Adoption

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

by Kathy on May 9, 2013 · 15 comments

in Adoption, ALI Community, Background, Blog Hops, Book Tours, Books, Communication, Decisions, Expectations, Family, Inspiration, Journey, Loss, Love, Parenting, Planning, Relationships, Sensativity

Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption Book Tour! This is my fifth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time and The Sound of Hope. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. […]

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The Sound of Hope

by Kathy on April 2, 2013 · 15 comments

in Addiction, Adoption, Blog Hops, Book Tours, Books, Communication, Family, Friends, Journey, Life, Siblings

Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Sound of Hope Book Tour! This is my fourth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch and A Gift of Time. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. On a given date the […]

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Love at First Skype

by Kathy on July 24, 2012 · 11 comments

in Adoption, Family, Love, NaBloPoMo, Siblings

Tonight Bob, Sean, Abby and I got to Skype with my sister Meg and her new baby boy Dean! As I mentioned in these posts, it has been an exciting week for our family since we found out about this new addition. We hoped and prayed that things would work out so that Meg, our brother-in-law Bill and […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Blogging

by Kathy on December 13, 2011 · 4 comments

in Adoption, Blog Hops, Infertility, Loss, Time Warp Tuesdays, Writing

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the eleventh installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link up your […]

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Feeling Helpless, But Not Hopeless (Updated)

by Kathy on December 3, 2011 · 8 comments

in Adoption, Background, Coping, Decisions, Family, Godparents, Grief, Hope, Love, Molly, Pain, Peace, The Future

*I’ve added an update at the end of this post.* This week I have gotten a taste of what it feels like to be on “the other side.” The other side being a place where loved ones wait for news and do their best to show their love and support for those they care deeply […]

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Bereavement & Social Media

by Kathy on August 17, 2011 · 9 comments

in Adoption, Background, Bereavement, Family, Grief, Inspiration, Loss, Love, Quotes, Social Media

When I first heard that my friend Lori, from Write Mind Open Heart, was going to be “live tweeting” the funeral of the husband of fellow blogger Melissa, from Full Circle, I had mixed feelings. Though I knew that Lori had gotten Melissa’s permission and blessing to do so, my initial reaction was cynical and I questioned if […]

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