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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by Kathy on April 24, 2013 · 11 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 […]
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by Kathy on March 13, 2013 · 7 comments
in Blessed, Change, Expectations, Faith, Game Changers, Hope, Optimism, Peace, Poetry, The Future
When Abby and I were driving home this morning from Beverly Bodyworks, where I taught a Step Aerobics class and she played in the childcare room with friends, I was listening to CNN on XM Radio and heard that the smoke was due within 45 minutes to an hour from the last vote of the […]
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by Kathy on February 12, 2013 · 5 comments
in Background, Blog Hops, Camp Echo, Coping, Exercise, Expectations, Family, Gratitude, Grief, Happiness, Journey, Life, Memories, Peace, Summer Camp, The Past, Time Warp Tuesdays, Vacations
Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-eighth 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 here […]
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by Kathy on January 11, 2013 · 9 comments
in Abby, Balance, Blog Hops, Bob, Change, Exercise, Expectations, Faith, Family, Food, Life, Loss, Optimism, Organization, Our Home, Resolutions, Sean, Winter Shed, Writing
Welcome to the first Friday check-in for the Winter Shed! Here is the back story about this support group/blog hop for those trying to be accountable for the positive changes we intend to make in our lives in 2013. Whether you are trying to shed weight, find more balance or let go of something else that is dragging […]
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by Kathy on January 10, 2013 · 5 comments
in Accountability, BHBC, BlogHer, Books, Change, Decisions, Expectations, Game Changers, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Planning, Reality, Resolutions, Reviews
The irony is not lost on me that I am getting this review posted, for a book about willpower, just under the wire on the day it is due to go up. Clearly this was a book that I could benefit from reading and I was not disappointed. Ever since I began The Willpower Instinct: How […]
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