Hey everybody!! I'm terrible at keeping up on this stuff and need to be more consistent. Well here is a day of new beginnings. Where will I start?
How about the latest drama in the story of our beloved princess. June was a very busy month, as I'm sure it was for all of you. School is out vacations are in full swing and all the good and bad things that happen in everyday life. June found my precious Elliana playing in the living room with her two younger brothers while I was cleaning the garage, and Mary was cleaning the classroom upstairs. Apparently Eliana had slipped on a book and reached back to catch herself and snapped her little arm at the growth plate. Can you believe that!?! 14 years with boys who have relentlessly beat each other with swords, speared one another, clubbed one another, forked one another, yes I said forked (I'll explain one day), but never a broken bone, not one!! Yet my Bangel (cross between a baby and an angel) of 6 months breaks her arm. Go figure. I don't want anybody to get hurt but why couldn't it have been one of my tough little "knuckle draggers"...LOL Oh well it is what it is. Shortly after the visit to the ER (where I was convinced that everybody was judging me as the bald abusive father) she had to have surgery and get three pins put into her arm. Poor thing, I was there with her before she went into surgery and when she got out. Mary unfortunately couldn't go due to the pregnancy and sporadic contractions. Quietly I didn't mind it being just me and her.
I love this little baby-girl so much, she's so special. Anyway she had the pins for three weeks and a cast (soft and hard) to accessorize it. She's since had the pins removed and the cast cut off and she's back to terrorizing the house.
Girls are so special, Elliana can raise a ruckus when she wants to, but it's nothing like the four boys (soon to be five) which bring the atmosphere of the movie "Gladiator" into the inner sanctum of the house. I love it when she talks on her little cell phone, and she twirls around on the living room floor.
My grandmother just passed away this month, in her few possessions that were left behind was a gold powder/music box that I have always loved since before I could remember. I think it plays something from the nutcracker (I'm a guy and not very savvy with things like that), anyway I placed it in her room a couple of weeks ago and every night before she goes to bed I open it up and let it play for her. I hope she likes it, although one day she might chastise me and tell me how that tune sucked!! Oh well I'm the daddy, "suck it up Bangel"! Just kidding I'm sure she loves it, she always smiles brightly when I turn it on.
Well that's enough for now.
Everybody take care and God bless you, our God's pretty awesome to say the least.
Joe
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