by Kathy on March 14, 2013 · 5 comments
in Bereavement, Coping, Family, Friends, Grief, Healing, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Pain, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sandy Hook
It’s been three months since 26 people, mostly children, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. As a bereaved mother I understand the significance these milestones, as we grieve the loss of our children and other loved ones. After our daughter Molly was born and died on April 17, 2008, […]
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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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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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by Kathy on February 9, 2013 · 6 comments
in Anxiety, Background, BlogHer, Chicago, Communication, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Hope, Journey, LTYM, Molly, Theater, Waiting, Writing
It’s the eve of my Listen to Your Mother (LTYM) Chicago audition. I feel excited and nervous. I imagine that I am not the only one in the Chicago area feeling this way tonight, as I know there are a lot of us preparing to put our words, our hearts and our souls out there for […]
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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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This one of the many questions we have been discussing with Sean and Abby since our first family pet, Nemo the Goldfish, died last Thursday. Nemo appeared to be sick or not himself for a few days. It was strange and sad to essentially watch him die and to have an ongoing conversation with our […]
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