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 :-)