Abby’s 18th Birthday with Roasted Honey Pear Crostini

Lay sliced pears on a baking sheet, drizzl with honey and sprinkle with fresh thyme. Make Roasted Honey Pear Crostini where every bite is pure tantalizing sweetness!

Today’s our baby’s birthday and she is 18. It seems like yesterday when Abby was born, such an exciting time, bringing home a new baby sister to her two brothers, completing our family of 5. Thinking ahead and praying for my kids, my mind would wander off to different scenarios —how exactly would this little baby girl turn out, so fresh with fragility? Did Dr. Leman (Birth Order Book) have it right–the youngest and only girl in the family would in a sense act as the oldest—and what would the relationship with her brothers be? Would she be tough, caring, courageous, other-centered, and compassionate? I love the personality stuff, as it’s fun to look at the dynamics of families and figure it out without even knowing birth orders. I think Dr. Lehman was on to something … the question is, are these characteristics present at birth or are they gifted through experiences in life?

Abby was born!

I was excited to have a baby born in the fall, since the boys were both May babies, but it was unseasonably cold, and with that came colds, colic … and the holidays. A mixed bag of blessings. What was this exhausting thing called colic, anyway? The boys never had it, I had always only heard about it, and it wasn’t fun. But we loved our little girl anyway, and rolled right into Christmas, bouncing her on forearms and dealing with the colic, right into the wee morning hours. We’d pass her off to each other, and then fall exhausted into bed. Babies make us believe in the future. There is hope that they will grow up into amazing people

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