Thanksgiving is…

November 24, 2011

watching our children walk hand and hand, knowing how blessed and lucky we are. Photo credit: early bird photography and fine art

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We aren’t the only ones…

November 23, 2011

who still remember. It means so much to me and other bereaved parents to know that, especially as more and more time passes since the deaths of our children. Last night Bob and I were watching the Chicago evening news when we happened to see an amusing story about a couple that got a flat […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Thanksgiving

November 22, 2011

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the ninth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! Today is also the twenty-second day of NaBloPoMo, so if you found your way here from the Blogroll (I’m #313 on the list of 2,216) or the open thread, a warm welcome to […]

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Welcome November ICLWers & NaBloPoMoers!

November 21, 2011

If you are visiting my blog for the first time, thank you for stopping by! If you have been here before, thank you for returning! I have been blogging here at Four of a Kind (formerly Three of a Kind Working on a Full House…) for 4 1/2 years now. My family and I dealt […]

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Disney World (Then and Now)

November 20, 2011

THEN — My dad, my sister, me and my mom in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (July 1985): NOW — Me, Abby, Bob and Sean in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (November 2011): 26 years after I first visited Disney World with my parents and sister I got to return there to experience […]

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My Happy Place

November 19, 2011

Today I had one of those days, the kind where you don’t know whether to laugh or cry at times and to be honest I did some of both. When this happens there are a variety of ways that I use to process my experience and to cope. As evidence here on my blog, one […]

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