from DD10
- her amazing photography
- beautiful poems that she writes (the best presents ever)
- her creativity
- her goofy sense of humor
from DD8
- her ability to think of questions that never would have occurred to me
- her ability to hear music at a depth that is beyond me
- her empathy
- her charisma
from DS5
- his fierce independence and ability to work around almost any "no" (this can be exasperating too).
None of them slept well in the early years -- who would have thought that "Horton Hears a Who" would have led to a nightmare about the mean monkeys and the great injustice in the world? that we would still have to watch the end of the movie first so that we would know that all the stressful stuff will turn out alright?
Try to grab hold of those good moments. It will get better.