1. The manager at work encouraged me to follow up with a new position. This should bring an increase.

2. Staying home with my children.

3. Having a home in which to stay, even though it is not my own.

4. Looking in on beautiful sleeping children. Such peace as the world does not often see.

5. Visiting the pile of smooth stones with my, soon to be, 3 year old son. I had scratched his name into one of the stones and found it still there.