V is for Very unfortunate.......... Eden House

V is for Very unfortunate

I thought I would kick of my return to blogging with my favourite blog. Alphabet Thursday.

It is a very unique blog that in essence is created by us the readers.

As the title suggests its all about the alphabet and our interpretation of each letter During my absence from the PC I have missed H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S ,t & U

I am sorry Teacher but I do not have a letter for my absence but honest I was not skiving.



I have spent the last 11 weeks (all except 8 nights) in hospital. I went in on January 17th for back surgery on 18th, I was due out on 24th but due to a series of unfortunate events my stay was prolonged and I finally got released on April 4th. Sorry I missed class on 5th but I was not up to it honest.



I missed lots of things round here though most of all I missed my gorgeous grandson Harry who is now 15 weeks old smiling cooing and doing all the normal stuff especially being cute..



The very unfortunate milestone I missed out on was Hannah’s 21st birthday celebrations although the family were fantastic and included me in as much as possible. I asked a friend to bake me a cake and she got a 21st balloon that was ready and waiting when Hannah arrived at a specially arranged visiting time of 10am.



The surgery very unfortunately left me with umpteen headaches and a very useless right leg , actually that is not entirely true I can walk but I look like a disabled penguin .

This will hopefully start to be sorted on Friday when I start working with the Physioterarist .



Anyway that is all I have to offer for V I am off to see Jenny in class and read other peoples offerings , please feel free to pop into class.



Ok I have a confession I actually wroye this for U last week but missed the dead line so I am very late and have edited very much.

Grandson, Grandparent Godmother..

Grandson, Grandparent Godmother..

Ok Christmas is over and the new year has started . For me this is an exciting time firstly I have a wonderful Grandson Harry John born on 26th December. 

Harry's Bunting

Secondly I am having a birthday  and I am a grandparent ( does it get any more exciting?)

And finally I have a wonderful Godmother who this morning I received a gift from ( Oops it was a birthday present) I opened it as it looked like an ordinary package , I have been very good and put other cards on mantle until the day.

Ok in reverse order I received from Sylvia the most beautiful string ( 3 actually ) of pearls they fit perfectly . I have always wanted a set of pearls and these I will treasure and wear with pride .

Being a grandparent is such an honour its not like being a Mummie ( I Know spelt differently but this was how my Nana spelt it so I want to carry on the tradition) where you HAVE to be involved it is a role where you are invited into the lives of a family that is just starting out on the roller coaster of life called family.

I am looking forward to being there for the good times and the not so good ones .

I could have covered God, Grace and generally anything but these three sum life up for me at the moment the above ones go without saying .

That's it from me short and sweet but to the point .

Please see what other Alphabet Thursday contributors have added

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.

Alphabet Thursday .......E

OK its that time of the week again, yet another round of Alphabet Thursday. This week we are on E .I f you would like to see what other people have offered please pop over and see Jenny at ALPHABET THURSDAY , she will make you feel very welcome.

OK what this week leaps out at me ?

Well I could talk about one of my wonderful children , Elizabeth but have been there had the comments , I could talk about my house called Eden House but that would mean taking photographs and its not tidy enough for that.



I could tell you about one of my favourite Christmas films but then that would spoil it for you , but I do recomend you watching it.



What about elephants ? they are the most wonderful animal on the plant ( in my opinion) and so mistreated by a minority of people.

The first time I saw and elephant for real was at London zoo when I was 9 I was amazed at their size still am really .

Of course I also love the song Nelly the Elephant and the film Dumbo.

And then of course you have the Elephant that flew Dumbo  ( I know it begins with D)



And Finally Eggs



There can not be a more useful food than an egg.

Scrambled- AJ makes the best ever



Omelet



 

There are so many ways to serve this humble food  and I am sure you the reader can come up with your own preferred way .

 

I have to say that this kind of egg is wonderful

 

 

 

Any way time to go and look at some of the other offerings.

Alphabet Thursday D is for ..........

Decorations

Hurrah it is December this means that I can officially start listening to Christmas music and watch Christmas themed films ( oops watched some already)

But more importantly I can start to decorate the house .

This week I am only sharing one picture with you and that is of Moose.

Moose Joined our family last week, He originally was a much treasured gift from My Aunt Pat to her wonderful sister Jean . Back in 1995 AJ went to Spokane for Christmas  and whilst out shopping with Aunt PAt she spotted moose and fell in love with him. Unfortunately they could not buy the display model and there were no more to be had.

Unbeknown to AJ Aunt Pat went and bought one after Christmas and Moose made the long journey to AJ intime for Christmas 1996, he has been swinging around on his parachute every Christmas since then .

