We have had a busy few days. Saturday was spent running around all day and doing some food shopping. I made the yummiest beer battered flake, calamari and chips for tea. It's not often we have a fry up but when we do we all love it.
Sunday began way too early for a Sunday. We headed off to meet MIL and FIL at the Outdoor expo. We saw some lovely campers, 4wd's, fishing gear etc. Made me want a holiday so badly. We fell in love with one camper. We are hoping to hire it for our next camping trip.
Check them out here. They had the best kitchens for this type of setup.
www.adventurecampers.com.au
After the expo we headed back to MIL for a bbq. Kathy and Adam came over as well. The girls got to have (maybe a final) play with the twins next door before they head off to live in Queensland.
Late afternoon we headed home. We stopped on the crest of a local hill to have a little ceremony for Nanny. I mentioned to Mum when Nanny past away that I was going to buy some helium balloons and do something ourselves seeings we couldn't go to the funeral.
We all said a few words and then let five balloons (one for each of us and one for her to keep her company) off into the windy sky. I felt so sad saying goodbye. I am sure we will see each other one day. We watched the balloons for a while before a wind gust caught them and took them into a massive pine tree. Made me smile a little as it was as if Nanny was saying she would hang around for a bit. I think it helped give us a little closure.
The balloons were still there the next day (a bit smaller though) when I went to radiotherapy.
Uncle Michael rang this morning, twice. The first time I was heading out the door to take the girls to their school buses. The second time we actually got to chat. It was lovely hearing from Uncle Michael and Auntie Beryl. Uncle Mick sent through some lovely photos of the flowers from Nanny's funeral. There was so many lovely flowers. He said it was a lovely service and they played All Things Bright And Beautiful. Thanks to Auntie Linda and Uncle Tony for going. It really means a lot.
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The flowers were so beautiful, mum would have loved them.
uncle mike rang me yesterday morning to tell us how it all went cried for ages afterwards.
He said my sister and her tony went to the service and then back to their house for the wake, it made me so happy that they went, linda said they were made to feel so welcome.
Thanks so much Linda and Tony.
This morning I was in the gardenwhen this big cukoburra came and sat on the arcway over the fish pond, I think it was my mil, it looked at me for a while and then flew off.
When mum was here a few years ago she loved the cukobuura as much as I did and she loved to fish so maybe that is why the bird was over the pond.
I like to belive that it was mum saying she was close by us in australia.
I have felt so sad since she went, she is in my thoughts each day, and today is my birthday the first one since I was 19 without a card from mum.
I had not seen a cukoburru for a long time when we lived in the country we saw them all the time, and since living here in town I have seen maybe about 4.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAL!If your MIL loved the garden Val...then that's where I believe you will encounter her presence again. I often feel that my mum is with me when I'm in the garden....she loved it and so do I....
58 years young eh' Val.....you are 4 up on me!
Lyn
I am a great beliver in the after life Lyn, so I like to think that it was mum.
She loved Australia so much, wish she could have stayed.
I dont feel 58 bugger Dawn for putting my age, she is 38 on march 15, so she is catching up.lol
Age is only a number and you are only as old as you feel, so that is why some days at work I feel 70, I can run rings around some of the young girls at work, they dont know what work is.
I am a great beliver in the after life Lyn, so I like to think that it was mum.
She loved Australia so much, wish she could have stayed.
I dont feel 58 bugger Dawn for putting my age, she is 38 on march 15, so she is catching up.lol
Age is only a number and you are only as old as you feel, so that is why some days at work I feel 70, I can run rings around some of the young girls at work, they dont know what work is.
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