Bereaved and Blessed

Apart at the Seams

September 8, 2014

Greetings and welcome to this stop on the Apart at the Seams Book Tour! This is my seventh time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time, The Sound of Hope, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, and Measure of Love. For those of you not familiar with […]

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I’m Here

September 7, 2014

We drove by on our way to dinner and noticed their front door was open. I asked Bob if he minded if we stopped by quickly to say, “hello.” I hadn’t seen them since the day of her funeral (which I ended up giving a eulogy at). I hopped out and rang the door bell. […]

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Wordless Wednesday: Our Abby Holding Our Molly Bear

September 3, 2014

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Ice Bucket Challenge & Raising Awareness

August 15, 2014

Earlier this week one of my friends tagged me in a post on Facebook. In the post she shared a video of dumping a bucket of water over her head in the name of raising awareness for ALS. She then challenged me, along with two others, to do the same within 24 hours or make […]

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Deep River Waterpark, Family Fun & Giveaway

August 13, 2014

Are you looking for a fun place to go, for a last hurrah of the summer, with your family? Last Friday, my family and I got to visit “Illinana’s Largest Waterpark,” Deep River Waterpark, in Merrillville, Indiana. We had been wanting to go to a waterpark this summer and heard great things about this one.

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Here and There

August 12, 2014

The older I get, the more people I care about who die, the more the balance seems to be shifting from most of my heart and mind being in this world to more of it being in the afterlife. My loved ones and I have experienced a lot of loss this summer. I get that […]