milestone like this deserved a post.  So here I go. I cannot believe that it's actually been 10 years.  It has gone fast, that's for sure.  But it also seems like it was just yesterday.  I relive that moment I was delivered the news that changed my life forever.  A lot has also changed in 10 years.  10 years ago, I thought I'd be in a much different spot and better off than I currently am now.  10 years ago I was 6 months pregnant, living in Wauwatosa, working at Kohl's Corp., married and my husband was laid off and in the hospital for 3 weeks waiting for a heart transplant.  Today I am single, look like I'm 6 months pregnant (LOL), have a 9 1/2 year old, I work for a College and we're living through a pandemic. ...
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Positively Impacting Lives

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Over a month ago, I got a call from a friend, Andrew.  Patrick, Andrew and Nate all worked together back in 2001 when they started up a medical staffing company, Medix.  Patrick was their first employee and promotion.  Andrew started talking about how well their company is doing now, how far it's come since inception, etc.  Then he started talking about the re-branding of their company.  They redid their Core Values and Core Purpose.  He explained how he's been really rethinking things the last year and what really got him and Medix to this point.  He talked a lot about Patrick and back in the day stories.  He kept coming back to what Patrick was, is what their Core Purpose was.  Positively Impacting Lives.  Patrick was their Core Values and Core Purpose.  After he was explaining everything, I was in tears.  He then said he had a question for me.  He wanted to know if they could name a new annual award in Patrick's name....
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Christmas in Tyrone

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I know I know.  It's been 5 months since my last post.   I promise to do another one this week while I'm on vacation and catch you up on the summer and fall.  But for now, I will tell you all about our Christmas vacation. Much to everyone not wanting me to drive to PA by myself with Olivia, I did it.  Proud that I made it there and back without having a breakdown.  I really wished Patrick could be on this trip with us.  He loved going to PA and loved being with family.  He was greatly missed on this trip, as he is every day. Olivia and I left Fond du Lac on Saturday, December 21st in the morning and drove to Toledo, OH.  We stopped in Lake Forrest, IL for lunch and another break in OH.  We unfortunately had bad rain in IL, IN and until we stopped in OH.  It was hard to see, especially when there are tons of semis on the main highway.  Then it started getting dark out.  By then I wanted to check into a hotel, but there ...
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