Thank you…

It took me a few days to press “publish” on the last post.  It’s not that I didn’t want to share, it’s just that it was scary… putting that extremely personal stuff out there.

You all enveloped me in a comforting hug.  Confirming, yet again, that you are my soft place to fall.

So… after all of that… it’s pretty hard to think of a blog post for today.

I am NOT, however, going to fail at this NaBloPoMo thingy!!

I will give you a few updates.

My Mum is feeling much better.  Her eye has recovered, although sadly her vision hasn’t.  Her injuries from the fall are still painful, but she’s graduated from a zimmer frame to using two walking sticks!  I’m very proud of her!

My dear friend is still the same.  We’re waiting for the new medication to kick in.  Apparently she’s got a couple of more weeks until she knows whether it’s working or not.

We did our usual Saturday night thing, and the boys and I picked her up and took her to her home, where we all had pizza and messed about before driving her back to the hospital..

My boys have been bickering non-stop for the last couple of days.  It is driving me batty!  I remember that my brothers’ were like that with each other at that same age.  They were SO bad, in fact, that my parents sent one of them to board at school.  They were in the same year (no, not twins, just 13 months apart) and one got to go home each evening and the other had to go to the boarders’ house.  I used to think that that was a terribly cruel thing to have done, but now that my two are at each others’ throats, I can understand that the desire to separate them can be overwhelming.

Well, I can’t afford boarding school.

Perhaps I’ll invest in some earplugs instead.