It did get hard as she progressed. It was harder to take family vacations and to get off the ice for any length of time.

She's really acclimated well here. And she loves pizza. So she's living on it up here.

We're just so proud of her, because as good as she is on the ice, we know she's even better off the ice.

found the family functioning very well as a family.

Every family gathering is difficult. My dad has four great-grandchildren he has never seen. I have two twin grandchildren that will never know him. We can tell them about him, but that's all they will have,

I'm not one to show off. The way I looked at it was that my family liked it, and that was OK with me.