BIG HUGS TO EVERYONE

Hi Everyone

I just wanted to pop in and explain my current absence from blogland, and give my love and thanks to everyone who has been enquiring as to whether all is well in the Home of Hearts.

Unfortunately things are not good with my lovely Mum, and I have been spending a huge portion of my time with her, as have my brother and sister. 

Mum has definitely been through the mill and after being admitted to hospital via A&E, and spending time on three wards, we have just reached a stage where she is due to be transferred to a Community Hospital for rehabilitation as her mobility and stamina are both very poor.  I guess at 95 things can take a long time to get over.  The saddest part is that she thinks she is waiting to be taken home by the ambulance people.  Each time she asks when she is going home we have to break the news to her again that she isn't .. .. which of course doesn't please her in the slightest .. .. it is like it is the first time she has been told, and sometimes it causes tears and sometimes it doesn't.

But deep down I am also worried she may never return home, and could need to go somewhere that she is watched over 24/7 - and then I will feel like I am the worst daughter in all the world :-( 

It has been quite depressing seeing so many poorly people, and it makes you question what your own future could hold.  But at the same time we have met and got to know so many fellow patients and have shared some lovely conversations with them (we even set up an escape committee on one ward as the lady in the next bed to Mum had worked out the code for the escape door!).  Once the nurses knew they said they would have to get that number changed now as all their valuables were stored behind that door which they collected as they went home  LOL!!.  

But at least it lightened the mood on the ward and caused lots of laughs with folk as we kept recruiting new members - even some of the staff were joining in the fun and jokes.  We even had the offer of someone bringing a huge van for transport once we knew our "final escape day".  No-one ever questioned where we might all go to though once we had escaped. LOL!!!

Anyway, here is a little card I made before all of this mayhem took hold for taking over to the Snippet Playground and to share some love with everyone on the run up to Christmas.  

and here are the snippets I started off with

This used:

Sending Big Hugs Die via Ebay 
Snippets of paper and card from my HUGE Snippet Mountain
Corner Rounding Punch
My Trusty Sewing Machine

Happy run up to Christmas everyone, I hope your life is much calmer than mine is at this moment in time.