The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have had an unexpected turn of events with our precious tiny P this week… and we are back in the hospital. Poor tiny P. She just cannot get a break… At the beginning of the week we noticed that tiny P’s face was swollen. Well, more swollen than usual on one side and her…

A few days ago we went out while it was warm and collected some of the last Fall leaves. Gathering leaves, or “leaf hunting,” as little M calls it, is one of the babies’ favorite things to do… Even tiny P gets in on the action… We make piles… We add the pretty ones to…

Clearly, we need a toddler sized winter hat, rather than an infant size… Precious giant headed girl… Instead of pumpkin carving this year, we did stickers. Little M declared it “okay, but a tiny bit boring…” We were trying to get her to take a pacifier instead of a bottle at night. She accepted this…

She loves her family more than anything, and she makes each of us feel important. She taught me how to be a good mom, and a good wife. She is beyond amazing, and the truth is that even if she were not my mom, I would still go out of my way to be friends…

After little M grew out of her clothes, we passed them along to friends… and we were very grateful to have many of those clothes passed back when we were expecting tiny P. I have always enjoyed seeing my kids in cute clothes, but I never dreamed how nostalgic it would make me to see…