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magictreehouse) wrote2007-09-14 09:49 am
magictreehouse) wrote2007-09-14 09:49 am
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We are family
This week's been a pretty quiet one really. I gave my family a ring on Wednesday night to catch up on all of the news and James mum came round last night. James' parents have just come back from Iceland so she came bearing gifts :D A cuddly puffin, a bookmark and a cow pencil case, which we can use for our future studies! Unfortunately for her though, which she was in Iceland she slipped and tore the ligaments in her ankle so she's on crutches at the moment :s. Still she had a good time. Much like James actually, who had been for a drink with an old work mate beforehand and come home tipsy before his Mum arrived. Disgraceful behaviour.
In other family news, my Great-Grandma has been taken to hospital. She lives with my Grandma and has been bed-ridden for years and suffers from Alzeimer's so the whole thing is quite sad I guess. I've never been as close to my Dad's side of the family though so I'm not as hard hit by it all as I could be. That's not to say that I'm not affected by it at all though. I was thinking about her last night. Stuff like the family party we had when she was 90 (she's 95 now) and visiting her at her house before she lived with my Grandma. My Grandma's obviously upset and part of can't help but think, once she doesn't have to look after Nanna Curzon then she can enjoy her retirement. I don't mean that in an awful way, it's just that my Grandma has two brothers who've not been all that supportive in the looking after of my Great-Grandma and so she's been left with the task alone really. Anyway, enough of that, whatever happens, 95 is an amazing age to live too and she is a great-great-Grandma three times over so that's nothing to be scoffed at!
Right, happier stuff, Lucy is visiting us tonight which I'm really looking forward too. I shall be buying some vodka, peach schnapps and fruit juices in order to make some crazy cocktails, and we will be raiding those charity shops tomorrow! Work is hectic so I really need this weekend!
In other family news, my Great-Grandma has been taken to hospital. She lives with my Grandma and has been bed-ridden for years and suffers from Alzeimer's so the whole thing is quite sad I guess. I've never been as close to my Dad's side of the family though so I'm not as hard hit by it all as I could be. That's not to say that I'm not affected by it at all though. I was thinking about her last night. Stuff like the family party we had when she was 90 (she's 95 now) and visiting her at her house before she lived with my Grandma. My Grandma's obviously upset and part of can't help but think, once she doesn't have to look after Nanna Curzon then she can enjoy her retirement. I don't mean that in an awful way, it's just that my Grandma has two brothers who've not been all that supportive in the looking after of my Great-Grandma and so she's been left with the task alone really. Anyway, enough of that, whatever happens, 95 is an amazing age to live too and she is a great-great-Grandma three times over so that's nothing to be scoffed at!
Right, happier stuff, Lucy is visiting us tonight which I'm really looking forward too. I shall be buying some vodka, peach schnapps and fruit juices in order to make some crazy cocktails, and we will be raiding those charity shops tomorrow! Work is hectic so I really need this weekend!