Bereaved and Blessed

Welcome March ICLWers!

March 22, 2012

If you are visiting here for the first time, thank you for stopping by! If you have been to my blog before, thank you for returning! This is my first International Comment Leaving Week here at my new blog Bereaved and Blessed (formerly known as Four of a Kind)! However I have been blogging since April […]

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Gatekeeping (3rd Edition)

March 19, 2012

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the third edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. I was washing dishes this afternoon and listening to my iPod on shuffle mode. Gatekeepers by Meg Hutchinson came on […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Faith

March 13, 2012

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the seventeenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday and my first here at Bereaved and Blessed! 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 […]

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Semper Fi

March 9, 2012

Last week I didn’t know what that meant. Today I do, along with many others in our Beverly neighborhood who are honoring the life and memory of Marine Corporal Conner Lowry. Semper Fi, short for Semper Fidelis, is latin for Always Faithful. The Marine Corps uses it as their motto and their inspiration as they serve and […]

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Prone to…

March 8, 2012

For the second time in two weeks I will likely be diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) later this morning at my primary care physician’s office. I am prone to them. I take cranberry pills every day (because I don’t care for cranberry juice), try to avoid the things that tend to cause them […]

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Yes We Did!!!

March 7, 2012

Voting has ended and look who/what ended up at #22!!! You can click on the Circle of Moms logo to the right to see the entire list. Thank you sooooooo much to everyone who voted and supported me and my blog over the past few days!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ Your kind words, encouragement and “thumbs […]