Family

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the sixteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I currently host on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month here is the background of how and why I […]

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It was a beautiful and sunny day here in Chicago and if it weren’t for my fighting a bad cold, I likely would not have spent most of it resting on the couch in front of our TV. I had intended to record Whitney Houston’s funeral service on DVR, but ended up watching about half of the […]

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Top of the mornin’ to ya! It’s that time of year when we drink Shamrock Shakes, eat Irish Soda Bread and write rhymes for Lori’s Limerick Chick Contest! I was honored to be the 2011 LimChick Winner last year with my entry about our Stirrup Queen Mel’s book Life from Scratch. Many thanks to all who voted for […]

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What God Wants

by Kathy on February 4, 2012 · 8 comments

in Faith, Family, Infertility, Loss, Peace

Recently a friend was sharing a story about her life and family. She mentioned that when she was younger she never imagined getting married and having kids, let alone four of them. At some point she said that she figures its “what God wanted” for her and that is how she ended up where she […]

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I wrote this post a few months ago, but wasn’t ready to share it until now. I think this partly because when I wrote it I believed what I was saying whole-heartedly. And then a little while later I didn’t. Re-reading this periodically became a gage for me to see where I stood on the […]

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It’s the fourth Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from January with Lori from Write Mind Open Heart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last month one of my cousins died. We were close in age. Sadly, I never got to meet her in person. But in many ways I have been mourning the […]

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