Ralph and I come from divorced families. Ralph's parents separated when he was in elementary school, mine when I was fifteen, and again within the first year of our marriage. The emotional pain is hard to describe. The impact those divorces have made on us still to this day....The broken pieces we have had to pick up for each other...

If I am being honest, I regret bringing many of the things into our home that I did in order to keep my three boys occupied every day. It created unnecessary chaos, but I digress. There is one object, however that I look at daily and think, “I am so thankful this was brought into our home.”

I say this constantly. It hasn't changed. Parenting is the hardest thing I've done and I do not believe anything will top it.