
1. A mentor of mine moving away when I was a young teen
2. My sister-in-law's loss of two babies at birth
3. First Christmas away from home
4. First Christmas in Tennessee
5. The loss of our two beloved hounds, before we had children; and more recently, our miniature dachshund-
6. The loss of my aunt to cancer
7. The loss of my husband's dear grandmother-I have known her most of my life
8. The births of each of my babies...
9. Leaving friends behind when we moved here
10.Every time one of my own had a potentially "close call," but God's angels preserved them.