Thought for today...

I had this posted to me today on facebook hope you like it....

Sometimes you gotta runaway
so you can see who will run after you,
sometimes you gotta talk quieter
just to see who's listening,
sometimes you gotta make a wrong decision
to see who's there to fix it,
sometimes you gotta let go of the one
you love just to see if they
love you enough to come back.

source unknown....

Happy 5th birthday Libby xx

And happy new haircut i love it....party girl on Saturday....aren't you lucky....love you loads xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Casper

I slept at my sisters last night....they are trying to look after me...bless. Had my camara at the ready....Kelly on her lap top.....Vicki's wedding photo.... [note trev's hair do lol ]....her kids growing up.... and casper Vicki's cat....who's not well!!!!

Following unprovoked violence

My son Lee was assaulted in a totally unprevoked attack and has been in hospital, so i have quite a gap in my posts....it's Libbys birthday tommorow so i have added a photo of her prezzies i only managed to buy today. I am hoping she will enjoy growing her own pumpkin etc., Her party is saturday so more photo's to come she will be staying with me after her birthday until Tuesday...can't wait.

Five weeks before my new granddaughter Casey is due, luckily Sam did not go into early labour over lee.

Before Vin left for France i bought a pretty pink plant pot, Vin came back with a geranium which has turned out the very same pink as the pot....so i have added a photo.

Also a Tommy soldier for Vin over in France.

Thought for today:-

"If you cannot change your fate, change your attidude."

Amy Tan. Author.

France.

I booked my ticket on National express to leave for Lille on the 20th of June this morning. I set off at 00.25 and arrive 14.45 French time, when i hope Vin will be there to pick me up.

Vin left for france a week ago, our friends arrive starting yesterday for the bank holiday to start work on the crater. I am finding it strange being here when they are all over there, and a bit of a cheat because the main part of the hard work is done this weekend. The fun part of it is also hard to miss....i shall have a lot of making up to do when i get there in both fun and work lol.

'Kelly's' Hair Show

Wednesday night as promised we went to watch Kelly in all her splendour!! I picked up libby as a suprise, as Kelly had said she would like her to go. I thought school would have stood in the way but it didn't and Libby couldn't wait. In my rush again i forgot the camera....so Trev took his.... Libby's watching from the corner sat on her chair with her hair platted, which has since been cut to a bob....have not yet seen it.....Libby's idea....so much for hair shows lol....

Kelly looked fab there were some quite outragious hairstyles...at one point Libby shouted out she looks like the witch from the Lion King lol. Kelly was very brave and strutted her stuff really well, we were dead proud of her.

Thursday i took my lap top to Vicki's to download the photo's, but was that taken up with watching my mum on the wii fit that i ran out of time and had to set off to Lee's. My mum was so funny and hates to be beaten, she is quite a fit lady for 70. Vicki has photo's of mum doing her yoga poses, which my mum thinks have been erased i would love to post one but my mum would never forgive me lol.

Middle son

I have finally managed to get hold of a couple of photo's of Lee with his partner Sam, as well as a photo of Sam's son Harry....who's seven. It won't be long before their baby arrives...Sam is looking really well and we are all excited. The baby is due on independence day her name will be Casey.... I have told Lee that's when he will lose his independence lol.

Lee managed to get himself a ticket for the Leeds match at Wembley on Sunday after queuing 19hrs. He was offered £600.00 from someone at the back of the queue, but wouldn't have accepted any amount.

Thought for today:-

"Your greatest resource is your time"

Brian Tracy, Business Author.

....and life goes on!!!!

It was grandmas funeral yesterday, all the grandchildren and in laws were watching over grandmas offspring....i cant refer to them as children because none of us are that anymore....

It was great to see the family all together...there was the usual out cry of we really shouldn't wait for something like this to happen before we get together...and its true. When our grandma was younger and grandad was alive we all used to get together.... particularly boxing day....and it was good. Grandma as they said in church yesterday did enjoy cooking and was very good at it.

Some people say "you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family". I am quite happy with my grandma's legacy...as my cousin Jeannette put it yesterday, and if i was able to choose for myself i would choose everyone of them to be my family, they all have their own special places in my heart all for very different reasons.

The organ left a lot to be desired, it made a high pitched sound, so loud nothing else could be heard...i for one was grateful in a way because non of us are singers...in fact i doubt that hardly anyone did, although lots of mouths were moving....if i had tried to sing they would have either left or asked me to leave!!!! grandad Brewer used to play an organ it was probably his way of helping us along...lol.

When i first entered the church i saw a group of people and almost hoped they would be a choir.... I am calling it a church but must say i was disappointed with the re build, i haven't been inside since it was burnt down in an arson attack a number of years ago, it doesn't feel like a church anymore. I used to attend this church on a Sunday evening as a teenager it was beautiful back then.

Afterwards we were all invited back to Waterton Hall, this used to be Walton Hall, and was a maternity home, i was born there. Legend has it that a baby was thrown over the bridge into the river, so parents weren't allowed their babies until the bridge had been crossed.....We all did our catching up, and amazed at the children who are now adults and initially had not been recognised. The food was lovely. My aunt Pat and Uncle Nigel had done all the work of arranging everything and had done a brilliant job...

Yesterday when i picked up my sisters and my own flowers i had intended taking a photo to post on here, but my mind was too full of the day ahead and i forgot, i had spoken with Nichola the evening before and also on the morning of the funeral about what to put on my card, she came up with a beautiful quote ....which i will add at the end of my post today.. Nichola is always there with support without my asking...in fact her support is there sometimes when i haven't realised i needed it but did.

