From Serenity Comes Gentleness, Comes Lasting Strength.

Kittens Are Wide-eyed, Soft And Sweet. With Needles In Their Jaws And Feet.

A Younger Sister Is Someone To Use As A Guinea-pig In Trying Sledges And Experimental Go-carts. Someone To Send On Messages To Mum. But Someone Who Needs You - Who Comes To You With Bumped Heads, Grazed Knees, Tales Of Persecution. Someone Who Trusts You To Defend Her. Someone Who Thinks You Know The Answers To Almost Everything.

Dads Are Most Ordinary Men Turned By Love Into Heroes, Adventurers, Story-tellers, Singers Of Songs.

We Expect Too Much At Christmas. It's Got To Be Magical. It's Got To Go Right. Feasting. Fun. The Perfect Present. All That Anticipation. Take It Easy. Love's The Thing. The Rest Is Tinsel.

Grandad Has A Long And Earnest Conversation With His Grandchild. He Says, You Are Noisy And Wiggly And Will Be Sent Back If You Don't Pull Herself Together....the Baby Smiles Complacently. She Has Him Exactly Where She Wants Him.