by Kathy on October 4, 2011 · 11 comments
in Abby, ALI Community, Blog Hops, Family, Fear, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Memories, Quotes, The Future, Time, Time Warp Tuesdays
Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the second installment of my new blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! In case you missed my original post about this, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link […]
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by Kathy on August 17, 2011 · 9 comments
in Adoption, Background, Bereavement, Family, Grief, Inspiration, Loss, Love, Quotes, Social Media
When I first heard that my friend Lori, from Write Mind Open Heart, was going to be “live tweeting” the funeral of the husband of fellow blogger Melissa, from Full Circle, I had mixed feelings. Though I knew that Lori had gotten Melissa’s permission and blessing to do so, my initial reaction was cynical and I questioned if […]
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by Kathy on July 23, 2011 · 6 comments
in Abby, Background, Bob, Change, Family, Inspiration, Love, Memories, Our Home, Quotes, Sean, The Future, Transitions
“Like my mama says, ‘endings are important,’ she always told me that, and I just really feel like we are ending really strong with this.” ~ Jeremy Piven (who plays Agent Ari Gold) on A Final Farewell to Entourage which aired on HBO this weekend Tomorrow night the eighth and last season of one of Bob […]
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For years they have been on a shelf in Sean and Abby’s bedroom closet. Today I managed to fit most of our mementos related to our baby girl Molly into this box. I find that very bittersweet, that a life could be so short that you can fit all those special things into just one […]
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by Kathy on June 14, 2011 · 8 comments
in Abby, Background, Bereavement, Bob, CHD, Family, Healing, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Pain, Peace, Quotes, Sean, Time
Sometime over the past few weeks I became aware of an awesome project that Angie from Still Life with Circles had started on her blog. She began by writing a very thoughtful and moving post about where she is at in her grief and her life right now, two years, five months and counting since […]
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by Kathy on May 26, 2011 · 6 comments
in Abby, Bob, Change, Family, Fear, Hope, Inspiration, Molly, Peace, Quotes, Sean, The Future, Transitions
My friend Loribeth at The Road Less Traveled has this wonderful quote listed on the sidebar of her blog: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking […]
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