It's actually her nickname. We have a Pipsi and a Thumper. Both 8 (Stepsisters). Pip is really small for her age. She is in the 5 percentile meaning 95% of all kids her size are taller. She is mean as a rattlesnake though, Routinely beating up older boys in the neighborhood (No Joke).

When my wife divorced her daddy (We will call him John Doe), he told two different people separately that years later relayed the story to me; "I don't care anything That girl but I want 50% custody of my son".

Well I met her mama about 1 1/2 years later when she came to Hawaii on Vacation (I have a house there and was living there with full custody of my other little girl, Thumper).

We have been together ever since. We rented the house out in Hawaii and moved here as we wanted to raise our kids here and not there.

Here is the heart breaking part for me though... I'll try to get through it with dry eyes.

The first time I had to leave the family and go to Hawaii on business alone I was looking for my ring (Pip had given it to me as a present and it has the Lord's Prayer on it). Well after looking for a while I asked the kids if they had seen it. Pip started crying and said, "Daddy I took it because I am afraid you won't come back to me but I know you'll come back for the ring!"

It broke my heart and tears started streaming down my face too. I said, "Baby, I will always come back to you. I am crazy about YOU, and can't breath without you for very long; like a fish out of water."

That's a true story. Now everytime I am gonna be gone somewhere over night she wears that ring on a string around her neck.

Anyway my wife and little boy are out of the country for a couple weeks and Thumper Flew out to Hawaii a couple days ago to spend Christmas with her mom so it's just me and Pip right now.

I didn't mean to tell you boys all that. Just kinda typed itself out. Sorry.