Lazy Sunday

We have had a quiet relaxing Sunday. It is cool today, and we have had a little misty rain on and off today. It is so nice to look out the window and watch the rain falling. Over the last few days the grass has started to turn green.

The kids have watched movies, had a friend over, we have surfed the web and just vegged. A perfect Sunday.

Auntie Beryl emailed the other day to let me know that Nanny has left hospital and gone to live in a hospice. If anyone wants her addy or phone number just email me. Makes me sad to think she can no longer live at home. She will enjoy the company of all the other ladies and gents there though.

Here are some quotes I like that I plan on including in my breast cancer journey album.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. --Katherine Hepburn

I wanted a perfect ending. . . Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
-Gilda Radner

And these ones taken from A Pocketful Of Sequins.

Courage is showing one's face in public when one feels like a plucked chook. Without a hair on one's head not an eyelash or eyebrow, but with a smile on one's face. Helen, 59 (lol laugh at this one, my eyebrows and eyelashes are returning as is the hair on my head. I have 1cm blond fluff and short stubbly darker hair following. At this stage it's looking very similar to the colour my hair was)

Live everyday, do things that make your heart sing, and stuff the housework!! Catherine 42 (love this. just have to convince myself I can live without doing so much housework. I am really trying though and enjoy not letting it rule my life quite so much)

It is more important for my sons (daughters) to remember me sitting on the beach, glass of wine in hand, watching them surf as the sun sets, than in a sterile home full of beds made, dishes done, squeaky clean windows and mopped floors. Marlene 48

Laughter gets you through the hard times. I wanted to write on the back of my bald head: shit happens Robyn 47 (I love this one. Makes me laugh. Jason has tried to convince me many times to let him draw on my head. He would like to add some eyes, mouth etc, we did consider shaving a face when we clipped my hair off lol)

Take one day at a time but live it like there is no tomorrow, Robyn 58 (funnily enough a long time before I began my journey I named my blog One Day At A Time. Little did I realise that it would mean so much more and help me take each day one day at a time through chemo and now radiotherapy)

Symbols of a survivor, my scars I wear proudly as badges won in battle

Difficult journeys can offer us the chance to learn that we are loved and cared about. I count myself fortunate to have had this chance to know so clearly and so strongly. Kerry 59 (I have been amazed at how so many people have stepped forward to lend a hand, an ear or let us know how much they care)

The best thing to say to someone who is suffering or in pain is, 'I know, my darling, it sucks"

Ok enough for now. Don't want to bore you with too many. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend.