One for baby

Not the best of images, I'm sorry. I tried several times to get a good picture of this one, but they all seem to end up wishy washy. This pretty blanket is for my Grandbaby, who is due in June.

I've already started a colourful ripple, it's in another post here somewhere.

I haven't done any sewing, except to sew in the woolly ends of rows! I've been enjoying my crochet too much. 

Mums doing ok, bumbling along. She is looking tired and has had some time off work. I'm really not sure if she should or will be going back in next week. She plans to, but we'll see about that! 

Break time over, I'm off to make her a little lunch then I'm sure I can find something to do later.

Lou xx

DSCF4063, a photo by TonysMRs on Flickr.

Whats with Blogger?

I really don't need this!  I pop in to make a quick post, only to find that Blogger won't upload my images from the puter. I have to send them somewhere else first. Huff Puff! Then, I find I've managed to send two images to two blog posts! I don't have time to figure out what I did wrong, so will just manage with what I have. What you see here is my latest creation. A lovely super multi coloured ripple blanket. I t has quite a long way to go. I plan to keep this one for me. A great snuggle blanket for on the sofa.

The other frustrating thing about posting via Flickr is that I can't use my signature either!! Think I may have to set my husband on this and see if he can figure it out for me. Right I'm off to the second image, to blather about that for a while. 

Still can't upload images?

 Whats going on with Blogger? I am still unable to upload images directly from my lap top. I had to send this one to Flickr in order to share it here. Anyway, that aside, this is what I did on Monday while I was at the hospital with mum. Doesn't look like much at the moment I know, but it will be a baby cardigan.

This Monday was much easier for me.  Going to the hospital with mum seems to be the answer. As well as my crochet, I also took along a pile of foody magazines and we looked at the recipes, making the other patients drool and marking any we thought I might try out. We'll be taking a cake with us next week! I decided.

Time for work. 

A better day

This has taken some doing I can tell you! For some reason I was unable to upload photos from the computer, I've been all over the internet trying to ensure you have an image! Anyway, I'm here now. Thank you for your supportive messages in response to my last post, they are just what I needed. I've arranged to have a few Mondays off work, we'll see how things go. Next Monday I'll be going with Mum when she has her appointment at blood clinic. Hopefully not only will she have her usual test, they will also do a type match and give her a transfusion. That takes up quite a bit of the day and really does nothing for her mood. I plan to take along some crochet and a pile of my foody magazines. We both enjoy looking through them and Mum can mark all the recipes she would like me to have a go at. She really enjoys that. Sometimes they are a hit and sometimes a miss, but we never know until we try. :-)

Onto the troublesome image. Nothing terribly special, just an update of my latest crochet project. I think one more round of colours and I'll call this one quits. Maybe I'll have it ready to take with me on Monday, I can add borders while mum gets her blood!

We have a busy weekend ahead of us. It's mums birthday on Friday, so we're off out for dinner. Then on Saturday my sister and her family will be joining us at home for another birthday dinner. (Having just had a major op, she is excused from joining us on Friday), Sunday, mum is having lunch with a friend, while I'm at work, then on Sunday evening another friend will be joining us for a Chinese banquet, which we will be doing take away style. Phew!  Maybe I won't have the blanket ready for it's borders!

Hmm, problem with doing the image thing this way is I don't have my siggie sewing machine. I do hope they sort out what ever the issue is very soon.

I don't like Mondays

No, I'm not reliving my past and singing along to the Boomtown Rats.

Mondays are bad days in this house. Monday is blood test day. Mum resents having her blood tested, it reminds her that she is ill. It is inconvenient and gets in the way of her life. As if that were not bad enough, sometimes she has to go for a follow up test and a transfusion, and that really spoils her day, well actually it spoils the whole week. I'm not in a good place myself on a Monday, I'm on edge all day, waiting for her to get back from the hospital and wondering what sort of mood she will be in, knowing it won't be good and that she will be angry and snappy and as I am the one here waiting for her, I'm the one who will get all of that frustration. I'm also the one who receives the call from the hospital and has to relay the results. Not a pleasant job even when they show an improvement, and a horrid job when I have to relay bad news. 

I've made the decision to reduce my working hours by one shift a week and I've come to the conclusion that I really shouldn't work on Mondays, I really don't cope any better than Mum does. We had a chat this evening Mum and I, she reassures me, that she is not angry with me, she says she is angry with Luke (The illness) and she doesn't mean to take it out on me and upset me. She says Mondays don't exist any more. I too feel that I have lost Mondays. We agreed that we need to find a way to inject a little positivity into our Mondays. Getting together for lunch or a look at the shops is out as blood clinic can take anything from 2 - 4 hours, which kind of screws up your day. I could go and sit in the hospital with her, but that has kind of become my brothers job, he sees to the test and I deal with home and the results, I don't want to take that away from him, besides he says that gives me a little time off. So what can I do to make Mondays better, for both/all of us. Maybe we should go out for tea on Mondays, or I should bake a cake or another sweet treat, Mum has a very sweet tooth even if I don't. 

What do you think people? Please help me out here.