Today is the second of two important days in my church community and the worldwide Catholic church. Yesterday was All Saints Day (always celebrated on November 1) and today is All Souls Day (always observed on November 2). I don’t make it to mass every year on these two Holy Days, but I usually at least try to take […]
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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the sixth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! Today is also the first day of NaBloPoMo, so if you found your way here from the Blogroll (I’m #327 on the list of over 900 and counting now), a warm welcome […]
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On this Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day I send healing thoughts and prayers to all those who have lost babies. As I shared in this recent post about song lyrics, I know that music plays a significant role in so many of our lives. During happy moments and milestones we celebrate good times by listening to, singing along with […]
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Two years ago when I was in the home stretch of my pregnancy with our daughter and “rainbow baby” Abigail Grace, one of our OB’s told us that “September 17th (was) going to be a happy day!” That became my mantra in the weeks leading up to Abby’s birth, as I was very nervous and scared that somehow […]
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I am not sure how I didn’t know about or come across this website before today. I have been aware of Carly Marie’s breathtaking Names in the Sand ministry, in honor and memory of her son Christian, since soon after she began it 2008. It meant the world to me when Carly wrote our daughter Molly’s name in the […]
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One of my cousins, who is a psychologist, recently sent me an email with the link to an ABC News article that she had received from the American Psychological Association (APA). The article was about a study that was done looking at the increased health risks to parents who have survived the death of one or more of […]
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