Alphabet Thursday ......F

Ok here we are again at Thursday already. or should I say Fursday ( ok I am struggling with F) .
Actually I am not that was a total fabrication of the facts. The obvious F for me is Faith but I have shared that alot on here, I could have shared about festivities and Father Christmas but its a wee bit too early for that so here goes.

For me there are two very important F words in my life and they are ......

and

Firstly I will share with you my family



Me



Rebecca 26 married to Carl

Elizabeth 25 engaged to James

Christopher 23 married to Gemma and about to become a Daddy

Hannah 20 girlfriend to Tom

Adam 19 adopted into the family after his Mum died 3 years ago having been a part of our family all his life



So as you see I have an extensive family . Add into that  AJ  ( Aunty Jean )  and  Robert my brother who has two daughters and two grandaughters

You might be getting the picture I have a large family. Well I do and I am very thankful for that .

Of course I have 4 cousins in America who between them have 8 children and they have a further 3 children .

So basically if I traced back to my maternal Grandparents

its like this  My Grandparents had four daughters who between them had 6 children who went on to have 10 children, they went on to have 10 children ( + 1 on the way) and they are continuing  the generations by so far having 3 children .

You lost or just bored? 

Ok you may have picked up that family is important to me. This year saw the Deaths of both my Father and my Aunt, two Fabulous  parents to their chuildren and grandchildren and in my Aunts case her great Grandchildren.

The miles keep us a part but thanks to

 

we can all keep intouch with each other.

Ok now onto FRIENDS

I read somewhere that friends is made up of just 7 letters and that you cant last 7 seconds without a friend.

I am not sure about 7 seconds but I certainly could not survive without my friends .

I have different friends for different times  for instance if I had something to share with a Christian I would call up a different friend than if I wanted to share a piece of family news or work news .

I have friends who are like sisters and friends that are like a parent to me.

I have male and female friends thankfully I have been blessed with an fantastic group of friends who are basically the family that you choose.

I really do see these friends as family.

And I really hope that I am a good friend.

These two verses sum up friendship for me . Unlike my family who I have named I am not naming my friends because if they are reading this they will know hwo they are .

Last year I had to do a PSHE lesson at school about friendship and basically the children had to have the above and fill in people/friends in the circles for example the centre would be you and maybe one or two close family/friends that know all about you . Next would come another couple of people who would know a bit less and so on till the outter space would be aquaintences with whom you exchange pleasantries .

I found this a very usefull lesson even for me.

Oh by the way this F week has come to you curtesty of Jenny over at Alphabet Thursday please pop in and say hi she has a class full of people like me who come up with a way of filling our blog pages on a Thursday .

MM just realised could have added Festivities and figs one of which I like and the other is good for you.

Then of course there is Flapjacks to which I apply Like and good for you .

Bye for now see you next week with H .........

PS just had another fought how do people who we have never met link into friends? I have lotes of those frew the internet  especially here in class.