Last week AJ gave him to me and he is now swinging in my window and was the first decoration I put up. I know he wont be with me for long as he has a special journey to make in the future but for now it feels that a  little part of Aunt Pat is with me.

This willbe a very hard Christmas for my stateside family as the gather together to celebrate this special time for the first time without their Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother  but I know as they decorate their houses there will be reminders around of the  wonderful person that she was

I am linking my post to Jenny over .here please pop by and visit

Bedtime bliss



Jenny Matlock is now onto the letter B in this the fourth round of Alphabet Thursday.

And for me B could not Be Better in fact it is a Brilliant letter , Because I have had a new mattress for my Bed to help my beleaguered  Back.

New Mattress




Made up bed

 On Monday morning I was up not Bright just up, I stripped  ( the bed)  and Hannah moved the old mattress for me  then it was time to wait . Brilliant the delivery van arrived and out popped my mattress that was very big .

I dutifully sign the paperwork and the mattress was placed in the hall. A friend popped in later and with Brut force moved the mattress to its final resting place ( for now at least) .

All I can add is that Monday night I was bathed  and ready for bed as soon as was a decent time and I had a very comfortable night .

I must go now as I need to read some other contributors to Alphabet Thursday Bye Bye

Alphabet Thursday Y is for...................

Well here we are again with the penultimate challenge of the third round of alphabet Thursday.

I have not contributed recently as I have not had time to read other peoples contributions and did not want it to be a one way jorney.

Anyway here we go with Jenny over at Alphabet Thursday.

These are a few of my favourite Y  things..................

A yo yo sums up life in some ways.

You get so far with something and then oops suddenly your being reelead in again. Now that is not  always a bad thing especially in the world of dieting. But when it comes to designing something I get really miffed if I cant beyond a certain stage for example I am trying to sort my Christmas present ideas and cant find a pattern for one of them aaaagghhhh.

Yellow  is my next Y offering , whilst it is not my favourite coulor it is a very restful colour and merits a mention here.

yum yums are next

Now I can honestly say I have never eaten these ( knowingly ) but I happen to know they are my sons favourites,

Yesterday

This is one of my favourite Beatles song

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is the future and today is a present.

If I was to choose a new name to call myself it would possibly  be Yolanda, I particularly like what is  shortened to Yo.

Yueltide

I have to say that this is one of my favourit times of the year, and I am looking forward to spending time blog surfing for ideas.

Well I guess this is the end of my  y list.

OOO there is one more

ok not technically a Y word but phonetically it's perfect one

Please leave comments as I am stuck at home recuperating .

 

Summer staycation

This Summer has been good . Ok the weather has not been hot and sunny all the time but neither has it rained for days on end.

I have been lucky to do a number of exciting things . so here goes .

A visit to my Godmother Sylvia

Blue Sky

Made a small  simple Ironing board for crafting

Was reminded  that I used to be SLIM

                                                  Carl & Becky with James and Liz

                                                                       Thumper

I then had a visit to Liversedge to stay with Liz and James  and Becky and Carl with Hannah Joining us on the wednesday.

This week I have gardened  ( see previous blogs)
For the rest of the holiday I am visiting AJ and my brother today, Sunday I am going to see Becky and Carl for Carls birthday,  then off to Oswestry  I have not mentioned all the visits to and from friends for cups of tea and chat , and then it is back to school .
So as I think you will agree I have had a brilliant staycation

Well this is my take on the letter S for Alphabet Thursday. I am now heading over to visit Jenny and see what other people have offered for S this week .

Alphabet Thursday from Eden House .Q is for......

QUALITY  NOT QUANTITY

Ok as some of you who know me I am overweight. ( working towards reducing it )

I am very much in favour of the above saying .

versus

I would quite happily eat  a whole dairy milk bar but enjoy far more two squares of plain good quality chocolate.

 and a glass of veuve clique  is far prefferable to cheap cava

dont get me wrong I am NOT a snob and will quite happily drink Cava

and then we have  cars

A porsche would be fantastic if money was no option  but I am very happy with the quality of my corsa  ( fingers crossed it passes the MOT today )

There is so many more comparrisons I could make but I thing you get the idea of where I am heading .

Life is about doing the best you can .

These last few days in the uk have shown that there is such a greed  around . I Know there is great hardship around but I also know that some of my family survived the war and there was real hardship then with ration books .

Maybe if the world looked at quality as opposed to quantity it would be a better place .

And I don't mean buying the most expensive just the best we can.

I am sure there are better uses of the letter Q  check out Jennys Blog  here