The dog and the baby got together before bedtime last night and decided they'd play tag team between 1am and 7am. Come 7am I had lost my sense of humor. . .the dog was left to fend for himself - outside, before sunrise, and thankfully the baby learned from the dog's hard lesson, so he promptly went back to sleep.

It's for this very reason I started this blog series. . .to focus on the good in between the hours when you are fighting for patience, perseverance or just some darn sanity. So this evening, after we had tucked the kids in bed (for a total of 12 times in 1.5 hours and won the battle when the house finally fell silent) I was looking through old photographs.  I'm creating a series of photo books with the THOUSANDS of photographs digitally stored - and begging to be printed. It's so simple - just upload and viola. . .your photo books appear on your front door step a few days later!

Here's a special moment that will make an appearance in Declan's photo book. . .he was only 8 days old!