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 15, 2013 · 5 comments
in Faith, Family, Holidays, Infertility, Inspiration, Loss, Mother's Day, Pregnancy Loss, Secondary Infertility, Sensativity
One of my newer blogging friends Em, from Teach Me to Braid, shared a beautiful and moving post earlier this month, called Church, about her efforts to raise awareness at her church about members who might find holidays such as Mother’s and Father’s Day difficult, as well as attending baptisms/dedications, because they are struggling with [...]
by Kathy on May 14, 2013 · 8 comments
in Blog Hops, Cancer, Family, Friends, Game Changers, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Odds, Parenting, Relationships, Time Warp Tuesdays
Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the 31st installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are [...]
In recent days a lot of my friends and family members on Facebook have been changing their profile pictures to a favorite photo of their mothers. So tonight I decided to jump on the bandwagon and share an old favorite photo of my sister and me with our mom, when I was around the age [...]
by Kathy on May 9, 2013 · 14 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. [...]
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, [...]