It's Here!

It's here!  Nurse Mabel is here!

We arrived from vacation weary, and, in my case, starting a bit of a fever.

Bigger Girl had done as much around the house as she could, but she is also working full time and in a summer class.  The house, especially after we unloaded all of our stuff, looked like a bomb had gone off.

There was a pile of mail, as usual, and it included stuff for Sweetie's retirement info, bills, and more.  My eyes were transfixed by one thing though, and that was a package with a London return address.

Ripping into it, i found this:

The book!  In all its glory.

 As much as i had on my list to do, i sat right down and read it cover to cover.

It's a wonderful book!  The story is fun and engaging.  It's a mix of history and how kids would think things should happen, with the heroes saving the day in a way only fleas (and children) would imagine.

If you have a child or grandchild, love children's stories, or just want to support a good cause, go order this enchanting little book.

Today is Abused Women And Children's Awareness Day Best Friends Day -- as declared by the ecard people Bounty Anniversary Day -- Norfolk Island (celebrates the arrival of the Bounty descendants from Pitcairn Island) Children's Sunday -- many US churches Feast of Bona Mens -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of right thinking, the personification of the mind) Judgement Day -- Fairy Calendar (The Good and Evil are given their just rewards) Lindisfarne Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (commemorating the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793) Multicultural American Child Day -- listed as a celebration on the second Sunday in June on many sites, with no way to trace it that i can find Name Your Poison Day -- just another wacky holiday with no explanations National Caribbean-American Health and Aids Awareness Day -- with events all over the US National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day Primoz Trubar Day -- Slovenia (birth anniversary of the author of the first Slovene language books and consolidated the Slovene language) Puerto Rican Day Parade -- NYC, NY, US (recognizing the many Puerto Ricans in the US, and especially in New York City) Race Unity Day -- Baha'i sponsored observance promoting racial harmony St. Medard's Day (Patron of brewers, captives, imprisoned people, mentally ill people, peasants, prisoners, vineyards; for good harvests, good weather, and rain; against bad weather, imprisonment, sterility, and toothache) related event:      Festival of the Rose -- Salency, France (on St. Medard's Day, and supposedly begun by that saint before the year 545) Upsy Daisy Day -- the day to remind people to get up joyfully and gratefully each morning (tell that to my sleep-til-noon family!) Vacuum Cleaner Day -- Ives W. McGaffee obtained a patent on this day in 1869 for the first carpet cleaner that worked on a vaccuum principle Watch Day -- the sign that you are over 30, you still wear a watch! Whit Sunday / Pentecost -- Christian      Hvitasunnudagur -- Iceland (sleeping in on Whitsunday is detrimental to your health, but monsters are asleep through the day and can be taken by surprise)      Romeria del Rocia -- Huelva, Spain (pilgrims transport an image of the Virgen del Rocio [Our Lady of the Dew] through Andalucia, with no motorized transport allowed, accompanied by Gypsy Caravans; when the image gets to the shrine, there is mass and a few days of fireworks and celebrating) World Brain Tumor Day -- International World Oceans Day -- www.worldoceanday.org Write to Your Father Day -- a week before Father's Day, write him a letter and ask him things like what he finds most enjoyable or exciting or scary or satisfying; encouraging people to stay in touch with Dad on a deeper level than the commercial holidays Anniversary Today: Christopher O'Neill marries Princess Madeleine of Sweden, 2013 Birthdays Today: Kim Clijsters, 1983 Kayne West, 1977 Julianna Margulies, 1966 Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1958 Scott Adams, 1957 Tim Berners-Lee, 1955 Griffin Dunne, 1955 Kathy Baker, 1950 Sara Paretsky, 1947 Boz Scaggs, 1944 Don Grady, 1944 Andrew Weil, MD, 1942 Nancy Sinatra, 1940 Bernie Casie, 1939 James Darren, 1936 Joan Rivers, 1933 Jerry Stiller, 1927 Barbara Bush, 1925 Robert Preston, 1918 Byron Raymond White, 1917 Francis Crick, 1916 Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 Debuting/Premiering Today: Trading Places(Film), 1983 Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter(First "dime novel", Publication date), 1860 Today in History: Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England, 793 Richard the Lionheart's Crusade begins with his arrival at Acre, 1191 American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, 1776 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine, 1783 Mr. Hall of NYC advertises the first commercially made ice cream, 1786 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents the first vacuum cleaner, 1869 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator, 1887 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value, 1906 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures, 1912 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater, 1948 The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons, 1953 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992 The first Transit of Venus since 1882 takes place, 2004 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years, 2007 Australia bans live cattle exports to Indonesia for up to six months in response to reports of cruel treatment at Indonesian slaughterhouse, 2011