1. Our daughter is baptized. I had no idea how much stress the preparation for that event generated.

2. There was cake. A big, sugary, frosting-ed baptism cake.

3. My whole family was there, cheering us on, taking up half the congregation.

4. My sister’s gift of a beautiful necklace for my daughter. It still takes me by surprise, when people give my daughter a gift.

5. Riding the train with my nephews at Bay Beach.