Last night Bob and I finally saw the Oscar winning movie The King’s Speech. We enjoyed the movie, especially in light of all the recent news coverage of the Royal Wedding last week. We finished watching the movie on a DVD a little after 10:00 p.m. (CST) For this reason we did not have a regular […]
by Kathy on May 1, 2011 · 3 comments
in Abby, Bob, Family, Healing, Holidays, Hope, Inspiration, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Sean
To all those who have lost a baby, at any stage of life and development (including miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death), my thoughts and prayers go out to you, especially on this International Babylost Mothers Day. According to Carly Dudley, founder of International Babylost Mothers Day (IBMD) and Names in the Sand: IBMD recognizes babylost women all over […]
by Kathy on April 26, 2011 · 8 comments
in Abby, ALI Community, Background, Bob, Family, Fear, Healing, Hope, Infertility, Loss, Molly, NIAW, Pain, Quotes, Secondary Infertility, The Future
It’s National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW) April 24 – 30 and today I am participating in the “Bust an Infertility Myth Blog Challenge.” I have chosen to “Bust a Myth” about Secondary Infertility, which my family and I dealt with for over five years. There is one secondary infertility myth listed on Resolve’s list of […]
by Kathy on April 25, 2011 · 6 comments
in Abby, ALI Community, Bob, Change, Family, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Loss, Perfect Moments, Sean, Time
Good morning! After reading and commenting on most of last week’s Perfect Moment Monday blog entries, I was struck by how a number of them seemed to have a common theme. It was a theme that Perfect Moment Monday founder/facilitator Lori at Write Mind Open Heart blogged about and so aptly used to title her post, “The Promised […]
Last week I attended a meeting for a women’s retreat planning team that I am serving on at our parish. The retreat will be this fall and I am really looking forward to both the experience of going through formation with my fellow team members and the opportunity to “give” the retreat this fall to […]
Sometimes when someone dies we don’t have the opportunity to say goodbye before they go. That can add another layer to our grief when we don’t feel that sense of peace and closure. I mentioned at the end of this post last week that one of my old and very dear childhood friend’s died recently. Since […]