by Kathy on May 9, 2014 · 4 comments
in Balance, Bob, Communication, Coping, Courage, Decisions, Exercise, Family, Frustration, Game Changers, Hope, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Marriage, Mental Health, Parenting, Reality, Relationships, Sensativity
One of my favorite movies, The Family Man, a modern-day It’s a Wonderful Life, gives the main character a glimpse if what his life would be like if he was married to his college sweetheart, with kids, living in a house in New Jersey, verses he “real” life as a single, wealthy business man, who lives […]
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by Kathy on April 30, 2014 · 2 comments
in Accountability, Background, Balance, Bob, Change, Decisions, Exercise, Game Changers, Inspiration, Life
Last year I was determined to get/stay in shape and shed weight. I even began and maintained, through July, a regular series/blog hop here called the Winter Shed, followed by the Spring Shed and eventually, the Summer Shed. It really helped me to be accountable to myself and the other women who participated. I shed […]
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by Kathy on April 12, 2014 · 11 comments
in Accountability, Background, Bereavement, Birthdays, Change, Coping, Decisions, Family, Loss, Memories, Molly, Planning
For the past six years, on Molly’s Heavenly Birthday in April and at our perinatal bereavement support group’s Walk to Remember in October, our family has participated in beautiful and therapeutic balloon releases in honor and memory of Molly, Babies Benson and other babies who left this world too soon. In the early years all I knew […]
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by Kathy on February 13, 2014 · 18 comments
in Abby, Background, Bereavement, Blessed, Bob, CRHP, Decisions, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Parenting, Pregnancy, Sean, Secondary Infertility, The Past, Time
On the Eve of Valentine’s Day 2008, Bob and I went to one of our bi-weekly Wednesday perinatal echocardiograms to find out how our baby girl Molly was doing. Her cardiologist, Dr. Cuneo, shared with us that our daughter’s heart had begun to fail. She told us that if we wanted to take the aggressive route […]
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I am excited to be attending to BlogHer’14 this July in San Jose, CA! I have already bought my ticket to the conference, reserved a hotel room and booked airfare. This will be my third BlogHer annual and I look forward to what will make this year’s experience unique and wonderful in its own way. I […]
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by Kathy on January 28, 2014 · 6 comments
in Anticipation, Books, Courage, Decisions, Family, Loss, Love, Parenting, Relationships, Reviews, Sean
In recent weeks my thoughts and daydreams have been filled with fictional characters, including Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne and Peeta Mellark. I was reading The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins and often felt like I was part of their world, living in Panem, and fighting against the leaders of the Capitol for freedom and […]
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