Siblings

Happy 5th Heavenly Birthday Molly Marie! How did we get here? How is it possible that five years have come and gone since you were born and died? Not a day goes by that I don’t still think about you and wonder how you are doing in Heaven. I have to believe there is a Heaven […]

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Five-Year Olds

by Kathy on April 9, 2013 · 4 comments

in Abby, Birthdays, Grief, Loss, Love, Milestones, Molly, Siblings

Tonight after Abby’s dance class (for three-year olds) I heard one of her classmate’s care givers tell some other people that her classmate’s older sister (who was there) just celebrated her fifth birthday yesterday and what a big girl she is now. It was so bittersweet for me to think about Abby’s older sister Molly […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Sound of Hope Book Tour! This is my fourth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch and A Gift of Time. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. On a given date the […]

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I am excited to share about my second Collective Bias® Social Fabric® shop! I had such a fun and interesting experience with my first one and appreciate the feedback I received on that post. This time I had the opportunity to shop for clothing for my kids from Cookie’s Kids website.

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-sixth 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 […]

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A friend who lost one of her twins one year ago today (the day after she was born) introduced me to this awesome quote about loss and what remains: “The tide recedes but leaves behind bright seashells on the sand, The sun goes down, but gentle warmth still lingers on the land, The music stops, […]

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