Thanks to everyone for the hugs - real and virtual!
Life continues to throw us curveballs but we are learning to ride with them!
The next few days promise to be stressful, Tuesday should see the start of the court case; Wednesday the sale of the house and Thursday the Coroner's Court - all of which we are expected to fit around the demands of the day jobs - thank goodness for flexitime working.
So in preparation for what is to come we escaped for the weekend and visited my family and finally got to meet Olivia. Uncle Matt had his hands full keeping up with the girls
Alix took to the role of photographer's assistant like a duck to water and gave Matt a guided tour of the garden getting him to take photos of her favourite flowers.
I spent time talking to Mum and all my sisters (first time we were all together for 3 years) and as usual at family gatherings a lot of the time was spent in the kitchen preparing mountains of food - due to a wide number of allergies there is very little that we can all eat so meals tend to resemble elaborate buffets!
I did find some time to start this
it's the Woodland Shawl using Manos silk and wool - lovely yarn to work with and an easily memorised pattern which made for good motorway knitting.
On a more serious note, thanks to the wonderful work of HEMS and the skill of the staff at the Royal London Hospital there was some welcome news to quietly celebrate what is a promising start to what will be a long road to recovery.
Posted by Yvonne at May 26, 2008 09:04 PM