by Kathy on July 8, 2012 · 13 comments
in Abby, Bob, Coping, Exercise, Family, Friends, Happiness, Holidays, NaBloPoMo, Sean, Vacations
Awhile back I shared about some of the “places” I go when I need a vacation (sometimes physically and more often mentally). Over the past week I got to spend time with my family in a magical place in Michigan that holds many special childhood memories for my husband. We rode bikes, jet skis, speed boats, […]
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by Kathy on July 1, 2012 · 14 comments
in Background, Before I Blogged, Camp Echo, Coping, Family, Friends, Happiness, Life, Memories, NaBloPoMo, Planning, Relationships, Song Lyrics, Summer Camp, Writing
It’s the first day of NaBloPoMo for July and the theme is Kids. One of the main reasons I signed up to participate this time around is that I really like the prompts that Melissa Ford came up with and am excited to write about many of them. Since we don’t get prompts for the weekend days (and I likely […]
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It’s the fourth Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from June with Lori from Write Mind Open Heart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It’s been over a week now since Sean has been out of school for the summer and Abby and I are loving having him home/around most of the day, everyday […]
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You’ve probably heard about this speech somewhere lately. It was on my radar, but I hadn’t taken the time to try to find and read it. Thankfully today it found its way to me through an old friend who shared a link to it on Facebook, which showed up in my news feed. It was just […]
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by Kathy on May 28, 2012 · 21 comments
in Background, Bereavement, Blog Hops, Exercise, Family, Friends, Grief, Happiness, Healing, Inspiration, Journey, Life, Loss, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Perfect Moments, Relationships, Running, Sean, Time
It’s the fourth Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from May with Lori from Write Mind Open Heart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last year on Memorial Day, after running in my 4th Ridge Run 5K Race in our Beverly neighborhood here in Chicago, I shared the story here of how I learned […]
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by Kathy on May 21, 2012 · 4 comments
in Abby, Blessed, Bob, Exercise, Expectations, Family, Food, Friends, Gatekeeping, Happiness, Life, Loss, Love, Our Home, Running, Sean, Suicide Prevention
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fifth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last week I received an email from a reader letting me know how much my Gatekeepers post has meant to […]
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