Well, another Bank Holiday where the rain has spoiled the day! It has rained heavily all day and it is cold and miserable! Strangely though I awoke this morning to brilliant sunshine and got up to turn the heating down because it was too warm! The wonderful British Weather!!
Other than a bit of washing and cooking the tea I have not done a great deal today, I have quite a busy week ahead so want to save my energy! I have appointments at various places this week in preparation for going away, and as it is now only 5 weeks until we leave, I have quite a lot to do! One thing I do have to sort out before I go is my medication. After discussing with Abby, Luke's girlfriend, who is a Pharmacist, the problems I have with terrible dreams and disturbed nights, she has suggested that I go back to the doctor and ask for some other form of medication to help me sleep. I cannot sleep without Amitriptyline, but when I take it I have the most horrific nightmares! So it is a bit of a catch 22, if I don't sleep, I get stressed, and if I get stressed the Fibro if so much worse! So I keep taking them in the hope that I get a good night's sleep! Such a vicious circle!
But on the plus side, in 5 weeks and 2 days I will be on the boat and making my way to Spain to the apartment, with my lovely hubby and my dog Jess! The reason for the boat is because we are taking our dog! I cannot bear to be away from her for that long, and I don't think it is fair to expect Luke to care for her either, he has enough on his plate looking after the house and the business! We have driven to Spain twice now, but on the second trip we found it all to be a bit too much, and the last few hours of driving got us both a bit wound up, and I was in agony too! At least this way we have 24 hours on the boat then an 8 hour car journey in Spain, and we have a 4 hour journey from home to the boat before we sail. A lot easier than 4 days of travelling in the car, sometimes for 7 hours!
Before that, we have the job of going to Leeds for the weekend to move Aaron into his first home! He has bought a lovely four storey house (on his own!), it is his first purchase, and I couldn't be prouder of my boy, such a big decision to take, moving on from renting to buying your own home! He is settled into his job at Roundhay teaching mathematics, and they are desperate for him to stay at the school. Male maths teachers are few and far between, so when they do get one, and a good one at that, they do tend to hold on to them! Although I feel sad that he will be staying up north, I am looking forward to him moving into his first home, and I hope that he will have many happy years there. It is difficult as a mum to cut the apron strings, so when he went off to University at 18, I was upset, I cried, I used to sit in his bedroom and just look at his things, it was really difficult but I knew I had to let go! So although this is a wrench, I have adjusted somewhat, but I will always miss him being here with us. I consider myself lucky that when it comes to Christmas and Easter he still wants to come home, as well as many other visits throughout the year, and I love that, it is great to know that he still wants to spend time with us! Long may it continue. Below is the link to look at the house that Aaron is buying!
http://www.findaproperty.com/for-sale/property-10479087
On the other hand we still have Luke at home and he and Abby will be looking at buying their own home later this year or early next year. When that happens we will look at selling the house and moving into something smaller. Two of us, plus dog, rattling around in a 4 bedroomed detached house seems a bit of a waste. Plus with my mobility slowly getting worse, we are looking at getting a bungalow! It will be a big wrench for us to leave this house, we watched it being built, we chose the plot and then they built it, so it has been ours for 22 years and nobody else has lived in it! The boys did their growing up here, they went to school here, it will be very sad leaving it, but life moves on! In fact when I made the photo album for Elaine & Vic I found the photos we had of the house being built, at the various stages, right from the bare plot!
It seems really strange when I consider that when I was in my teens I can remember thinking that 40 was old, here I am at 54 feeling as if I am physically like a 74 year old, but in my head and heart I still feel like a 24 year old! Well after the weekend I now know I am not 24, I am definitely 54, it has taken me until today to get myself sorted, but as I have already said it was worth it all just to see our friends faces when they saw all their family and friends waiting to surprise them and send them off in style!
A busy week ahead means I may not get on here until the weekend, but I feel I am doing well with my blog at the minute, keeping to my promise to put my thoughts down more frequently! Let's see how long it lasts!
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