Trusting all Will be Well

Trusting that all will be well and that Alan will be able to be rid of all this tomorrow!

A Different Week

I just wanted to say a big Thank You

to everyone for the prayers, best wishes and sense of support during what has been quite a difficult week but nothing compared to what some folk are having to deal with I know

Alan's surgery went well and he arrived home looking like a 'mummy' with his legs and feet bandaged and unable to even put on a pair of slippers. He then had an unscheduled visit to the hospital the next day as there was much bleeding and leaking from the site of the skin removal for the plastic surgery

The hospital is a specialised unit so is some distance away

He got home 10.30 pm and in no time the different kind of dressing was slipping down his thigh and exposing bare flesh so

 back to the hospital again the next day

After another long wait the third dressing seems to have worked
so we await his scheduled visit next Thursday
He was meant to keep his feet higher than his heart for 48 hours but some hope with the hospital trips 
He discarded the foam that was supposed to protect the bandages on his feet, but instead were breaking up and making a mess on the carpet yesterday, which enabled him to wear his slippers
He has to keep his legs up as much as possible but able to get around too now which means he is back to filling and emptying the dishwasher!!

Sun setting in the park this week

Will be back to visiting everyone ASAP

Done and Dusted before Alan's Surgery

Christmas came and went

Very enjoyable with my children and grandchildren

as did New Year's Eve

Great meal, games then prayer, praise and worship

Tree and decorations down early - just the cards now

before Alan's surgery tomorrow

He will be having Basal Cell Carcinoma's removed from his legs followed by Plastic Surgery then 

no walking, standing or driving for 7 days

so wanted  everything back in the loft while he can do it

Wishing you a Happy and Peaceful
New Year with a couple of photographs from this week

and the cards made for birthdays this week

Hopefully will be getting back to posting lots more from last Summer outings

Cakes Galore at Leigh-on-Sea

A change of scene with a visit to the wedding cake shop

in Leigh-on-Sea

The pictures taken through the window show lots of reflections

Which one do you like best?

It has to be the two in the above photo for me I think

This shop contains a small tea room and there are lots of cup cakes to choose from

Having just had lunch we passed on this and I did not buy any to take home!

Let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a

Very Happy New Year

A Week of Happenings

Quite a mixed week. It began on Sunday with house churches together at our Christian school for an informal time of praise and worship followed by a table laden with food

Relationships and eating together is an integral part of our worship

Followed the next day for Alan and I, the celebration of our 52nd wedding anniversary

and a Nativity Play in town put on by local churches (hourly over 2 weeks)

On the following day, painting a property on site that will house a group of young people from Ywam (youth with a mission) that we are hosting through 2012

with the funeral of an elderly neighbour the following day

 Thursday Janie and the Grandchildren were here for 9 hours

loved having them but ended up too tired for evening Carol singing in the street

So it was back to planning for Christmas today - quite a mixed bag

so taking the opportunity to wish all my blogging buddies a very Happy Christmas and Blessed and Peaceful New Year

Christmas Scenes Around My House

It's Christmas
the tree is up

along with my knitted Christmas craft

with a different view from the conservatory

with a peep into the dining room

and some lights in the front

the cards are made, written and posted

the cake is made

marzipaned

and iced

and the Blackbird feasts every day outside my kitchen window

I think wrapping the presents will be next

in a week's time I will be looking forward to the Christmas edition of Downton Abbey

Did I say that life was looking good!

I am just being facetious, Christmas is more than these outward symbols as we know so I look forward to celebrating the birth of Jesus and enjoying the company of my family, aware that many do not have that privilege for whatever reason. My heart goes out to them and they will be in my prayers.