by Kathy on October 2, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Balance, Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Change, Communication, Coping, Courage, Decisions, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Grief, Happiness, Life, Loss, Love, Luck, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Music, Pain, Parenting, Priorities, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, School, Sean, Siblings, Theater, Time, Travel, Vacations
I intended to start this with a line from a song that I love, called Jack & Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp. It’s about holding on to “16 as long as you can, (because) changes come around real soon (that) make us women and men.” I was going to write about how magical this time […]
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by Kathy on August 14, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Anxiety, breast care, Cancer, Coping, Courage, Cysts, Expectations, Healing, Hope, Life, Memories, Odds, Optimism, Pain, Planning, Time, Vacations
I came across this edited version of a page from a children’s story yesterday (via Parenting Works). I love the idea that we can allow ourselves to feel more than one emotion at the same time. It’s okay to cry. We can feel sad and brave. Those two emotions (as well as any others) are […]
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by Kathy on August 6, 2019 · 4 comments
in Anticipation, Anxiety, breast care, Cancer, Coping, Cysts, Expectations, Hope, Memories, Odds, Reality, Travel, Ultrasounds, Vacations, Waiting, Writing
I was supposed to return in 6 months. You’d think, as someone who struggles with anxiety, I’d have been counting down the days to get my right breast rechecked, to see how what they found in December, a small mostly fluid filled cyst with a bit of solid, that had a “high probability of being […]
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by Kathy on June 17, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Background, Birthdays, Blogging, Change, Communication, Family, Friends, London Semester Journals, Loss, Memories, Mindfullness, Music, Parenting, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, School, Siblings, Social Media, The Past, Time, Travel, Vacations, Writing
Sunday, 3-10-96 7:45 PM Somewhere btw. Galway & Dublin, Ireland 1:45 PM E-Town Well, I must be on a roll with this here journal writing thing, for after a little over 2 months abroad I am finished with the Mary Englebreit one that Erin Sadler so thoughtfully gave me for an X-mas/going away gift! And […]
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by Kathy on April 17, 2019 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Books, Change, Coping, Family, Grief, Healing, Hope, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Neonatal Death, Siblings, The 17th, Time, Vacations
Happy 11th Heavenly Birthday, Molly Marie! Here we are again… Celebrating you, forever our baby girl, wondering what might’ve been, and making the best of what is. Today it’s been 11 (my lucky number) years since I held you. Your death certainly didn’t make me feel very lucky at the time, though I was/am forever […]
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by Kathy on February 15, 2019 · 1 comment
in Abby, Anticipation, Background, Bereavement, Books, Coping, Expectations, Forgiveness, Friends, Grief, Inspiration, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Quotes, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sean, The Future, The Past, Time, Travel, Vacations
I started over with Book 1 in early November 2018, after not getting past Book 3 in early 2012, when Sean read all 7. Abby had started reading them a bit before then and was already on Book 3. I caught up quickly and we’ve tried to keep pace with each other ever since, though […]
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