Hambet has been on a crime spree lately, and I have been stalking around muttering about how it's a miracle you haven't seen me on the eleven o'clock news yet, or how it's a miracle that he made it to his fifth birthday (which was on February 22.)
How easy it is to forget. How easy it is to take things for granted -- God forgive me, to take even a child for granted. Hambet was a miracle baby. He arrived after four years of anguished prayer on February 22, 2001. He turned five on February 22, 2006.
February 22, 2006 was the same day that Elena entered eternal life. She would have been seven this Friday. Pray for us, little Elena.