Tracy, thanks! I might do this "five days, five paragraphs" routine again. I just hope I don't have many weeks that are quite so packed with emotional stories to tell!

Hamish, yes, you're right. The thoughts that accompany the events, even the little day-to-day happenings, are what matter in the end. That's one of the things I love so much about writing and blogging—it requires me to be more conscious of those thoughts, and gives me a reason to gather them up, articulate them, and weave them together.