Saturday 16 April 2022

Week 15 One Daily Positive and Project365. Our Grandson came to stay.

It has been a long and busy week, full of family, grandchildren and visits and ended up with us braving the Easter traffic to drive to West Wales for a short break, leaving the cat under the care of the neighbours and taking the dog with us. 

I haven't blogged this week, but I've had a lot of food for thought. Some of it I won't be blogging about as it's not about me, or it will effect the relationships I have with others. It's so frustrating to have so many real life family/friends reading my thoughts without worrying about the negative feedback.

99 Saturday Day spent food shopping, dog walking and coffee drinking. I prepared the Easter Gifts for the small people and baked some cakes and made chocolate moulds. There was some cleaning to do and general prep for Grandson's arrival.

100 Sunday Peter played golf and I ran round making beds and did the final prep for child 2, his wife and their baby's arrival. Mid afternoon they met family and I did some shopping, when Peter got home we had a roast dinner.

He's grandads little man, for sure.


101 Monday a long and busy day for our 5 month old grandson as he was taken to meet his Great Granny, Great Nanna, met 5 second cousins, his aunt, uncle and our other grandchild, his cousin, another uncle, a grandad and various other family members of various ages and relationships. Peter collected his mum from Bristol to meet me in Monmouth as I had to catch 2 buses to get to the flat to do a quick check on the repairs, we got home around 6pm and had dinner, Peter returned around 8pm. Everyone absolutely exhausted.

Grandson, DIL 2a and MIL.


102 Tuesday We started the morning baby watching for an hour and baby sitting for half an hour when he woke up while his mum and dad popped out to the retail park. We then went into Worcester for a couple of hours, the dogs got walked, baby slept and I sorted washing and some tidying up. Out for dinner in the evening.


103 Wednesday Everyone and their dog left after lunch, the cat took a few hours to realise there was no mad Molly dog in her home anymore. We made a half hearted attempt to tidy, wash and clean, before giving in and just watching the telly. |I spent some time in my craft room, putting the finishing touches to next doors Easter gifts.

There were tears when this little man left. Mine of course.


104 Thursday Tidied up, washing on and hoovered. Off to visit child 1 and drop off her Easter Egg. Onto collect mum, DIL and grandchild for a coffee and back to mums house for a bit, then called in at our old neighbours in the Forest of Dean to drop off Easter eggs, home at 7pm and evening spent ironing, packing and watching The Bubble on Netflix. Having worked in a bubble during covid and having had endless PCRs and having to quarantine, it was a funny movie in a bitter, sweet way.


105 Friday Set off around 9am on a short break to West Wales it appears no one was travelling there through the country and the roads were quiet. We were going to meet up with some friends, but their kids came down with a stomach bug and they cut their trip short.

For fear of waking early, but I failed. Ended up with a thicker blanket to block the light with a number of pegs to keep it in place.


Nothing on the blog this week.

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14 comments:

  1. Suzanne, it looks like you had such a wonderful time with your family and your sweet little grandson. You are just glowing with love in these photos! I hear you about having to watch what you write on your blog sometimes. I use my blog sort of like an online journal, so I have to be aware of who may be reading it. In fact, there is something that I have been wanting to write about (because I need to for my own process), but I was afraid it would upset my mother-in-law too much if she read it and she reads all of my blog posts! I did end up talking to her about the subject matter this week while she has been visiting so I think will be to write that bit now. I hope you have a blessed Easter, my friend!

    Shelbee

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    1. From what I read of your blog you don't hold much back anyway, which I admire. Hope you'll be able to write freely

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  2. It sounds like a busy week for you and the treats for the small people look fab, especially the cakes. How lovely that you had your son and his family visiting. It sounds like you's all had a fab time together.
    I hope you are having a nice break away x

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    1. We had a great visit with our grandson and an amazing trip

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  3. Sounds like it was a really lovely big family week seeing lots of people. Glad you were able to spend time with grandchild. We're off to south wales on Monday, so hoping the traffic isn't too bad for us either

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    1. The visits were lovely, hope you have a great break also

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  4. Oh my goodness, you have been busy. Your grandson is getting so big and congratulations on the next one - you must be so excited

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    1. Sorry that's my bad writing, baby's arrival meant the existing one coming to visit

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  5. What a busy week! Your grandson is beautiful. How lovely to spend time with him. Enjoy your break away!

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  6. How lovely to have spent so much time and seen so many of your family! Love all the baby pics. #project365

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  7. Sounds like a lovely week full of visits from family. Hope that you are managing to work through the things that are on your mind. I find it helps to blog things out too but it's hard when you can't do always do so. Your little grandson is adorable. How lovely to have a few days with him. Hope you had a nice break in Wales. #project365

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    1. Wales was great, so nice to holiday without a flight involved. Mind is getting emptied slowly

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