by Kathy on March 13, 2012 · 7 comments
in Bereavement, Blessed, Blog Hops, Coping, Faith, Friends, Hope, Infertility, Inspiration, Loss, Memories, Molly, Pain, Peace, Relationships, The Future, Time, Time Warp Tuesdays
Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the seventeenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday and my first here at Bereaved and Blessed! 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 […]
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by Kathy on March 9, 2012 · 23 comments
in Abby, Bereavement, Blessed, Chicago, Coping, Family, Gratitude, Grief, Inspiration, Journey, Life, Loss, Quotes, Sean, Waiting
Last week I didn’t know what that meant. Today I do, along with many others in our Beverly neighborhood who are honoring the life and memory of Marine Corporal Conner Lowry. Semper Fi, short for Semper Fidelis, is latin for Always Faithful. The Marine Corps uses it as their motto and their inspiration as they serve and […]
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For the second time in two weeks I will likely be diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) later this morning at my primary care physician’s office. I am prone to them. I take cranberry pills every day (because I don’t care for cranberry juice), try to avoid the things that tend to cause them […]
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by Kathy on March 6, 2012 · 18 comments
in Abby, Balance, Birthdays, Bob, Change, Coping, Expectations, Family, Friends, Healing, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Our Home, Peace, Relationships, Sean, The Future, Time, Transitions, Writing
Today I am 37. It feels surreal for me to reflect on my journey to this age. I have been out of high school now for almost 19 years. This year I will have been married for 12 years and a mother for 9 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since I turned 36 my life has had many […]
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by Kathy on March 6, 2012 · 0 comments
in Abby, BlogHer, Bob, Coping, Family, Gratitude, Happiness, Healing, Hope, Infertility, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Optimism, Quotes, Relationships, The Future
This week I am participating for the first time in BlogHer and Procter & Gamble’s Life Well Lived editorial program as part of a panel of bloggers. The category our panel writes about is “Getting Happy” and we were asked to answer this question: How do you teach the children in your life happiness? I […]
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by Kathy on February 29, 2012 · 47 comments
in Abby, Background, Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Bob, Books, Coping, Dreams, Ectopic, Exercise, Faith, Family, FET, Happiness, Healing, Infertility, Inspiration, IUI, IVF, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Miscarriage, Molly, Odds, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Loss, Sean, Transitions, TTC, Writing
Welcome to Bereaved and Blessed! If you are here for the first time you can read about me and my blog here. You can also check out the other tabs above the header (which I designed all by myself) to find out more about me, my new blog and other places I write. There are also pages […]
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