Acknowledgments

I would like to send a massively huge thank you to Course Technology PTR for giving me the opportunity to write this book. My editor, Cathleen Small, is beyond amazing—always helping me with wording, what to include, how to say it, and which images to include...all the while growing her own beebster and taking care of her three-year-old! Thank you to Dan Gasparino for all his help and ideas and for believing in me!

Thank you to Mary Heath Swanson (www.maryheath.com) for being my wondersum technical editor, my idea gal, and the best listener and problem solver!

Thank you to Sara Ensey (scriptacuity.com), my editor before Cathleen and my dear friend, for helping me with the book proposal and providing tons of encouragement and help throughout the process!

Without my amazing clients and friends, I would have no business, so THANK YOU! Thank you for trusting me to document your lives and be a part of your child’s life. You’re wonderful, and I’m grateful every day for you!

Thank you to my dad and moms for raising me to know I can do anything I want to and for giving me life. To my sister for being the best sister ever and for watching Poppy for countless hours while I wrote. To my grandparents for raising my parents so they could raise me, and for being a constant support. And to my brothers for loving and helping me.

And to my new parents who I married into in 2007, thank you every day for everything you do for us. We are so lucky to have you! You make our life what it is, and you make Poppy’s world go ’round. Thank you for all your hard work, past and present, that allows us to have the life we have today. Thank you for loving me like your own and for being the best Mimi and Pawpaw a kid could ask for!

Thank you to John and Poppy for your love, inspiration, and help and for the fun you bring to my life daily. I love you to the moon and back and back again. You’re my amazing fruits; you complete the PB&J.