Family

Let’s do the Time Warp! Welcome to the first installment of my new blog hop called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! In case you missed my post about this last week, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link up […]

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After a summer hiatus, I was happy to hear that Lori from Write Mind Open Heart was bringing Perfect Moment Mondays back this Fall! The only difference from before is that sharing our “perfect moments” will happen on a monthly basis (4th Monday of each month), instead of weekly. I have known for a few weeks now that today […]

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Two years ago when I was in the home stretch of my pregnancy with our daughter and “rainbow baby” Abigail Grace, one of our OB’s told us that “September 17th (was) going to be a happy day!” That became my mantra in the weeks leading up to Abby’s birth, as I was very nervous and scared that somehow […]

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I am not sure how I didn’t know about or come across this website before today. I have been aware of Carly Marie’s breathtaking Names in the Sand ministry, in honor and memory of her son Christian, since soon after she began it 2008. It meant the world to me when Carly wrote our daughter Molly’s name in the […]

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One of my cousins, who is a psychologist, recently sent me an email with the link to an ABC News article that she had received from the American Psychological Association (APA). The article was about a study that was done looking at the increased health risks to parents who have survived the death of one or more of […]

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Slow Love by Dominique Browning is my third BlogHer Book Club read and my least favorite so far.  It is the first book club selection that I chose to read that I thought was just okay. There were some good insights and tidbits to chew on, but as another reviewer @yesnofilms commented on Twitter and I […]

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