31st January - 2nd February 2025 Post Comment Love

Welcome back to #PoCoLo with Stephanie from Bosworth.Life and I.

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Finally January has come to an end, it feels like it's lasted forever, why/how does that happen every year?

I really need to think about getting out in the garden soon, but it's just too cold and wet for that. I'm enjoying getting out and about on the weekends. 

Saturday I'm going out for brunch with a friend from work and on Sunday I'm out with my oldest Twitter/X friend for our postponed (due to unexpected snow) annual Christmas walk and lunch. We're meeting this year up near Kenilworth Castle. Wellies and waterproofs will be required.

February is going to be an emotional month for us. We have the arrival child 2 and his wife 2nd child, a new grandchild, due any day now and we're off to Northern Ireland to visit child 4, his wife and our 3 year old grandson.

It would have been Stephanie's 37th Birthday this coming Tuesday. It's a difficult time for us as you can imagine, we're still unsure whether we should celebrate it and if so, how? We will acknowledge the day of course, but Stephanie was never aware of her birthday, what an actual birthday was. It was just another visit from us, with a fruit shoot and something to eat, somewhere other than her home with people she trusted to be out with, but no concept of us as mum and dad or even what a mum and dad were. 

This was her 36th Birthday last year out for a meal in Gloucester.

Presents were hard as if she couldn't eat it, once it had been up to her mouth, she would just drop it on the floor or lob it, so it was clothing or toiletries. The number of times we'd all get hit with musical toys, or she'd injure herself with an ornament we'd tried buying her to make the room look nice. Her needs were very basic, but she was happy and if she was happy, then so were we.

She just liked being out, in the supermarket, with people, with music, noises, any noises, pushing a trolley, walking around and eating cake.

So that's what we'll do on Tuesday, we'll go to Caffè Nero, we'll have coffee, we'll have a slice of cake, we'll raise a fruit shoot in a toast to Stephanie, then we'll lob the fruit shoot in the air and wish her a happy birthday.

I really appreciate all the photos we have of Stephanie, I wish I had more videos. I need to plough through all the old holiday VHS soon.

We'd also appreciate your help spreading the #PoCoLo word on Twitter, tag us and we'll RT. You can find us on twitter here: Stephanie - @BosworthLife and Suzanne - @ChickenRuby 

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