Elia's Life

If any of you out there in internet land were worried about Dad and his new life as a retiree, you don't need to. He has been keeping himself pretty busy and he hasn't even started on all of his projects. :) He has been spending a lot of time in the garden and that has been nice. Surprisingly enough, I really like fresh green beans. Anyway, the other day, he went outside and really caught the hang of this whole retirement thing...

So, I'm not in the habit of posting emails I receive from people on my blog, but I just received one from Roni that had to be put here. This is the cutest thing I've heard in forever... Elia, So I was babysitting today for a friend that had to be at girls camp. I walked downstairs this morning to this conversation! Makadie: "OK Beetle you can put it right there" Isaac: "My name is John Lennon, not beetle!" Makadie: "But you said you were going to be a Beelte" Isaac: "Well I am John Lennon" Makadie: "OK, John Lennon can you hand me that baby bottle so that I can feed the baby!" It was kind of fun to have John Lennon playing in our basement today! I thought you would get a kick out of this! Hope you guys are having a great weekend! Love-- Roni Is that not the cutest thing you've ever read! One of these days when she gets a little older, I'll have to introduce Makadie to the real John Lennon. I wonder if she'...

For those of you who might be reading my blog and don't know, Armed Forces Day is May 19th. It is also the biggest town celebration Hawthorne ever has. That's the time when they do a parade and fireworks and all that jazz. It was a very big deal when we were growing up there. In fact, I marched in the AFD parade every year from the second grade until I had graduated and gone to college. Well, this year, someone had the idea that Mom or I should get to Hawthorne and surprise Dad for AFD. Well, we both talked about it and decided that I would try and go. So I immediately sent out a message to the four friends that I have and asked if anyone wanted to go for a weekend road trip. The responses I got were all pretty "mheh" so I disregarded the idea and began looking forward to a rather dull weekend. About two days before AFD weekend, I finally got some interest. And then the day before, Amanda told me that she was in. At this point I was very, VERY excited. Okay, so I was ...