sorry....point form update.
* i hope you all had a relaxing easter. we had a quiet one. mark, kait and i drove to brisbane on Good Friday to watch the boys play two of their futsal games (they lost both but the experience was great for them). they both played really well. it's a pity the games were so spread out over the weekend or we would have watched more.
* i caught up with my cousin deb who came to watch matt and jakey play on friday. i have only managed to have short visits with her over the past few years. deb and i are very close but with both of us having growing, sporty kids we haven't managed to catch up for more than 5 or 10 minutes here or there. it was good to sit for ages and just talk and catch up. good to see her son ryan too, who is mine and mark's godson. he has grown into quite a handsome young man and so tall.
* my brother and his wife and two boys also made the trek over to watch the boys play. i can't believe how much we have seen them since they made the move from perth and after the game we even managed to have dinner with them - a feed of fish and seafood from Red Rooster of all places. kait and i will be going to spend a few days with them in the next lot of school holidays, which will be just wonderful.
* mark, kait and i spent time with my uncle bob on sunday. as some of you may know, he has bowel cancer. due to lack of funding for staff, he was sent home from the palliative care unit on good friday even though he needed 4 units of blood last week after being rushed there by ambulance.
so my poor dad and step-mum have had the unenvious task of caring for a terminally ill man at home and i was not surprised in the least to get a call from dad yesterday to say bob had been rushed back to hospital (the local base hospital this time) after having a massive haemmorage. i saw him today and he looks pale and weak and just fed up with the whole thing.
cancer is an insidious disease and the sooner governments put more money into finding a cure for it, the better.
i hate seeing uncle bob so weak and tired and fed up and it is certainly taking it's toll on my dad and step-mum as well. because of the nature of bob's cancer, he only seems comfortable with having dad and erica caring for him so my support can only be in terms of doing washing for them and cooking meals.
* a HUGE congrats to my friend ali, her partner liam and jack on the birth of cameron, affectionately known as "loafie".
i bet they are just all over the moon at his arrival. and with ali being such an amazing photographer and scrapper i bet there will be lots of wonderful baby boy LOs and pics appearing soon.
* and check out this gorgeous girl.
WOO HOO...!!!!
what a looker you are miss...!!!!
have a blast in the US won't you...???
* still no scrapping to share (and my "exciting scrapping news" fell by the wayside as well which kind of gutted me a bit for a while there)
i sat down at my desk several times over the weekend but only managed to shuffle papers. i have a LO half done that needs finishing but just can't get my mojo happening.
i guess with everything that has been going on with uncle bob, creativity has been put aside in the old "shazzie brain"
hopefully next update i will have some creativity to share.
until then though.....remember to always to look for the things in your life that make you smile
~~ and let those you love, know that you do ~~
and like the song says....."LIVE OUT LOUD"
shazz xo
* i hope you all had a relaxing easter. we had a quiet one. mark, kait and i drove to brisbane on Good Friday to watch the boys play two of their futsal games (they lost both but the experience was great for them). they both played really well. it's a pity the games were so spread out over the weekend or we would have watched more.
* i caught up with my cousin deb who came to watch matt and jakey play on friday. i have only managed to have short visits with her over the past few years. deb and i are very close but with both of us having growing, sporty kids we haven't managed to catch up for more than 5 or 10 minutes here or there. it was good to sit for ages and just talk and catch up. good to see her son ryan too, who is mine and mark's godson. he has grown into quite a handsome young man and so tall.
* my brother and his wife and two boys also made the trek over to watch the boys play. i can't believe how much we have seen them since they made the move from perth and after the game we even managed to have dinner with them - a feed of fish and seafood from Red Rooster of all places. kait and i will be going to spend a few days with them in the next lot of school holidays, which will be just wonderful.
* mark, kait and i spent time with my uncle bob on sunday. as some of you may know, he has bowel cancer. due to lack of funding for staff, he was sent home from the palliative care unit on good friday even though he needed 4 units of blood last week after being rushed there by ambulance.
so my poor dad and step-mum have had the unenvious task of caring for a terminally ill man at home and i was not surprised in the least to get a call from dad yesterday to say bob had been rushed back to hospital (the local base hospital this time) after having a massive haemmorage. i saw him today and he looks pale and weak and just fed up with the whole thing.
cancer is an insidious disease and the sooner governments put more money into finding a cure for it, the better.
i hate seeing uncle bob so weak and tired and fed up and it is certainly taking it's toll on my dad and step-mum as well. because of the nature of bob's cancer, he only seems comfortable with having dad and erica caring for him so my support can only be in terms of doing washing for them and cooking meals.
* a HUGE congrats to my friend ali, her partner liam and jack on the birth of cameron, affectionately known as "loafie".
i bet they are just all over the moon at his arrival. and with ali being such an amazing photographer and scrapper i bet there will be lots of wonderful baby boy LOs and pics appearing soon.
* and check out this gorgeous girl.
WOO HOO...!!!!
what a looker you are miss...!!!!
have a blast in the US won't you...???
* still no scrapping to share (and my "exciting scrapping news" fell by the wayside as well which kind of gutted me a bit for a while there)
i sat down at my desk several times over the weekend but only managed to shuffle papers. i have a LO half done that needs finishing but just can't get my mojo happening.
i guess with everything that has been going on with uncle bob, creativity has been put aside in the old "shazzie brain"
hopefully next update i will have some creativity to share.
until then though.....remember to always to look for the things in your life that make you smile
~~ and let those you love, know that you do ~~
and like the song says....."LIVE OUT LOUD"
shazz xo
2 comments:
Hi Shazz,
So sorry to hear about your uncles illness. My thoughts are with you and your family. Yes cancer is an incedious disease. We have just lost a family member to pancreatic and liver cancer and it was just so heartbreaking to see the suffering. Our uncle was blessed with a quick passing (4 weeks from diagnosis) though he did suffer right to the end.
Hugs to you Shazz
xTrudi
I so agree Shazz, why our government is not putting a heap of funding into cancer research is beyond me too. The public seems to be responsible for raising funds themselves more than anything else. I'm thinking of you and your extended family. Take care.
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