My parents have certainly had a troubled relationship. They _________ often, and even fought a lot.

It was my dad’s _________ that has changed the relationship.

In 2018, my father, the always _________ dad, discovered that he had kidney (肾脏) disease.

The _________ to go ahead with a transplant (移植) for my father was very difficult. But Mom _________ going further. She decided to _________ a kidney to my father. She said she wasn’t _________, and it was the right thing to do.

At last a _________ was chosen — November 11. All our relatives and friends gathered in the _________ that day.

The __________ went well, and not long afterward, my sister and I were allowed to go in to visit. Dad was in a great deal of __________, but all he wanted to talk about was Mom. Was she OK? How was she feeling? When the nurses __________ Mom in a wheelchair into a recovery room to visit Dad, both our parents were trying to talk to each other through __________. The nurses allowed us to __________ the pendant (垂饰) to Mom, which Dad had bought and asked us to give to Mom after the operation. Everybody was crying, even the __________.

My dad was having a very __________ time fighting back emotion, and __________ my parents reached out to __________ each other’s hands. In my nearly 35 years of existence, I’d never seen my parents do that, I __________ a picture with my camera. That photo of my parents’ hands __________ everything.

When my little sister Indi turned six, she started__________my every move. She would repeat whatever I said or did, which got me annoyed.

One afternoon my friend Mareya and I were making bracelets(手链).“What are you doing?”Indi asked,__________down next to us at the table. “May I make one too?”I__________but Mareya said yes. Indi squeezed(挤)in so__________to me that I could hardly see(what I was doing. I asked her to give me more__________but she said she was trying to see my move clearly. “You don’t have to see what I’m doing. You can make your own design!” I told her in a(n)__________voice. “I can!” she said. But she was still using__________the same thing as I was using.

Later, Mareya suggested playing the guitar. I didn’t want Indi to__________me so we went to the backyard._______ten minutes later, Indi turned up “you are always following me, and I’m___ it!” As soon as those words came out of my mouth, I wished I had never said them. Indi was surprised and her eyes started filling up with__________She ran away__________I could say another word.

I disliked the shadow(影子)that didn’t belong to me，but I also felt__________about what I said.“It’s worth trying to_____       the why you see the situation. She acts like your shadow because she looks up to you.” Mareya said to me.

Now I still remember Mareya’s words and feel less upset about Indi’s behavior. Anyway, she should be treated with__________and kindness.

Routine can make a person blind to beauty. You can drive along the same road day after day, but it isn’t until you are in the passenger seat that you _______ the old farmhouse hidden just behind the trees. Raising children can have a similar effect. As time flows you _______ a routine.

Our normal life changed when our 3-year-old daughter Piper was diagnosed with autism(自闭症). As the youngest of our three children, Piper entered the world full of _______, but her laughter disappeared at the age of 3. Great _______ led my husband David and me to her doctor, and that day set off a chain of events that threw our routine out of the house.

I felt that while the rest of the world carried on, time for us had come to a _______. I was also worried about Kaydence and Cameron, feeling guilty for _______ them of quality time because so much of our time was invested in taking care of their sister. Fortunately with remarkable doctors and teachers, Piper started _______.

What happened next was nothing short of _______. I deliberately took a step back and became the “passenger” again. I forced myself to actually _______ our new routine instead of focusing on where we needed to be next. In doing so, I was given one of the greatest gifts in a decade of marriage. I was able to see my husband in a ________ light.

It suddenly occurred to me that my heart wasn’t the only one that ________ over the past few months. On Piper’s toughest days, I nearly suffered a ________. It was my husband who ________ me and provided Kaydence and Cameron with the consistency and nurturing they needed to ________ this storm with us. I ________ many people a great deal along this journey, but the biggest thanks go to my husband, a man never for a second let us lose our way.