JUST A LITTLE FLOODAND A NEW BABY

I have been getting up very early these past few weeks to drive No.one grandson to catch a ride to Trade School

Yesterday morning ,after a night of very heavy, very constant rain , we could not get out of our drive way due to the water across the road

By 8.30 it had receded enough for us to get out, but only in hubbys four wheel drive

Very unusual for our part of the world

Our house is on the top of a hill so we were fine .but some of the neighbours werent so lucky

They are all saying how bad it must have been for the people of Qld and Northern Victoria who were much worse off than them , even though some have them have extensive damage

Grandson was two hours late for Trade School and of course missed his ride so I drove him all the way and waited for him to finish at 4.00pm

No real hardship as I got to visit my new "great grandchild "

in hospital

She is not really my grandchild but her Mum has decided thats what Iam to be

Lorraines husband Jim's son and daughter in law had a beautiful baby girl on Tuesday morning Lorraine was looking forward to being a step grandmum

The babies name is Kittie Elizabeth Jaine

Jane is her Mums name but they chose to spell it this way for My Aine

I was delighted that they chose to do this

Isnt she cute?

Iam making the applique quilt for her bed once she gets into one of course

I have plenty of time to get it finished

Half an album completed

It turned out to be quite a good day yesterday

I did get a bit emotional but it helped that there were other people around

There are so many gorgeous photos of the wedding

My photography skills are not the best, but I hope you can see a little of what I completed

It did help me feel closer to her

Today Iam working in the garden

Just taking a little break

Iam spreading woodchips

MEMORANZA DAY

Tomorrow I will be attending National Scrap booking Day

It will be very emotional for me as I will be working on a wedding album for Jim

When Lorraine got married in 2009 I did a wedding album for myself

We were all ways going to work on doing her album together but some how she just never had the energy to do it

A few weeks prior to her leaving us she said " Mum I think you had best do my album for Jim "

So tomorrow I will start This album

I havent been able to bring myself to do it ,So hopefully tomorrow I will make a good start on it

I have some lovely photos to work with and some lovely memories to go with them

It was the happiest day of her life

A few weeks prior to the wedding , she was told that the cancer had spread and she had a brain tumour

She had 13 months of happiness as Jims wife

We miss her so much

A Little Applique

I havent been Blogging much of late

Iam struggling to get on with my life It is very hard

When I first started Blogging I kinda used the writing to help me with my feelings , then Lyn and all the wonderful Bloggers made me the beautiful support quilts

A friend asked me at the time what I wrote on my blog to make people feel so sorry for me that they made the quilts for me

I didnt want people to feel sorry for me so I havent been writing so much about my loss

The other day while reading a friends Blog she wrote how much writing it down helped her, so I have decided I will do a bit more of that It doesnt matter if no one reads it If it helps me then I will do it

I have been doing a bit of applique

I enjoy it