Sunday, 23 December 2012
Friday, 14 December 2012
Good news!
Hi pa,
we got good news at the hospital, John doing really well the oncologist was pleased with all his results.
He will continue to be monitored of course.But we feel very happy, for now, after all now is all we have .
The world has lost Patrick Moore pa , you loved his programme as I did . I think we all loved him in our family.Also Kenneth Kendal one of the first news readers a million years a go, and Neil Armstrong.
All good men and true.
We have our tree up, it is a real beauty. I could not face it last year, as you had not long gone, and we were having Christmas and New Year between Salford and Glasgow.
We went to the hospital this morning and it was cold ,dreary ,grey and wet, while we were gone our cleaners came in, and we came home, having got good news, to a beautiful clean house, filled with the smell of scotch pine and the glow of the tree lights.
It felt great, and we are very grateful for our wee butt and ben!
I have the last night of The Artist's Way course on Monday night,the students will love the tree and the festive atmosphere. I finish Counselling and Supervision on Wednesday night :-) and I don't go back to work till January 28th.I am looking forward to the time off.
We have our Christmas gathering for friends on 20th, I am doing Scottish fayre for that occasion. people will bring poems and readings and songs,it will be a lovely evening. I am sure.
We are cooking Christmas Lunch this year, been a while since we did this .I am sure all will be well.
As I type, it is twenty past four, and it is pitch black outside ,it is pouring with rain, but we are cosy.John is having his siesta, and I will soon make the almond paste for our Christmas cake.
I think I am getting better physically pa, tonight we will have a celebratory drink for John's good news.
I love you I miss you,but I don't feel so desperate pa, the start of the preparations for Christmas was hard, but I feel calmer now.Sandra sent me a lovely card, from her to me, very special, who would have thought it?It feels very nice, and the boys and their families are coming to visit, that is wonderful. And I have my own wonderful "little family ," as John refers to it, and a wonderful step -family too.Phil is very much part of that too, which according to some friends it is a miracle,but it is not ,it is down to all of us having goodwill and wanting to make it happen.It takes work on every ones part. It has worked out for us , thanks be to the universe.
Went to see you at the five trees the other day, your tree is very wintry now, and you have a great view of the swans and Canada geese ,duck seagulls and waterhens.
May there be peace on earth and may it start with me!
we got good news at the hospital, John doing really well the oncologist was pleased with all his results.
He will continue to be monitored of course.But we feel very happy, for now, after all now is all we have .
The world has lost Patrick Moore pa , you loved his programme as I did . I think we all loved him in our family.Also Kenneth Kendal one of the first news readers a million years a go, and Neil Armstrong.
All good men and true.
We have our tree up, it is a real beauty. I could not face it last year, as you had not long gone, and we were having Christmas and New Year between Salford and Glasgow.
We went to the hospital this morning and it was cold ,dreary ,grey and wet, while we were gone our cleaners came in, and we came home, having got good news, to a beautiful clean house, filled with the smell of scotch pine and the glow of the tree lights.
It felt great, and we are very grateful for our wee butt and ben!
I have the last night of The Artist's Way course on Monday night,the students will love the tree and the festive atmosphere. I finish Counselling and Supervision on Wednesday night :-) and I don't go back to work till January 28th.I am looking forward to the time off.
We have our Christmas gathering for friends on 20th, I am doing Scottish fayre for that occasion. people will bring poems and readings and songs,it will be a lovely evening. I am sure.
We are cooking Christmas Lunch this year, been a while since we did this .I am sure all will be well.
As I type, it is twenty past four, and it is pitch black outside ,it is pouring with rain, but we are cosy.John is having his siesta, and I will soon make the almond paste for our Christmas cake.
I think I am getting better physically pa, tonight we will have a celebratory drink for John's good news.
I love you I miss you,but I don't feel so desperate pa, the start of the preparations for Christmas was hard, but I feel calmer now.Sandra sent me a lovely card, from her to me, very special, who would have thought it?It feels very nice, and the boys and their families are coming to visit, that is wonderful. And I have my own wonderful "little family ," as John refers to it, and a wonderful step -family too.Phil is very much part of that too, which according to some friends it is a miracle,but it is not ,it is down to all of us having goodwill and wanting to make it happen.It takes work on every ones part. It has worked out for us , thanks be to the universe.
Went to see you at the five trees the other day, your tree is very wintry now, and you have a great view of the swans and Canada geese ,duck seagulls and waterhens.
May there be peace on earth and may it start with me!
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
St Andrew's Day Christmas is coming! Andrew's finger.
Still having a bad time physically. third massage on Friday hoping for some progress in my neck and lower back.
Lots happening pa. John came back from London and Cambridge having had a wonderful time, but alas with the children's germs, why are children such carriers?
My stress levels are quite high so I am trying to do all the right things to help myself.
Massage, walks , less work, more peace and quiet. I went into Rennie's the other day and there was a big card with Happy Christmas Mum in the doorway. I had to leave the shop felt very emotional.This is a difficult time for me ,for us, for all of us, for most people in fact. Christmas can be stressful for so many families.
