My week

Got a phone call thursday from the local supermarket saying they had my mum there and she had just had her bag stolen.  So off we went to get her.  Obviously she was upset - she will be 83 on tuesday - and cross with herself for letting go of it just for a second as she turned to look at some veg.  Of course when she turned back it was gone from her trolley.  The supermarket was good and phoned us and the bank to stop her cards and then let her have her shopping for free.  As her keys and address was also in her bag she was worried about that night, but we had a friend from church who knew about locks and he came and changed them all straight away.  Thankfully as her short term memory is fading fast she cannot remember all she had that was personal to her in the bag to fret about it.  My husband only got 1 1/2 hours sleep that night before going to work (he is nights) and my sister had to take the next day off work to take mum to the bank, police etc.  Now we have to get a new bus pass tomorrow, but she is worried that they will be waiting for her in town as they have her old one with her photo on. No amount of telling her they are not interested in her only the money is going to change that.  Mum only goes out once a week to her club then on to the supermarket to get some food and a taxi home, we hope this doesn't put her off of going out altogether.

You know the little sounds that come up with the i m profiles, everytime someone presumably uses their i m.   Well....... there is a man's voice that comes up saying 'mum'.  It sounds just like my son.  So much so that when i first heard it my stomach turned over.  It was like my son was calling me and needed me and i couldn't get to him to help him.  I have got used to it now but i still find myself answering sometimes and saying, yea, what do you want? or Hi!. 

How silly am i? :-)

Well i am about to start looking on here for a holiday once again.  I started a long while ago and then our holiday dates got muddled and now i am behind so i hope i can find something.  It does seem to take a long while even with the internet going through pages and pages looking for something.

So, wish me luck.

 

This and That

The sun is shining but the wind is  blowing and it is cold.  Every now and again black clouds come over and it rains for a few minutes then the sun is out again.

Granddaughter had the surprise of her life the other day.  I cannot go into here the background to this but my granddaughter has a grown up half sister and 2 half brothers on her Dad's side.  She has never seen her sister because the last time she had any connection with the family was when my grandkid was a baby.  It has always been grandkid's wish to meet her big sis.  Well without going into detail she turned up at my daughter's flat the other day without any warning.  Granddaughter and Sis just flew into each others arms with many tears and didn't put each other down for ages.  Next time she comes she might bring her brother to see grandkid.  For me i hope this is the beginning of a great realationship between the two.  My granddaughter could do with a big Sister to talk to.

Things have been busy around here as i am helping to put on a mission at our church and i have been busy making flyers and posters for the events we are having at the end of April.  Creativity is not something that comes natural to me, so it takes a lot of thinking about.  I was going to make a comment about the lovely pictures people put in their journals and how i wish i could make something like that but i am having a big senior moment and cannot think what you call them.  It will come back to me after i post this.

Last week i went to my daughter's church and listened to a swing band playing Glenn Miller and other jazzy things.  They also sang 'Barber Shop' as well.  It was a good night and the band was all made up of school kids of around 18yrs.  Shame they will be breaking up soon to go to Uni.

It's Mothering Sunday here today but nothing much is happening, not sure if that is good or bad.  I will have to think about that more.  It all became commercialised when people started calling it Mother's Day instead and forgot that it originally was a christian holiday to break the Lenten Fast, and the time when the girls in service would go back to their Mother church and visit their family with a simnal cake to show off what they had learned. Now it is just an excuse to double the price of flowers, chocolates etc. for a few days ripping off the young kids with their pocket money.

Son just came round with a card and some chocolates (perhaps i had better delete what i put above LOL!).  It was lovely to see him as i don't get to see him much, with 5 kids himself he is very busy, he had just come back from watching one of the twins at his football match.  To be quite honest the best present was to see him i could have done without the cards and chocies, but i will eat them anyway :-)

My life

Today is not a good day.  I have had a very stressful two weeks and it has taken its toll and now i am feeling ... anxious, shaky, blah!.   So i thought i would take a days holiday and just rest and re-group.  But that hasn't happened either.  Things have conspired to rob me of that as well.  So i have turned to God.  He has allowed this to happen so he must be trying to teach me something through it.  I know who is doing it, that old enemy, but God is allowing it.  I think i am understanding why, it is all to do with trusting him more and turning straight to him when there is trouble.  So i am saying to myself 'The Lord is my shepherd, i want for nothing.  He will lead me by still waters.  Amen.

My friend is having a similar problem, worried, anxious because her sister is in kidney failure.  Anything to take our minds off of what we should be doing which is setting up a mission fortnight to begin the end of April.  Someone is hoping we will be so stressed out and pre-occupied we will not be able to function properly.  Well it won't work!!!!

Apart from work which has been stock taking - hate it - nothing much has been happening.  Tomorrow i am going on a listening course, the first of two, which will last all day, then in the evening i am going to a jazz/big band night at my daughter's church.

I was sent one of those 4D scan pictures of my great grandson at 22 weeks.  It is very clear but i have to say they still look like little aliens.  I wonder what he will look like when he arrives?

Right i think i will go now in case i start babbling a lot of rubbish because i have nothing much to say.  American pop idol tonight.  Yay!!