ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 38TH OF 2021

 Good morning lovely people tis Friday time for

Well it has been a strange week given our news last week, we are all reeling a little bit as you can probably imagine, but finding silver linings is what this post is all about.

So people contacting me via social media or Whatsapp to say they are thinking about me and my family and that they are there if I need them, which really is lovely of them, it means so much when people you haven't seen for a while or even a long time, realise that through the difficult days they can definitely be your silver linings so for that I am immensely grateful. 

Hugs from said 21 year old, that's right it was his birthday this week, where do the years go, it really doesn't feel like 21 years since he was born (but then it does if that makes sense), I went into labour on my birthday at 7.30am but he decided he didn't fancy sharing my birthday and arrived at 6.08am the following morning.  

I am immensely proud of the very well put together, thoughtful, loving and caring young man he has become. 

Lots of conversations with my Mum and sister recently, keeping everyone chipper and upbeat between us. 

A lovely conversation with my first cousin Patsy she really is the sweetest human being in the world, always there to listen, a shoulder to cry on and sometimes to cheer me up or make me laugh, we often put the world to rights and I feel incredibly privileged to spend that time with her. 

Said 21 year old's fiancee bought the now traditional birthday cookie, this one for me

And this one for said 21 year old (I definitely won on the icing front)

I also couldn't make my mind up on cakes and hubby insisted we have one each, so we got a Morris the Caterpillar and a Clyde the Caterpillar from Morrisons and Asda respectively. 

We had fairly grand plans for said 21 year old's birthday pre-pandemic, but to be honest, just spending time together as a family will do if you know what I mean.

I will provide you with more updates on this week next week (it will make more sense next week I promise), I hope you've had a grand week, if you fancy joining in pop a post together, pop back and link up and we can come and visit. 

Rocking Your World friday - 30th of 2020

Good morning lovely people 

Tis friday so time for 

Well last Friday I had the day off and it was the day before my niece's 21st birthday, obviously at the beginning of the year we had some lovely plans for parties but as we know the world has changed and up until a few weeks ago she was very much of the view that her 21st would be something of a wash out. 

However, my sister had different plans which included landscaping her garden, they'd already had some help during the week and filled a 4 tonne skip to boot but the garden still wasn't there.  So on Friday I headed over there and said 19 year old followed later in the morning and between us we 3/4 filled the new 3 tonne skip and deposited 2 tonnes of pebbles on said garden, which meant on Saturday the ridiculously sized marquee that my Mum had bought could be erected and a birthday party was had.

So here is the said birthday girl with my sister singing happy birthday to her, we had a lovely day, good food, good company and an all round fabulous day which was definitely a success.

Sunday was a lovely slow day where we did very little, we put the cushions out on the chairs outside and sat and read, chatted and just enjoyed drinking in the blue skies summers day.  I even had an afternoon nap and hubby prepared a super speedy tea which was lovely and tasty in time for the two workers (said 19 year old and his GF) to arrive home from work. 

Monday arrived all too quickly and I was definitely stiff from all the gardening but it looked so much better and was so worth it.  

I've had a busy but productive week at work, I'm still working on a lot of funding bids at the moment but that's the nature of things and I don't mind, I had a couple of productive days in the office which I enjoyed too.  The downside to mentally tiring days is that there isn't a lot left of me by the end of day for anything else in all honesty, despite making the decision that I would definitely be doing more of an evening, yesterday was the only one where I managed and that was cleaning the house through ready for the weekend. 

And that my lovely people was the week that was, short on photos this week, so I thought I'd leave you with a few scrapbook layouts I've completed reminding me of times when we could go out and do things a lot more easily 

Crazy golf at Center Parcs

Meal out to Bella Italia at Center Parcs (they've gone bust over the pandemic)

Hubby playing on the kids play equipment which was out of bounds during the pandemic, although this was at Center Parcs during that time so that wasn't even open, we so took this time for granted

Badminton and crazy tennis

Out on the lake (and using up a scrapbook kit with lots of mini cards)

Playing spoons and reading

Then last year's visit to Wray Castle

My Stott Park poem (managed to get it included in the layout)

The cottage we stayed in, hubby took the shot from the opposite hillside when him and said 19 year old went exploring

These two on the see saw a Holker Hall

Trip to Hardwick Hall last year

Enjoying a coffee in the coffee shop last year

Birthday outing a couple of years ago

More celebration of valentine birthdays in 2018

An early morning walk for me and hubby

Another one of Hardwick Hall

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