Bereaved and Blessed

Inspiring Families

March 2, 2012

I not ashamed to admit that I nominated myself/my blog for the Circle of Moms Top 25 Moms with Inspiring Families – 2012 list. I do believe that my family is inspiring after all we have been through and what we try to do with our experience in effort to help others who are also on a […]

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Leap of Faith

February 29, 2012

Welcome to Bereaved and Blessed! If you are here for the first time you can read about me and my blog here. You can also check out the other tabs above the header (which I designed all by myself) to find out more about me, my new blog and other places I write. There are also pages […]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Family Dinner

February 27, 2012

It’s the fourth Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from February with Lori from Write Mind Open Heart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saturday evening we celebrated my birthday early with my side of the family by going out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants. We went at 4:30 p.m. because […]

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Gatekeeping (2nd Edition)

February 24, 2012

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the second edition of my new “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. In 2011 I lost two loved ones to suicide. I realize that there is likely nothing I could have […]

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Silver Linings & What’s Next

February 22, 2012

Earlier this month I ordered this picture (framed and matted) for the office in our new home, which Bob recently repainted a very nice color that found out about here. I took the photo in August 2008 when Bob and I were in Lake Tahoe for the marriage of two of our friends, one of […]

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A Sweet Treat for Mardi Gras

February 21, 2012

At some point this morning I realized that today was Fat Tuesday and decided I wanted to make a special and sweet treat for my family to enjoy tonight for dessert before we begin our forty day observance of Lent in our Catholic faith tradition on Ash Wednesday tomorrow. Over the weekend we were at a family […]