Bereaved and Blessed

Time Warp Tuesday: Turnaround

January 17, 2012

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the fourteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the […]

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Gatekeeping (1st Edition)

January 14, 2012

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? 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 done to change the outcome of their lives, but it is […]

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Are You There Readers? It’s Me, Kathy!

January 13, 2012

The the word on blog street is that it’s International Blog Delurking Week (IBDW). So I am jumping on the bandwagon and inviting you to let me know that you are here. As Mel explains in her blog post about IBDW: It is fairly easy. Leave a comment in the comment section below admitting that you’re here. You can […]

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BlogHer Book Club: Why Women Need Fat

January 12, 2012

I’ll admit it, the main reason I signed up to read and review Why Women Need Fat by Dr. William D. Lassek and Dr. Steven J.C. Gaulin, my fifth BlogHer Book Club selection, was because of a line in a summary about it which said something about “why those last five pounds seem impossible to […]

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Sibling Snippets: Exclamations

January 10, 2012

These are some recent exclamations that our children have said that I found sweet and amusing: “Abby is so imaginative!” ~ Sean After observing his younger sister pretend playing with her toy kitchen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “I wasn’t expecting that!” ~ Abby After I picked her up and took her out of the Pack -n- Play she […]