This year I feel very tired, and wonder how it will all be done, but of course it will be.
Everyone will help out I am sure. We had a lovely St Andrew's night celebration for John's return, with Andrew and Lucy,haggis neeps and mash.and a wee dram.Scottish music and John and I dancing .It was fun.
Gary and Wendy are coming just after Christmas and Matthew and Marie just after New Year.
It is very new, I imagine that like me, they are looking for a new focus, with no parents to visit, and no Kintillo, what ever it is ,I benefit, but hope it will be quiet with plenty time to really talk share remember.
Last year we still had Kintillo, we had two family celebrations while I was there, the family came in and out all over January, sorting out all of Ma and Pa's things.
It was sad and happy too.
Andrew has broken his finger :-( playing five aside, he seems to be unlucky ,he has broken a few things over the years. yet he is doing things which will keep him fit,so you would not want to discourage that.
He is in hospital now as I type, looking forward to hearing how he is, he might not be taken till mid afternoon :-( poor we soul! I thought of just going to the hospital to keep him company,although he said "no" but I wakened up with a sore throat and feeling a bit fluy,so i don't want to take germs into the hospital.
I may go later to collect him ,in a cab, but I will not be hanging around.
I was hoping to go to the Match tomorrow night with Andrew and Philip , but I don't think Andrew will feel like or be well enough,to go, and if he does not, then I am not sure if I feel like the journey back after the match. I will see how it all pans out tomorrow.
I have made all my Christmas cards pa, you would approve, bought all the Christmas gifts, made tags.
I still don't feel Christmassy,hoping that will come, maybe if I feel physically better.
I made Matthew a great Birthday card, and Sandra and Harry a great Anniversary card.I like doing it. Might do more of it and sell my cards.
I am thinking of retiring from counselling at Easter, it is such a big commitment, and hard for people when I take time off ,which in view of John's illness, I would like do more of to be free-er.
I would continue to do supervision-and concentrate on my workshops, which I can run to suit myself.
I need to tell people soon,if I am going to do it.
I don't have anything like the practise that I had in Ireland, but even so it is hard to bring it to an end.
Hoping for better health soon.
I think of you every day Pa, miss you ,wish you were here or at least in Glasgow.
I like to tell you things here on the blog,it helps imagining you hearing all this ,with great interest , especially in the family things.
all shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
and so it is.
Lots happening pa. John came back from London and Cambridge having had a wonderful time, but alas with the children's germs, why are children such carriers?
My stress levels are quite high so I am trying to do all the right things to help myself.
Massage, walks , less work, more peace and quiet. I went into Rennie's the other day and there was a big card with Happy Christmas Mum in the doorway. I had to leave the shop felt very emotional.This is a difficult time for me ,for us, for all of us, for most people in fact. Christmas can be stressful for so many families.
This year I feel very tired, and wonder how it will all be done, but of course it will be.
Everyone will help out I am sure. We had a lovely St Andrew's night celebration for John's return, with Andrew and Lucy,haggis neeps and mash.and a wee dram.Scottish music and John and I dancing .It was fun.
Gary and Wendy are coming just after Christmas and Matthew and Marie just after New Year.
It is very new, I imagine that like me, they are looking for a new focus, with no parents to visit, and no Kintillo, what ever it is ,I benefit, but hope it will be quiet with plenty time to really talk share remember.
Last year we still had Kintillo, we had two family celebrations while I was there, the family came in and out all over January, sorting out all of Ma and Pa's things.
It was sad and happy too.
Andrew has broken his finger :-( playing five aside, he seems to be unlucky ,he has broken a few things over the years. yet he is doing things which will keep him fit,so you would not want to discourage that.
He is in hospital now as I type, looking forward to hearing how he is, he might not be taken till mid afternoon :-( poor we soul! I thought of just going to the hospital to keep him company,although he said "no" but I wakened up with a sore throat and feeling a bit fluy,so i don't want to take germs into the hospital.
I may go later to collect him ,in a cab, but I will not be hanging around.
I was hoping to go to the Match tomorrow night with Andrew and Philip , but I don't think Andrew will feel like or be well enough,to go, and if he does not, then I am not sure if I feel like the journey back after the match. I will see how it all pans out tomorrow.
I have made all my Christmas cards pa, you would approve, bought all the Christmas gifts, made tags.
I still don't feel Christmassy,hoping that will come, maybe if I feel physically better.
I made Matthew a great Birthday card, and Sandra and Harry a great Anniversary card.I like doing it. Might do more of it and sell my cards.
I am thinking of retiring from counselling at Easter, it is such a big commitment, and hard for people when I take time off ,which in view of John's illness, I would like do more of to be free-er.
I would continue to do supervision-and concentrate on my workshops, which I can run to suit myself.
I need to tell people soon,if I am going to do it.
I don't have anything like the practise that I had in Ireland, but even so it is hard to bring it to an end.
Hoping for better health soon.
I think of you every day Pa, miss you ,wish you were here or at least in Glasgow.
I like to tell you things here on the blog,it helps imagining you hearing all this ,with great interest , especially in the family things.
all shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
and so it is.
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