So here I am again new year and time to update my blog and actually make a positive effort to keep up with it!
I changed the colors and have changed the title, and have a new outlook on life because for me things can only better, so pull up a chair make yourself a cuppa! and read the ramblings of this stay at home Mom!
So what has happened in my life since I last blogged, apart from where the bloody hell do I begin, and without writing a novel, I have been a busy bee. I hit the Craft Fairs this past Holiday Season, and I had great ones and dismal ones but it was certainly an eye opener. In the words of my hubby "I have my wife back" From the last few weeks of November and the most of December, every weekend I was packing the car up and heading out at un-earthly hours of the morning! I had got the loading of the car down to a fine art. I got some great tips and advice from the people I met and even picked up a new craft along the way. (which I will share in another blog)
I basically through myself into the Craft Fairs, because sadly at the end of October my Dad lost his battle with cancer and passed away. For anyone who has lost someone, especially a parent it is bloody hard, and for me knowing that my Dad is no longer at the end of the phone has been a struggle. I am so glad the boys got to know their Granddad, and have some fabulous memories of when he came to visit. For me I am taking each day as it comes, I have good and bad days, were something will upset me and remind of my Dad, then I will have a good laugh because something I do was so like him. So for now the world has lost one of it's great characters and I will keep my Dad forever in my thoughts.
Do you ever wonder why life just goes the way it does sometimes? I always use to say that everything happens for a reason, but sometimes life is life and we take the good with the bad. These last couple of weeks have taken a toll on my emotions, and I can only look to the up coming weeks and hope life can get better.
An up date on my Dad.......................................I have come to the conclusion that my Dad is a cat, the man has 9 bloody lives, as my brother said to me "you can't keep the bugger down!" They moved Dad this weekend to the Cancer Ward, and he seems to be doing a lot better, they are keeping an eye on him and seeing how the medication for the seizures is doing. My Mom mentioned yesterday that he managed to move his left leg and raise his left arm, which is really good. Right now it is taking it a day at a time. I did make a blanket for my Dad, he loves teddy bears and I found this perfect fleece material for him, so that and some cookies and the boys made cards today for Granddad will be shipped off this week.
So hearing that Dad was doing a lot better my week had started to brighten up, and low and behold I find myself acting like a distraught teenager yesterday! I really have to slap myself across the face for acting this way, cause when I start to tell you why, some who read this will probably be laughing at me and roll their eyes. A mean I am 33 years young! a mother of 2 wonderful boys and I cried like a boyfriend had just broken my heart!! All because the New Kids on the Block concert had been canceled here in Albuquerque. YES I am a fan and was a fan all those years ago, I use to drive my parents nuts over posters, and merchandise and going to the concerts, in fact my Dad took me to my first NKOTB concert back in the day. So reality check for me, I am not 13 and life goes on.......................................................
