I have been splitting my time as carer for my In-laws and also trying to see something of my father... My house literally looks like the 'Wreck of the Hesperus' and I had such plans to clean and tidy a room a week whilst I was on recess. No such luck! I had planned to have my first full day at home, since breaking up, today.. Sunday ... 4 weeks in to the holiday. No chance... went to put the icing on some cakes instead (see below)! However, on my return, DH and I went for an idyllic walk with the dog across some local water meadows in the sunshine. It was very warm and relaxing... just to go and walk, talk and enjoy the countryside... It took about 10 minutes to walk to and was only slightly spoiled by the drone of a hovering helicopter and the circling light aeroplanes, possibly pilots of the future learning their trade... it was that often! It was such a lovely afternoon.
DD flies to NY on Thursday... the football kit for which does not arrive until Tuesday!!!!! It should have been with her two months ago!!!! I will be going to her house to wait for it to arrive as both she and her landlady will be at work. The downside... I have to be there for 8.00 am. The up-side, she will be home for lunch and hopefully will remember to bring something with her for us as we wont be able to go out to purchase anything. I suspect I shall be asked to find something somewhere once she arrives.
We have decided to stay a few extra days in Brazil after going to a friend's wedding there, later in the year. Weekend flights were just too expensive to return then anyway and there was not a flight available on the Monday, so that we thought it would be nice to explore the town and locality. I would have liked to stay in Sao Paulo, but it is just adding to the cost and we are still trying to recoup a little of what we did not earn when DH was off work and I was looking after MIL. This will be happening again when she has her hip done. Thank goodness for Supply work. Anyway, it will be the height of summer out there when we go and I have little idea what to wear for a more up-market wedding. Luckily I am shedding some of the excess weight I have (1 STONE (14LB'S) SO FAR!!!) been carrying for far too long and hope to have got to a sensible level for my age and height.... this means another 2 stone at least but preferably 3. I hope I can do it as it means I will be able to wear some of the really nice clothes I have been desperately hanging on to for 'a while'!
As I say, we have been ultra busy with DH's family... his father came out of the care home on Wednesday and as predicted, it took less than three days for MIL to be back where she started... she is finding it even harder to cope since. I do not know what to do for them for the best. The poor man is adamant he will never go back to the home, she is equally adamant he won't, but that she might if she is stressed much more! What to do? Dementia is a tough one.
I have also been busy covering a wedding cake needed for the end of this week. It is three tiers, but the cakes will sit on top of each other rather than on pillars or separate stands. I have no decorating to do as the couple want fresh flowers and green ribbon around the base of each cake. (The colours I purchased were either to minty or too limey. Finally found one called khaki but it really is just a leaf green and will blend in well with the fresh flowers. It is just not the green they had in the picture they showed me/wanted, which is probably an organza ribbon anyway and so much more translucent.) Just as well they don't want me to make the flowers as I have not made any for over a year now and am feeling a little rusty!
I also just completed a baby quilt for my friend whose baby is due in September, who, I am glad to say loved it and phoned me, in floods of tears to say just how much she loved it... the colours being those she had chosen for the baby's room (I did not know this). So what to do about this.. I have too many quilts UNFINISHED as it is! I still need to start the one promised for an acquaintance! But then of course there is the huge pile of ironing!!! Now which would you prefer to do first, dear reader?
* Well it is now Monday and I have spent the day ironing, washing and ironing the dry. At least I only have one basket of it left ( I had three, plus the freshly washed - all now hanging to air!) but that is piled high... well higher than I would like it to be. Once that is done, I shall be guilt free and be able to tackle some more housework then the quilts... or shall I just take it to DD's tomorrow? Now there's an idea!
Until next time...
