The First Year: An Administrative Tracker for Widows and Widowers

The first weeks after losing a spouse are full of urgent tasks. The months that follow bring a different kind of workload: renaming accounts, adjusting a budget built for two incomes, remembering tasks that used to belong to someone else. It's steady, quiet weight that can stretch across an entire year.

This tracker spans that full year: a monthly bill and income adjustment tracker, an account renaming and transfer tracker, an annual task reminder calendar for things easy to forget the first time they come around solo, a support check-in log, and a milestone and anniversary planning sheet for dates that often arrive harder than expected.

A year is a long time to carry new responsibilities alone. This won't make the year shorter, but it can make each month a little more manageable.

This is an instant PDF download you can read on any device or print at home for easy reference, built to be referenced gradually across twelve months, not read in one sitting.

Part of the Hard Things Made Simple: Grief & Loss series.