Photos of Christmas 2019

Christmas

Hello blogland, I have been either busy ot had no motivation but here I am on Saturday morning at last writing something. Christmas Eve Tim & I Mum's and I took Jeannie's presents over and as luck would have it she was there and I was able to give it to her.

Sue was also there and I was annoyed with myself that I didn't think to take her present with me, a friend of hers was mowing the lawn for Mum.

Christmas Day I was up at 5.40am and Tim got up and left for work, Tim didn't want to exchange gifts till Boxing Day when the girls and grandchildren will be here. Jessica drove me to see Dad, I left a card my sister Sandy had been and decorated his grave with tinsel and ornaments, it looked good. She then drove me to Mum's where I gave out gifts to family members.

Moving on to Boxing Day, when I went to do the veggies for lunch I found Tim had already peeled and cut them the night before and left them sitting in a bowl of water in the fridge. I then gave Tim his gifts from me but was unable to find my gift from him. I am still unable to find it.

Tim cleaned the lounge-room and moved the dinning room table and then he cooked all the veggies. We had a baked lunch with BBQ chicken all our girls and grandchildren except for Blain who was at his Dad's.

Everyone seemed to liked their gifts.

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Funtional Tremor my ass

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• Partial or complete paralysis.
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• Decreased alertness

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First Date

Below is what Mum told me about her first date with Dad.

On the 4^th July 1958 Dad asked her to the movies and he rang his Aunty Joyce and asked her if she could bring him a clean pair of trousers and she did. Side note, Aunty Joyce never drove and had to catch a bus into Newcastle and another one back to Walllsend a distance of 12k's as the crow flies. Aunty Joyce didn't think Mum was good enough for Dad.

It was Mum who took care of Aunty Joyce in her old age.

Struggles

I am just so fed up with my body and all that I struggle with day after day.

I have trouble with how in my head I can still do things but when I try I can't and it takes so long at times for me to do stuff.

I want the kitchen, laundry and bathroom floors washed

I have bags of old clothes to go to the old clothes bins

There are stuff I would liked stored in the shed but I can't do it.

Little things I know but frustrating

Happy Birthday Dad

Good morning everyone, I didn't get around to writing a post yesterday, because it would have been my Dad's 77^th birthday. So Mum and 4 of here children and a couple of her grandchildren went to the cemetery were we stayed for about an hour before going to the club for lunch. While out I had a couple of drinks a Southo & Coke and a bit of my sister's Jack & Coke.

My dad was born in1942 the second child of Richard & Enid, from the age of 8 he was mostly raised by his aunt & uncle as well as his dad who was always around. His parents split when he was 8.

Both his parents remarried and he has 3 half siblings as well as 5 full siblings, although part of a big family, they were not a close family.

However, when he married mum that changed, she was closer to her siblings and parents and when mum & dad had a family close-knit became the norm. Dad loved and treated all his children and grandchildren as if each one was special.

Dad was a strong hard working man, who supported his family taking us on a family holiday most years. Dad used to get up and have breakfast with the family every day he was home, this started because one month he had seen us kids only a couple of times., As he was in bed when we got up and at work when we got home from school.

I can tell you Dad would loved to have seen how many people turned up to visit him on his birthday. My sister Sue went before or after work and my nieces Temika & Denni both wrote letters to Poppy.

Family Functions

My sister is turning 50 and has arranged a party for herself, nothing wrong with that.

However, this has made me thing of my 50^th which was not a big deal and neither was Tim's for that matter. We did see all our girls and grandchildren but I was a little disappointment that no one arranged a party for me but that is life.

Tim said he didn't want anything like a party but I do think he was a tad disappointed.

When we get to a certain age, we often think our children should plain a party for us, I don't know why we think that but have been told that many people think that way.

I also been thinking how at times our children may be fighting or not talking at the time of a party usually over some minor thing and you hear if so and so is going I will not, this is distressing for a parent.

Thankfully in my family things are different and generally speaking everyone turns up to a family function.

As most people know I am part of a large family being the eldest of 5 children and even if my girls don't feel like attending a function if they are invited or if it is for me or Tim they turn up if only for half an hour.

Dad used to say how nice it was that so many of his grandchildren would turn up to a party that we had for him.

So I hope my sister has a good turn out at her party, it will be an emotional time as it is the first birthday that we will have without dad. She does have 4 children and 7 grandchildren as well as all her siblings, she will need her children to help her cope with not having her dad there.