by Kathy on October 2, 2016 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Birthdays, Blessed, Change, Chicago, Communication, Courage, Decisions, Dreams, Family, Friends, Happiness, Hope, Journey, Life, Love, Memories, Milestones, Parenting, Planning, Relationships, School, Sean, Siblings, The Future, The Past, Time, Transitions, Vacations
You. Are. A. Teenager. Holy Cow! And… The Cubs made the playoffs/are predicted to win the World Series! Two things I am not sure if I believed would ever happen… Okay, I knew, or should I say hoped, you’d see this day eventually, as much as you don’t care for the number 13. I just […]
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by Kathy on June 28, 2016 · 1 comment
in Bereavement, Communication, Coping, Courage, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Game Changers, Grief, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Music, Pain, Parenting, Peace, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sensativity, Song Lyrics, Theater, Transitions
Every now and then I find a song that touches my heart and soul so deeply that I cannot stop listening to it. Even less often I find a story or a soundtrack, in this case both, that has the same effect on me. This is Hamilton. It’s only been about a week since I starting […]
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by Kathy on May 17, 2016 · 2 comments
in Accountability, Change, Communication, Courage, Decisions, Game Changers, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Optimism, Reality, Relationships, Sensativity, Social Media, The Future, The Past, Transitions, Writing
It started with watching American Crime Story: The People Vs. OJ Simpson. The main focus was clearly meant to be on OJ’s innocence or lack there of, as well as racism and police misconduct. However, I kept coming back to the story of how Marcia Clark and Nicole Brown Simpson were portrayed and vilified in […]
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by Kathy on March 18, 2016 · 3 comments
in Anticipation, breast care, Coping, Courage, Cysts, Hope, Life, Optimism, Reality, Time, Waiting
I got the call for my breast surgery (lumpectomy/wide excision) on Monday. It is scheduled to begin at 7:00 a.m. and we need to be there at 5:30 a.m. Excited that I won’t have to wait too long, with fasting after midnight. And being that Bob and I usually get up at 5:00 a.m. to […]
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by Kathy on February 29, 2016 · 0 comments
in Abby, Background, Blogging, Bob, Cancer, Change, Dreams, Expectations, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Hope, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Our Home, Sean, The Future, The Past, Time, Writing
Today is my eleventh Leap Day, which happens to be my lucky number. On my tenth, in 2012, I took a Leap of Faith, I changed the name of my blog, from Four of a Kind to Bereaved and Blessed, and moved it from Blogger to Self-Hosted WordPress, with this/my own URL. We had lived […]
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by Kathy on February 17, 2016 · 2 comments
in Anticipation, Anxiety, Background, Beauty, breast care, Change, Comic Relief, Coping, Cysts, Diversions, Expectations, Fear, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Life, Neonatal Death, Pain, Pregnancy Loss, Secondary Infertility, Waiting
There’s nothing like a health scare to get you thinking about and looking at life, especially your own body, differently. That was certainly my experience during the five years we struggled with secondary infertility, pregnancy loss, and neonatal death. I often found myself questioning our circumstances. Why me? Why us? Why now? Why isn’t my […]
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