It's going to be all right, I had told her, and it was more or less.

She ended up with a cast on her leg from the hip down to her ankle, and I have to do two

hours of physical therapy each weekday for the next couple of months. My car was destroyed,

and my wife only speaks to me when she absolutely has to, because she blames me for every bit of

what happened to our daughter and everything else on me, and I guess she has the right to,

but it's going to be all right eventually, at least I hope it will. We've had a tradition in

our house ever since our daughter was two years old. Once a month we have a family adventure where

we go and do something that we've never done before. It doesn't have to be big or an expensive thing,

it just has to be something new and different. You would think that would be easily accomplished

with so much being available to everyone these days. You can't turn on a television or a radio

that someone isn't shouting and blasting at you to go here and do this or go there and experience

that. Those are the type of things my wife and daughter tend to go after. They enjoy doing things

that their friends have done so they can talk back and forth about it and compare notes.

I don't blame them, they get a real kick out of doing that, and in all honesty, most of the time

the weekends they have planned turn out to be a lot more fun than I would have originally

thought them to be after hearing what we were going to be doing. A driving two hours to go zip

lining for an hour is not something I would have come up with, but it turned out to be fun.

A full day of picking blackberries and then making them into jelly wasn't, at least not for me.

But any time an event has finished and I can look around in the car and see my wife and daughter

smiling and laughing and talking a mile a minute about the fun they had. Well, I'll take two out

of three as a win every single time. I could be having the worst time in the world all day long,

but if those two are happy, then it was a complete win. On the other side of the coin though,

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