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This time last week.
This time last week I was waiting for the teenagers to arrive and fill my house with noise and music, laughter and muddy footprints.
I survived the sleep-over, though none of the teens actually slept. They stayed up all night watching DVDs and shooting aliens.
I fed the teenagers into submission. They groaned and rolled their eyeballs, [...]
I drink alone…
When I drank, I drank a lot. I always maintained that I was a beeraholic not an alcoholic because there was wine in the cupboard and half a bottle of vodka on the shelf and surely if I was an alcoholic I would drink those as well.Wouldn’t I?
I wouldn’t have a beer until I was [...]
I keep on forgetting what day it is.
I know that today is Tuesday. The funeral is today. It is also David’s birthday today. But since Mum died last week, my brain has seriously gone on holiday and I find myself regularly asking, “What day is it today?”
Organising a funeral is horrible. Mum and I had talked about her funeral, we had even [...]
I am anticipating total mayhem
It has been raining steadily here for days now and everything is very soggy. The paths have turned to a muddy black mush.The water tanks are overflowing and in the middle of the night, Jeff’s shed and Dave’s bedroom floor suffered minor flood damage. Not enough to cause any real damage, just enough to be [...]
The Windows are dark.
I can see glimpses of my Mother’s house through the trees, from up here. We shared a property in the country. Mum lived a bit further down the valley on 14 acres and I am up here on the hill on my 4 acre lot.
Vonnie would often ring me wondering if it was too late [...]
Twelve months to the day.
I was called in to the hospital at 4 o’clock this morning. Dr D doesn’t think that Mum will make it through the day. I have rung my Brother, my Daughter, my Husband and my Nan.
I am sitting here holding Mum’s hand listening to Mum breathe and watching her sleep.
It is going to be a [...]
A gift of time…
When I started to recover from the shock and despair assosciated with Mum’s diagnosis of Lung cancer, the positive side of my nature kicked in and I treat every day with Mum as a gift of time.
Mum and I have always had a close relationship even when I was engaging in ‘destructive behaviours’ Mum was [...]
Eeeek! Mum has wireless broadband access.
My brother went into town and bought Mum a Wireless broadband thingy. So now Mum is back online I had better be careful with what I say hehehe.
As Mum said in her comment I can run but I can’t hide.
Mum Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 9:14 pm e
You can run, but you cant hide,I now [...]
An update for Lauren.
Mum’s friend Lauren reads my blog and I have now given my blog address to various friends and family as a way for me to get information out there without having to write a gazillion emails or spend all evening on the telephone.
Mum was much better yesterday (Tuesday) She still needed help to get in [...]
“My Nanny is very sick.”
Out of the mouths of babes.. *sigh* Amy looked at my Mum in her hospital bed and then very solemnly told me, “My Nanny is very sick”.
I had to agree with her, “Yes Darling, Nanny is very sick.”
I don’t know what is harder, writing about Mum and her cancer knowing that she reads my blog. [...]