Friends

I have had some lovely get togethers with some good friends over the past week and I am so grateful! I find it hard to ring friends and say lets get together. In my head I think that they wouldn't have time for me. Because of this I think I have pushed people away. Anyway I have made a concerted effort to get together with friends over the past couple of weeks. Last week I visited Adele and her 3 kiddies. Her oldest was a preemie and her twins were slightly early as twins often are. The twins are just a couple of months older than Isaac and I am seeing how important it is to get Isaac out socialising now he is getting older. Adele also likes to scrapbook and make cards so she came over by herself on Sunday afternoon. She spent most of the time looking through my stash and I was so embarressed at how anally retentive I am! My stash is ultra organised and it wasn't until she went through that I realised. My cardstock and ribbons are sorted by colour, my patterned paper is sorted by manufacturer, and my adhesives are sorted by type, there is more but you get the picture. All that aside Adele would love to get together for a crop and she has a couple of friends that would too so after the holidays I will organise one.

Today I visited Kaila and little Vivienne. Kaila is an incredibly special person. Her husband works for the University and they are here from the States so it is nice to have someone that understands the differences. Vivi is almost a year older than Isaac and wanted him to play with her, Isaac didn't quite understand what that entailed. But he had a ball with the toys animals and cars and 'let' Vivi brush his hair. Kaila and I could have talked for ages! And she is like me finds it hard to phone someone and organise time together, so we both have to work on this one. Kaila spends ALOT of time doing things for the young people ion our Church and I worry that she does too much sometimes, because I understand. I will never, well at least try to never, do that to myself again and I need to help Kaila to do less. She has such a big heart but it really can take its toll on your health.

Bad news: My brother in law was in a head on crash on Monday. He is OK but has multiple fractures and needs an operation next week to pin ankles and elbows. He is incredibly lucky to have come away with only this. There was a photo in the paper last night and my sister didn 't know it was going to be in there, that makes me mad, she doesn't want to kids to see it! She should have been asked, well at least in my opinion! Apparently today he is on Oxygen, cold and very sleepy. My sister has many worries regarding all the things he has taken care of like bills etc, let alone caring for 3 little boys one of which had a developmental disability. I will do what I can.

Well I guess that is all for now, ttfn