I spent the Labor Day Weekend with family- including four nieces and nephews. The oldest being five and the youngest two being 14 months. What a whirlwind! But throughout the weekend, I loved looking at them, hugging them, playing with them, and telling them how much they are loved. None of the four are related biologically, but I will forever be chained to them because when they were born, I took them into my hearts and will never let them go. 

  
 I love this song by my favorite – Brandi Carlile. Says what I feel.

Wilder (We’re Chained)
Brandi Carlile

You came into this world with eyes as clear as water
You didn’t look a thing like your grandmother’s daughter
With a heart so heavy and beating like a drum
Yeah, neither did you look like your grandfather’s son

We’re chained, and when everything changes our love will stay the same
We’re chained, and when everything else goes away, our love will still remain
We’re chained
Wilder than a brushfire burns deep inside the bramble

Baby, I think God made your soul born to ramble
Maybe you’ll take to the far away places
Where life is gonna deal you a hand full of aces
But it doesn’t really matter how great the spaces

We’re chained, and when everything else changes our love will stay the same
We’re chained, and when everything else goes away our love will still remain
We’re chained
Life has a fuse and it burns with quickness

But death ain’t the long twisted branch of sickness
Just as the spark gives birth to a flame
We’ll be bound by our love and then the family name
We’re chained, and when everything else changes our love will stay the same

We’re chained, and when everything else goes away our love will still remain
We’re chained