The flowers were beautiful i had asked for Lilly's and she did me proud. Vicki's were lovely too, a mix of carnations....a favourite of mine. The flowers needed to arrive early at the chapel of rest, Vicki and myself took them....up to that point i had decided i wasn't going in to see grandma but when we arrived i asked if i could....i had things i needed to say and hope she was in there listening. She looked very tired, it had been a long time since her passing, but i was able to over look that because of what i needed to say. I am pleased my mum chose not go as she had intended to do.

I was going to post a photo of my cousin Lisa on her wedding day, which took place recently {due to mix up of communication i was not aware it had taken place until after the event, which upset both myself and Lisa}. She looked beautiful in keeping with all of my cousins on their wedding days.... i have some very pretty cousins, who take good care of themselves. I have saved the photo's from Lisa's email somewhere and will search again later to add them to this post.

This morning i woke early, before the sun had chance to rise, i watered the garden....i was feeling pretty guilty as my four very busy night shifts and the funeral meant i have not had the time to keep up to it, so i am sure it was very grateful. Tonight my niece has invited me to a hair show, she is learning hairdressing at college and has to dress up for the event....so the camera will be well poised and photo's ready to post tomorrow.

A quote {or as i call them..my thought..} for today:-

The glory of the world is transitory,
and we should not measure our lives by it,
but the choice we make to follow our personal legend,
to believe in our Utopia's and to fight for our dreams.
We are all protagonists of our own lives,
and it is the anonymous heroes who leave the deepest mark.

Paulo Coelho. Author.

Keeping busy + more photo's

My grandmas funeral is on Tuesday, until then we are all keeping busy and trying to keep my mum occupied too. Vin and myself went to my sisters where my mum was spending the day yesterday, she was quite taken up with the Nintendo wii....Vicki is now a proud owner after hearing so much about mine....we then took her to see the boys and Libby....followed by a bit of shopping for the garden, then back to my parents where we spent time in their garden.....the gardener is doing a lovely job, finally after dropping my mum off we spent a few hours at my sisters before returning home

Today mums at home potting her plants. Vin needed some tomato plant food so we took a trip to Ackworth garden centre and came back with more than we had planned lol.

The photo's hear show some of what we bought, what i have potted,[apparently i have potted a runner bean instead of a flower out of the greenhouse lol].

I managed to photograph a portion of Jades garden,looking pretty now the tree now has blossom.

The vegatable plot is looking good it is only small but has plenty growing. The apple tree that vin cut right down because of disease looks to be thriving again, and the plant i posted a picture of the other day, which came back from near death looks even better today so i couldn't resist another photo to show it off.

I love the new pots we bought today especially the welly to go with the boot.

Apparently my grandma loved lilies, i like the orange ones we bought today.

Libby went to the woods with Paul at the weekend this is a lovely photo of her in her wellies....its a bit blurred because i couldn't transfer the original from my phone.

Today's thought:-

"Never be in a hurry, do everything quietly and in a calm spirit".

Saint Francis De Sales.

Porcelain figure

"Quest for life" has arrived i am really pleased with her. The cabinet she will be standing on hasn't arrived though. I will have to put her safe from small hands for now.

Five generations

Can you tell my mum hates her photo being taken?

My mum with my gran

Second marriage

My grandma later met Bernard who became my grandfather, pictured next to them are my aunts and uncle from that marriage, Pat, Peter, and Cheryl. All the children were brought up to together and are pictured together on my grandparents silver wedding anniversary.

My grans early years

My grandma was a nurse during the second world war, she also liked motor bikes which was what attracted her to my grandfather Jack/John. Next to her wedding photo is a photo of my mum and uncle brian, both from this marriage and another one of my grandma, uncle Brian and my mum as a baby.

Pink roses

Above is a picture of pink roses for my grandma, her front garden was full of them.... mostly red. Our roses haven't bloomed yet so i was unable to post one of our own....so i chose these....when i was a child Sunday afternoons were spent collecting manure for the roses. After our sunday dinner, cooked by my grandma, my grandma, grandad, Cheryl and me always took a ride out into the country for the manure for the roses. My grandad was always proud of his roses. After my grandad died, over twenty five years ago, my grandma managed the garden helped by my brother and other family members then finally a gardener.

[I always knew my step grandad as grandad, and didn't meet my natural one until i was twenty, my natural one died within a few months of meeting him at a very early age of sixty five from a heart attack whilst moving from Derbyshire to Yorkshire to be closer to us.]

The photo in the photo below where i am stood in the front garden is where the roses grew.

Grace

My grandmother passed away this morning. She was 95yrs young. Until this morning we had five generations, my grandma, my mum, myself, my eldest son and my grandaughter.

My grandma had five children...from the oldest... uncle Brian, my mum Marlene, auntie Pat, uncle Peter and Cheryl...[who i only call auntie in fun because there are only eighteen months between us].

Then there are fourteen grandchildren of which i am the oldest.

Followed by thirteen great grand children of which my birth daughter Nichola is the oldest.

Libby my granddaughter is her only great great grandchild. She has just missed out on seeing her second one due in July to my middle son.

My grandma stands between her two sons in the above photo, Brian to her left and Peter to her right.

The group photo is of my grandma's five children taken a long while ago. [the photo's are blurred because they are a photo of a photo].

At the back of my grandma's house you can see my mum sat with my sister on her knee as a baby, me to her right and my brother to her left. The other photo is taken at the front of her house i am stood in the middle with Cheryl to my right and my brother Lewis to my left.

The house is very significant to me apart from holding lots of memories, it was built by my great grand parents. They built two large semi detatched houses one for my grandma and and one her brother Harry who sold his many years ago. My grandma lived in hers until two years ago, unfortunatly it hasn't stayed in the family and i do find it quite difficult when i pass it on my way to work.

I will post further photo's of my gran with my grandfather and step grandfather as well as a photo of the five generations.

My thought for today:-

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined"

Henry David Thoreau. Philosopher.