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| Chrissy and Grandpa. |
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| Bella and Gabbi having fun. |
Ten years never flew faster than this decade of my youngest daughter's life. Ten years when she taught her family to love with a more intense love, celebrate with a greater joy, and laugh heartier laughs. To notice the daffodils budding, the sunshine in the trees, and watch the bluebirds flying overhead. She turned up the volume on our thanksgiving prayers, gave us the gift of patience, and made us into activists.
Christina has given me the courage to finally begin that writing career, and this week, my book
"A Special Mother is Born" will be on sale in the United Nations Bookstore!
Thank you to my funny, musical, loving daughter with the extra chromosome, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are the song in my heart!
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| Birthday party at home |
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| Birthday party at Grandpa's house |
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| You can't miss a farmer at heart! |
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| Christina likes to play school in the schoolhouse. |
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| A lovely 1830's family! |
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| Christina loves the cooper's workbench! |
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| Always the daddy's girl! |
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| We learned it takes 40 gals of sap to make one gallon of syrup! |
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| Aunt Mila and Daddy love Christina. |
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| Riding a HUGE sheep! |
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Break from walking is time for a hug!
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| Daddy and Uncle Manuel love Christina. |
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Lovely sunshine!
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| They saw fish swimming against the current. |
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| The family had a wonderful time! |
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| Christina loves sheep! |
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| Her sisters made amazing cupcakes from "Despicable Me" |
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| The dynamic duo, Chrissy and Mary! |
To celebrate Christina's ten years, we all spent a sunny, warm spring day in
Old Sturbridge Village. Its a peaceful place, where she knows the way around and happily visits her favorite sites, the schoolhouse, the cooper's workshop, the barnyard, and, of course, the candy shop!
“Ending an inconvenient life is a terrible thing. And age is no protection against this threat: the elderly are as much at risk as our youngest children.”
“To avoid overheating the debate, I will go much further back—to the Spartans, the only ones to eliminate newborns that they believed would be unable to bear arms or beget future soldiers. 
“We need to be clear;
“The enemies of life know that to destroy Christian civilization, they must first destroy the family at its weakest point—the child. And among the weakest, they must choose the least protected of all—the child who has never been seen, the child who is not yet known or love in the usual meaning of the word; who had not yet seen the light of day; 
“In modern democracies, which no longer refer to a higher moral law, upright citizens have an innate duty to aspire to laws that reflect what they believe to be best for society, and the only freedom they still possess.”
“It is not medicine we should fear, but the folly of mankind. Every day, the experience of our predecessors increases our ability to change nature by using its own laws. But using this power wisely is what each generation must lean in its turn. We are certainly more powerful today than ever before, but we are no wiser; technology is cumulative, wisdom is not.”
