It’s not nice to hit

It’s never nice to hit but it’s hard to be mad when an uncontrolled movement is the cause of the hit.

This morning, Emily was really giddy.

I love giddy Emily. It makes for a fun morning.

She ran to the kitchen to grab her phone to check on her “pet hotel” game and ran back to jump in my bed.

Daddy was calling her for breakfast so she was even more excited.

As she flopped around and tried to hide under the blanket to escape daddy; secretly hoping he was coming to catch and tickle her… She elbowed me!

Yes, you read that right.

For the first time in my life I took an elbow to the face. Left side, right in between my jaw, ear and eye.

Holy cow that was painful!

I screamed in pain. Not at Emily directly, just a generic pain scream.

That did make Emily run out of the room quickly and sit down for breakfast!

I’m lucky, I didn’t turn blue but 13 hours later… I am still in some discomfort. The left side of my face is really not happy and slightly blue’ish… I’ve had a headache all day and my stomach has been acting up all morning.

I’m guessing my child gave me a mild concussion….

And that is something I never thought I would say.

Look at her, she doesn’t look like the type of girl to elbow her mom… Or does she? πŸ˜‡πŸ˜ˆ

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October, a month to be thankful and remember

October for us is a month of anniversary. I will take you through them one at the time but before I start with that, I need to wish a Happy Birthday to me little brother.

I know, this has nothing to do with lessons from my daughter or does it?

Some relatives, we wonder how we ended up in the same families while others are just a perfect match.

My little brother is the guy I would have picked for brother if I had anything to do with the decision πŸ™‚

We might have had some siblings arguments at one point or another but overall we just get along.

We shared a bedroom growing up. Years later, when I would come home on school break, I would still take the second bed in that room and we would chat until mom would come to tell us to stop talking and sleep because he had school the next day πŸ™‚

He had my back in my early teenage years while my friend’s little brothers kept telling on them… I had his back too when he got older and needed back-up to his “stories”

When I look at my baby brother, I wonder if we should have given Emily a sibling. I like our family the way it is but if I could pick a sibling for her, I would pick a guy like my little brother. The thing is, we can’t pick siblings…

I always knew he would be the godfather of my first baby.

Look at them on our red and green Christmas

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Priceless! Please Jo, don’t hit me for posting this picture! :p

In recent years, I have read the Secret and the Magic. In the last book (which I am still no done) we learn to be thankful and recognize the value of the people in our life.

I made a list of my really small inner circle. The people I would trust with my life. The people I trust with Emily.

Jon and Emily

My mom and mother-in-law

My little brother and his wife

Melanie

Monique

Loraine

9 people…

This next layer of this inner circle of mine as more people in it but this is my first layer of VIP (Very Important People)

How many people do you have in your first layer?

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