by Kathy on May 15, 2013 · 6 comments
in Faith, Family, Holidays, Infertility, Inspiration, Loss, Mother's Day, Pregnancy Loss, Secondary Infertility, Sensativity
One of my newer blogging friends Em, from Teach Me to Braid, shared a beautiful and moving post earlier this month, called Church, about her efforts to raise awareness at her church about members who might find holidays such as Mother’s and Father’s Day difficult, as well as attending baptisms/dedications, because they are struggling with […]
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by Kathy on May 9, 2013 · 15 comments
in Adoption, ALI Community, Background, Blog Hops, Book Tours, Books, Communication, Decisions, Expectations, Family, Inspiration, Journey, Loss, Love, Parenting, Planning, Relationships, Sensativity
Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption Book Tour! This is my fifth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time and The Sound of Hope. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. […]
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by Kathy on May 3, 2013 · 5 comments
in Communication, Coping, Faith, Family, Friends, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life, Loss, LTYM, Suicide Prevention
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the tenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been seven months since we last did some Gatekeeping here, much too long for sure. I thought about it often, […]
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It’s Thursday, which means my latest post is up over at The Today Voice. I appreciate your support and feedback about my posts and am especially grateful to those who have taken time to comment on my posts over there and share your thoughts on the weekly prompts. If you are not familiar with The Today Voice […]
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by Kathy on April 24, 2013 · 11 comments
in ALI Community, Coping, Decisions, Expectations, Family, Friends, Healing, Hope, ICSI, Infertility, Inspiration, IUI, IVF, Love, Memories, Odds, Parenting, Planning, RE, Relationships, Resolution, Secondary Infertility, Secondary Infertility Stories, Siblings, Sperm, TTC, Writing
For awhile I have thought it would be interesting and helpful, especially for those still in the trenches who want more children, to profile other families who have dealt with secondary infertility. Many of these people I got to know during our journey through secondary infertility (via community forums and/or blogs). Being able to share […]
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by Kathy on April 19, 2013 · 3 comments
in Abby, Accountability, Birthdays, Blog Hops, Bob, Change, Coping, Exercise, Faith, Family, Food, Friends, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Our Home, Running, Sean, Siblings, Spring Shed, Writing
Welcome to the fifth check-in for the Spring Shed! It has been a surreal and bittersweet week for our country and my family personally. From the bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday and accompanying manhunt over the past 24 hours to the fifth anniversary of the birth and death of our baby girl Molly, […]
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