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Time Warp Tuesday: Luck

by Kathy on March 12, 2013 · 9 comments

in Abby, Blog Hops, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Luck, Molly, Odds, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Loss, Sean, Secondary Infertility, Time Warp Tuesdays, Writing

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-ninth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here […]

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38 Special

by Kathy on March 6, 2013 · 21 comments

in Abby, Balance, Birthdays, Blessed, Bob, Coping, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Happiness, Life, Love, Marriage, Molly, Peace, Relationships, Sean, Song Lyrics

It’s a clever band name and the number of years I am celebrating on this earth today, my 38th birthday! “Special K” is also a nickname that an old friend gave me 20 years ago. In many ways I am exactly where I imagined and hoped I would be at this age and stage of […]

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What Matters

by Kathy on February 25, 2013 · 3 comments

in Inspiration, Life, Movies, Quotes

I finally got around to skimming through the Oscars on my DVR tonight, since I pretty much slept through it on my couch last night (after an awesome and exhausting retreat weekend) and loved this quote by Ben Affleck at the end of his Best Picture (for Argo) acceptance speech: “You have to work harder […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Heart

by Kathy on February 12, 2013 · 5 comments

in Background, Blog Hops, Camp Echo, Coping, Exercise, Expectations, Family, Gratitude, Grief, Happiness, Journey, Life, Memories, Peace, Summer Camp, The Past, Time Warp Tuesdays, Vacations

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-eighth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here […]

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Regrets and the Auto Show

by Kathy on February 6, 2013 · 1 comment

in Background, Before I Blogged, Bereavement, Bob, Chicago, Coping, Decisions, Faith, Family, Healing, Hope, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Peace, Relationships, Sadness, Signs, Social Media, The Past, Time, Vacations

This Friday Bob and I will be attending the Media Preview Day at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show. Though I just found out today from my Chicagonista friend/Editor MJ Tam that, as a blogger, I could have applied for a media pass, we actually got our tickets through a Groupon deal. Our visit will be timely, as last […]

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Thank You Dr. Lederer

by Kathy on January 20, 2013 · 17 comments

in Bereavement, Gratitude, Hope, Infertility, Life, Loss, Memories, Molly, RE, Sadness

Today I received a letter in the mail from the Fertility Centers of Illinois, the clinic that we worked with during our Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) cycles in 2007. I was surprised to see the return address and joked with Bob as to what it might be about. As I slid the two page letter […]

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