As I have shared here over the past few months, mostly through my Winter and Spring Shed Series, I have dealt with some challenging physical problems. From weekly pelvic floor physical therapy (PT) sessions to try to address painful muscle spasms in my urethra and vagina (which I used to think were chronic urinary tract infections) to [...]
by Kathy on May 16, 2013 · 2 comments
in Caring Connection, Coping, Family, Friends, Healing, Inspiration, Loss, Molly, Running, Team Caring Connection
The shirts are here! I picked up over 100 of them yesterday afternoon from Mt. Greenwood Embroidery, where they were screen printed, and love how they turned out! I am so grateful to Mt. Greenwood Embroidery and Running Excels for helping us to create our Team Caring Connection t-shirts and running shirts! The four shirts pictured above are [...]
by Kathy on May 3, 2013 · 3 comments
in Communication, Coping, Faith, Family, Friends, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life, Loss
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the tenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been seven months since we last did some Gatekeeping here, much too long for sure. I thought about it often, [...]
by Kathy on April 24, 2013 · 4 comments
in ALI Community, Coping, Decisions, Expectations, Family, Friends, Healing, Hope, ICSI, Infertility, Inspiration, IUI, IVF, Love, Memories, Odds, Parenting, Planning, RE, Relationships, Resolution, Secondary Infertility, Secondary Infertility Stories, Siblings, Sperm, TTC, Writing
For awhile I have thought it would be interesting and helpful, especially for those still in the trenches who want more children, to profile other families who have dealt with secondary infertility. Many of these people I got to know during our journey through secondary infertility (via community forums and/or blogs). Being able to share [...]
by Kathy on April 22, 2013 · 7 comments
in Coping, Family, Friends, Hope, Infertility, Journey, Loss, Miscarriage, NIAW, Odds, Parenting, Pregnancy Loss, Relationships, Secondary Infertility
“You are not a real mom until you have two kids.” Who says that? Especially to a person who is struggling to have another child! Sadly I know someone who did and they said it to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It’s National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW) and once again I am taking this opportunity to share about [...]
by Kathy on April 19, 2013 · 3 comments
in Abby, Accountability, Birthdays, Blog Hops, Bob, Change, Coping, Exercise, Faith, Family, Food, Friends, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Our Home, Running, Sean, Siblings, Spring Shed, Writing
Welcome to the fifth check-in for the Spring Shed! It has been a surreal and bittersweet week for our country and my family personally. From the bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday and accompanying manhunt over the past 24 hours to the fifth anniversary of the birth and death of our baby girl Molly, [...]