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Cats and Casts, My Sunday Snapshot

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This has been a real difficult week (Seems to be the way lately) but before I’d get to the icky photo I’d start with a nice one. Trust one of my lovely cats to give me this opportunity. Ash, how on earth did you manage to stay sleeping half hanging off the settee?

Cats, Ash fast asleep lying half on the settee

So that’s the cute bit over, let’s get on to the real world.

Casts

Last Sunday I posted a photo of lovely Easter Eggs and it was a lovely sunny day. We had a delicious dinner planned and all was good. We had lunch then I sent the Little Man into the garden to get some sunshine and watch his Dad plant a tree for me.

Within five minutes of him being out I heard a blood curdling scream. The Little Man had climbed on the slide to watch his Dad, slipped and fell. He’d only fallen about two feet, but he had landed on his arm in a bad way. We had to call an ambulance and he was carted off.

So much for a lovely Easter Day!

This is my Little Man shortly after having his cast put on.

The Little Man in a hospital bed with his arm in a plaster cast.

It’s been a tough week and we’ve not had much sleep. The Little Man is grumpy and in pain and it’s hard to see your little one suffer. He will get through this though, I keep telling him things can’t get any worse, they can only get better.

I hate seeing my children suffer, who doesn’t. The cats can be a great comfort with a good old snuggle and purr to make you feel better. We need to look on the bright side, even if it’s just a daft cat.

I have lots of posts about cats for you to purr-use

Fortunately, I don’t have many photo’s of casts.

RachelSwirl

This Week it’s Easter Eggs for My Sunday Snapshot.

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Happy Easter! Here are some of our Easter Eggs. Other’s had been hidden for the Little Man who is the only one who wanted to hunt for his eggs this year. And of course, the grown ups have some eggs too. In fact, I don’t think we’ll bother with food today, we can just live on chocolate can’t we!

photo of Easter eggs arranged on a shelf with an Easter bunny and Easter Card.

The photo also includes a little bunny I crocheted a couple of years ago, and lovely card that my Little Man made at school.

Missed Week

We have had a rather strange week, I was in hospital every day for my infusions and this time they really affected me. I’m not sure what happened. They did them as slow as usual and I drank tons of water, but my body wasn’t happy at all and I’m just recovering from a two day migraine sent from hell. I literally could not hold my head up. I’ve spent so much time sleeping these past two days because that’s about all I could manage to do, and it was only because of the painkillers that I could manage that. Inbetween sleeping I’ve been watching television. I’ve watched Harry Potter and yesterday I lay on the settee and watched Doris Day in ‘Move Over Darling’ What a timeless fun film.

Today it’s Easter Sunday and the sun is shining. For the first time in days I can look at my computer screen and sit upright without pain. I’m not going to push it though, I’ll be logging off soon. We have a big Sunday dinner to cook, but we won’t be eating until this evening. Graham will do most of the work, he’s becoming a really good cook. But we have had a lot of take outs this week thanks to my being ill and Graham being busy, so a nice home cooked meal will be squeezed in amongst the chocolate! I’m sad I didn’t get to bake my Simnel Cake.

I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks of no school or home school and I’m hoping we don’t get the snow we have been promised as I would love it to stay sunny enough to start some work on the garden. We have two weeks so fingers tightly crossed.

Enjoy Your Easter Eggs and happy holidays!

RachelSwirl

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Sunset – My Sunday Snapshot

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This week I saw this amazing sunset from window. Of course by the time I’d reached my phone to take a photo the sky was already changing. The orange glow that completely filled the back of the trees had already started to disappear. But still, you can see the orange behind the trees, you’ll have to take my word for it that it was much more impressive before.

sunset behind the trees

Sunset Life

It’s been a difficult week and it’s not going to be much easier next week, but there is hope in sight. If we get the lovely weather promised during the Easter holiday I’ll be looking forward to watching the sunset from my garden.

So much is going on at the moment, it’s all very stressful. And it’s my hospital week, so that doesn’t make things easier. I just want some peace, some calm and I hope we can achieve that somehow together.

I long for a good night’s sleep. I want to go down like the sun and let the moon take over for a while.

Happier times are ahead. I’m going to buy as much chocolate as I can for Easter, make a Simnel cake and get the kids to make some Easter Biscuits and Cake. We are going to have a sugar overload and it will be delightful. Of course, with all that sugar I can forget about sleep for a while.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone else’s Sunday Snapshot.

RachelSwirl

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My Sunday Snapshot, Yay! Spring has arrived!

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Spring has officially arrived…yay! I’d love to show you photos of flowers growing in my garden…but there are none. Well, Graham said he spotted one yesterday but I haven’t been able to get out yet. So. Here’s one I made earlier!

Spring has arrived crochet flower

At least this one won’t die on me.

I have a longing now, an urge to get out into nature, see the flowers, feel the breeze. I guess we are all waiting for lock down to be over. I don’t think I’ll be rushing out into crowds but I can’t wait for the weather to get a little warmer so I can go out and enjoy some freedom.

The kids have been out at least. They have been back at school and the Little Man has been spending a lot of time outdoors. His school is encouraging a lot of outdoor learning, no matter what the weather. He’s mostly enjoying it but he comes home covered in mud almost every day. On Friday he has Forest School and this week it had been wet so it was particularly muddy. One of the other children had thought it funny to have a mud fight with my Little Man. He was not impressed, he even had mud in his hair. He came home feeling really upset. We talked about one of his school values, resilience. Accept, Reflect, Move On. Even though he’d been upset we looked at it from the other child’s point of view, they thought it was funny, so the Little Man had to try and understand this even though he didn’t think it was. We reflected about what happened and what could have been different. Then after talking about it he decided it was time to move on. It was done and there was nothing more to be done than to get over it. He was resilient.

Linking up to Rachel’s Sunday Snapshot.

RachelSwirl

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