When my kids were little, I wrote short snippets capturing our daily lives. Now they're teens, and this window into our past is priceless.

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• My kids are 15 months apart and I was very sleep deprived when they were little. 
• I started writing snippets of our days together to remember all the memories. 
• It's not anything fancy, but the memories are priceless. 

It took me almost a year to calculate that my kids, Sylvia and Nico, were 15 months apart. When Nico was a newborn, people regularly commented on my "full hands" and asked me how close the kids were in age.