I would be remiss if I did not say thank you to someone who is fast becoming one of my closest friends. He has helped my children and myself, unselfishly, asking nothing in return, and I've only known him a few short months. He is one of those people, whom it seems you must have known him forever. Mostly because you can't remember what life was like without him around.

He has helped us, because that's just who he is. He asks for nothing in return. He has been there in times of need and in times of laughter and in times of fun, and in times of struggle. He has done so without judgement or criticism during a strange time for us, when we aren't necessarily ourselves, when our emotional selves are topsy turvy. So I want to thank him for helping with our ups and downs, for helping us go to places we've never been and even with our car troubles. I hope someday I can repay his friendship tenfold.