Bereaved and Blessed

A (belated) Special and Inclusive Mother’s Day Blessing

May 15, 2013

One of my newer blogging friends Em, from Teach Me to Braid, shared a beautiful and moving post earlier this month, called Church, about her efforts to raise awareness at her church about members who might find holidays such as Mother’s and Father’s Day difficult, as well as attending baptisms/dedications, because they are struggling with […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Cancer

May 14, 2013

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the 31st 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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Celebrating and Remembering this Mother’s Day

May 11, 2013

In recent days a lot of my friends and family members on Facebook have been changing their profile pictures to a favorite photo of their mothers. So tonight I decided to jump on the bandwagon and share an old favorite photo of my sister and me with our mom, when I was around the age […]

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Spring Shed: Week Eight

May 10, 2013

Welcome to the eighth check-in for the Spring Shed! Here is the back story about this support group/blog hop for those trying to be accountable for the positive changes we are making in our lives in 2013. After ten weeks of doing the Winter Shed, we moved on to this Spring Shed. Whether you are trying to shed […]

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The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

May 9, 2013

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

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Gatekeeping (10th Edition)

May 3, 2013

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the tenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been seven months since we last did some Gatekeeping here, much too long for sure. I thought about it often, […]