My favorite time of day is early morning. The sky, when the sun first starts to show through is just beautiful. The colors, soft hues of red and orange and pink and blue... There's nothing quite like it. In the garden especially, where everything is in shadow, but slowly takes on the light until it starts to glow.

I'd never really taken the time to notice the sky before. As a kid, I used to lay on my back in the yard and try to count the stars with my brothers, and Luke used to always point out the constellations to me and Kevin, but it never really meant anything to me. It was just stars and sky, and it was just there.

Being a mother has changed everything. The sky is so much more than just the sky now. It's a whole new world waiting for my little girl to discover its beauty.