Happy National Twins Day - PINTO and BEAN

Happy National Twins Day Pinto and Bean.

Pinto and Bean you made Daddy and I parents. From the day we found out we were expecting, we were parents. The day the doctors office called to confirm, they told me they were pretty sure it was twins because my numbers were so high. Shortly after the phone call, we were in the doctors office getting an ultrasound and it was confirmed....TWINS. From that moment, you were PINTO and BEAN.

Our first photo. So who is who...Pinto became Becca and Bean became Ian, Twin A and Twin B. We were overjoyed yet at the same time petrified, how were we going to go from 2 to 4 in a matter of seconds or minutes or however long it would take when delivery day came. Some how we did it, even when you tag teamed...with almost everything. We never imagined there would be a time when one of you would not physically be here, that one of you would pass away young, too young - unfair. But this is our story of PINTO and BEAN. We have all the memories which will forever be in our hearts. All of our days will forever be missing BEAN, Ian you will always be with us...watching over us.

LIFE IS A JOURNEY

Birth is a beginning

And death a destination

And life is a journey;

From childhood to

maturity

And youth to age;

From innocence to

awareness

And ignorance to

knowing;

From foolishness to

discretion

And then perhaps to

wisdom.

From weakness to

strength or

From strength to 

weakness

And often back again;

From health to

sickness,

And we pray to

health again.

From offence to

forgiveness,

From loneliness to

love,

From joy to

gratitude,

From pain to

compassion,

From grief to

understanding,

From fear to faith. 

From defeat to defeat

to defeat

Until, not looking

backwards or ahead,

We see that victory 

lies not

At some high point

along the way

But in having made

the journey

Step by step,

A sacred pilgrimage.

Birth is a beginning

And death a destination

And life is a journey.

~~ Rabbi Alvin Fine