Well Mandi arrived last night or should I say early this morning?!!! It was close on 5am by the time she came in. My neighbours had been brilliant and gone to pick her up from the airport, which is just over 100 miles away, and her plane didn't land until just after 2am!!! I can't thank them enough for going for her, and bringing her safely to me. Well we both had a lie-in and had only been up a couple of hours when Emily arrived!! Those two got on so well and soon we were all chatting and laughing!!
After Emily had changed my bedlinen, she proceeded to go and cut my grass - apparently she enjoys doing it, because Mandi had said that she would do it, but Emily insisted that she did it. So soon she was walking up and down my lawn and within ten minutes it was all cut and looking great.
The temperatures have dropped severely tonight and apparently we can expect frost!!!! For heaven's sake it's the beginning of May!! I certainly didn't expect to still be wearing thermal vests and jumpers this long into the year!!!!
Unfortunately the heavy wind and the rain has done damage to the lilacs and apple blossom, so it isn't as gorgeous as I'd hoped for Mandi to see, still I don't think she was all that bothered this morning as she was feeling extremely tired, she'd been awake close on 26 hours by the time she went to bed!
Well today has been a nice relaxing one and we have been planning all the different places we are going to explore in Turkey!! As she won't be working until I've left, it means that we have 5 weeks to have fun, we've already planned to see as many sunsets as possible!! Yay!!!
Okay folks, sorry I don't have time to write very much. So I wish you all a very happy weekend.
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It all makes sense with your explanation that you and your mom were such good friends and you "paid it forward", reaping the wonderful rewards with Mandi. It's so cool. And when you flip the picture around, my mom's mom reaped emotional abuse on my mom all of her years as a child and growing up...and when she later got Alzheimer's, she was so horrendous to my mom that my parents wouldn't take us to see her because she was such a vile creature. (I did love grandma very much, she was a quiet, nice lady but kept to herself...she would visit me at the bakery where I worked for a while, I loved that!) Everyone can choose how they react to a situation, and my mom paid it forward and treated me the same way her mom treated her--instead of breaking the cycle. A terrible shame. I have wondered if my grandmother's mom was vile to her as a child too. What a bummer it is. And especially so because a cycle CAN be broken. :(
And you really ARE like another mom to me, Jenny. Again and again I think to myself that you're like my English mom! :) I never wanted to say anything because you're not really much older than me (I was born in '64) and I wouldn't want to insult you...it's just that you're so "mom-like" the way you chat and talk about Mandi...I feel like a kid around you starring as Super Mom! :) *big hugs*
I am going back with Mandi to Turkey and I'll be staying there for 5 weeks!!!! We've already planned what we hope to do while I'm there. Sunsets galore!!!
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