Happy May 1st

My dear Mom is coming home tomorrow. The surgery was a success, she is up walking and doing her physiotherapy. The house has all the modifications in...safety bars, toilet adaptions, bed rail, shower seat, walker..etc. It has been a difficult 2 weeks, helping my Dad, getting him back and forth to the hospital, staying overnight (my sis did that)..phone calls to physios, occupational therapist, social worker, surgeon, gp,meetings with nursing and generally keeping the family in the loop. So thank you for all your prayers and good wishes. So now starts the next phase...getting up and about. !! May the sun shine on you my dear friends...take care..

Prayers Requested

My Mom fell at home this evening, was taken to the hospital and found after an xray she had broken her hip. She was transferred to Surrey Memoral Hospital and they will complete the surgery sometime tomorrow. Both my parents are in their eighties and have been living successfully at home. Please remember my Mom in your prayers. Thank you dear friends !!!!

Miss Madelynn !!

She is so independent!!

Three generations...Memere, Granddaughter and great-granddaughter

Nana and her precious lil monkey!!

My granddaughter and her Mom came for a family wedding in the middle of March. Due to illness anad crazy busy, I haven't had a change to post some pictures of my darling lil bug..But Madelynn is such a busy little girl I think I'll change that name to lil monkey. She is the darling of our eyes and I love her so. We are heading up to her home in Calgary in the middle of May

for her 1st birthday !!! So only 6 more weeks before I get my Maddy fix lol.

Sooooo Tired !!!

I am sooooo tired !!!!!

My darling lil bug and her Mom were here for a week..a family wedding, family gatherings, people over, people sleeping over..visiting both sets of great-grandparents, great-aunties..OH MY GOODNESS>>>>I loved every minute of it, even though I am not the world's most social person....Last time I held Madelynn, she was only 2 months old...now she is 10 months and 30 lbs..trying to walk and a go-go girl...Lil Bug and her Mom ,Dh and Sil all had colds. I haven't been sick in over +2, so now I have been sick since Saturday and on my way to bronchitis.......Thus I haven't been reading your blogs, facebook or trying any of your fab projects. Maybe next week !!!!!! Plus another good news. I am going to be grandma #2..my Son and Dear DIL are expecting in the fall !!!! Wonderful, now if only I can catch up on my sleep..Take care friends and know I am thinking of you !!!

HOPE

There's Hope

Doesn't Cost a thing to Smile,

Don't have to Pay to Laugh,

You better thank God for that.

There's Hope...

-India Airie

Valentine's Day..Mixed Feelings..

I have mixed feelings about Valentine's Day. As a child, my Mom made it a very special day..special dinner, card for each of us, heart-shape cake with pink icing. But at school , I was very shy, fat and wore glasses. On the day we brought cards to be placed in a box and the teacher handed them out. In grades 1 to 5, I didn't receive any cards at school. When I was a mother our children always made cards for all their classmates and I sent cookies to school. Today my DH left a heartfelt card and my fav chocolate on the breakfast table. So enjoy the day and remember the lonely who could use a kind word or gesture today. Take care friends.

Where art thou Spring???

Here on the west coast of Canada, we have had a long and wet winter...grey, dull days with the occasionaly sunny one..Australia has had a summer of monsoon rains and now a cyclone..eastern Canada and the Maritimes have been hit with snow storms and blizzards...midwest USA and the eastern seaboard have had their share of cold and blowing snow....Where or where is Spring?? When I was a young mother living in the Prairies, in February, after a long, cold winter, I would buy a single hyacinth to fill the house with the crisp, earthy smells of spring..which sometimes wouldn't arrive till May/June... I procrastinated this fall and it wasn't till November that I decided to cool some bulbs in my mini-fridge..to force bulbs..the intention was for Christmas..However, today the first of 6 white hyacinth bulb has opened... my spring longing has been slightly appeased with the first scent of spring....Is winter harder to complete as you get older? or is it the memory of the smells and sights of Spring live deep in our spirit?? Wherever you live may Spring arrive soon !!!!!!!