It's gonna be such a memorable experience for the children. The memories will last a life time. It's just a great experience for them. We're just happy to be able to provide them.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.

Dangerously close to having to work for a living.

It is too late to prevent the senseless and illegal shooting that took Victoria Cooper?s life, but we will have accomplished a lot if this case helps save the life of somebody else?s mother, daughter or sister,

We've been had.