- The way Peter's eyes crease at the corners when he smiles.
- Katie's nightly request, "Cover me, Mommy, with [Great] Grandma's blanket. It has her love."
- Katie calling to Peter, "Tell me a Peter Rabbit story, Daddy," and giggling at the crazy adventures and wacky characters Peter creates just for her.
- Phillip curled up in his crib, tightly hugging his little blue teddy bear that Aunt Lynn gave him on the day he was born.
- Katie sitting in her car seat with her sunglasses on (usually upside down).
- Phillip's toothless smile stretched from ear to ear with genuine enthusiasm at seeing me.
- Katie running into my arms each day, "Mommmmmmy!"
- Peter reaching to hold my hand at an unexpected moment.
- The imagination of a child.
- Katie reading Phillip a story while he gets his nebulizer treatment, and Phillip smiling at her the whole time.
What tugs at your heart strings?