| 6 Ways to Remember a Lost Loved One |
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Posted By:
Kate Kelty, Author, The Grace To Grieve on Mar 11, 2015
Eight years ago I held and kissed my daughter for the first and last time. After nearly nine months of carrying her, her birthday brought death and this death brought the deepest, darkest grief I've ever known. [...] |
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| Six Tested Recipes from our TakeThemAMeal.com Community |
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Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Mar 4, 2015
Last week, I posed this question to our TakeThemAMeal.com community - "What is your favorite meal to take to a friend?" Many of us cook and have favorite recipes, but not every recipe [...] |
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| What’s Your Favorite Meal to Take? |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Feb 18, 2015
There are so many reasons I love working on TakeThemAMeal.com each day. One of my favorite reasons is that [...] |
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| 6 Creative and Practical Ways to Help |
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Posted By:
Maureen Witmer, Director of Outreach, TakeThemAMeal.com on Feb 10, 2015
As I mentioned many times, we have been overwhelmed (in the best possible way!) by all the support we've received during this season of life. We can never write down all that [...] |
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| Introducing... Headbands of Hope |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Feb 2, 2015
Recently, we discovered a company that made our hearts leap! We are so thrilled with what this company is doing that we asked if we could [...] |
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| Applying Scruffy Hospitality to Taking Meals |
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Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Jan 27, 2015
I recently read a blog post challenging me to offer "scruffy hospitality". The author, Jack King, was making the point that [...] |
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| For You with Love.... From, Many |
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Posted By:
Kate Kelty, Author, The Grace To Grieve on Jan 19, 2015
I love food. I love every silky, creamy, crunchy, gooey, nurturing morsel. But perhaps I love food the most when my hands are not the ones that prepared it. We joke in my family that [...] |
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| Hospice, Ice Cream, and a Grandma's Love |
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Posted By:
Janelle Paris, Author, Comfy in the Kitchen on Jan 12, 2015
Every time we would go over to "Grandma Puppies" house, she would be certain to make the kids an ice cream cone [...] |
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| How to Support Someone Through Loss and Transition |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Jan 5, 2015
Trying to support a friend or family member while they are going through a major life transition can be a very helpless feeling. We don’t know what to do, what to say, or how to act. Are we being supportive enough? Are we too [...] |
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| Our 9 Favorite Gifts |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Dec 24, 2014
This year, our list of favorite gifts is going to look a little different. Even before my dad passed away on the day before Thanksgiving, I was planning to create a gift list of items that are meaningful and require only a small [...] |
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| The Gift of Freezer Meals |
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Posted By:
Maureen Witmer, Director of Outreach, TakeThemAMeal.com on Dec 15, 2014
It's been a year full of great challenges and great encouragement for my family. Facing the worries and fears of my infant son needing two heart surgeries, I had to [...] |
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| A letter to my children as they watch their grandfather face cancer |
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Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Dec 9, 2014
To my children, I know this past year has been hard for you. I'm so sorry that you had to learn the word CANCER and how it changes lives. You already miss what your grandfather was able to [...] |
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| Thanksgiving When Giving Thanks is Hard to Do |
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Posted By:
Kate Kelty, Author, The Grace To Grieve on Nov 24, 2014
It's getting dark earlier these days, darker and colder and the climate of my heart is just the same. November begins with the grief over the loss of a very dear friend's [...] |
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| Consider Taking Meals BEFORE... |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Nov 17, 2014
Today, I pulled a lasagna out of the freezer for dinner tonight. A friend brought over two lasagnas a few weeks ago because she knew our family was [...] |
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| Turkey Cookies for Thanksgiving |
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Posted By:
Janelle Paris, Author, Comfy in the Kitchen on Nov 12, 2014
Aren't these little turkeys cute? The best part... they're super easy and quick to make. Simply use pre-made sugar cookie dough and add a little [...] |
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| Our 3 Favorite Crock Pot Recipes |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Nov 3, 2014
The weather certainly cooled off this weekend and at our house, the grill goes away for the season and out come the crock pots. I know many people who [...] |
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| Don't Let This Happen To Your Meal - Our New Recipes and Features |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Oct 27, 2014
Did you know that we test and photograph every recipe in our TakeThemAMeal.com recipe section? These are recipes that transport easily and taste delicious, so that makes them perfect to [...] |
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| Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day |
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Posted By:
Kate Kelty, Author, The Grace To Grieve on Oct 15, 2014
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. And so to that end, today I want to honor our little ones. Today I want to exalt all of the [...] |
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| Loaded Baked Potato Soup |
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Posted By:
Janelle Paris, Author, Comfy in the Kitchen on Oct 13, 2014
This comfort soup is one of my absolute favorites...it's creamy, cheesy, and hearty. The perfect choice to make for your family and to [...] |
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| Project Chemo Comfies |
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Posted By:
Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Sep 29, 2014
You're invited to join us this year for Project Chemo Comfies. Last year, my family donated over 350 fleece blankets to two cancer centers in Maryland to give out to their patients during the holidays! [...] |
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