Monday 30 November 2009

IT'S MY PARTY........



"and I'll cry if I want to....
Cry if I want to....
Cry if I want to....
You would cry too if it happened to you...."


ENOUGH OF THE SINGING

THERE WAS DEFINATELY NO CRYING AT THIS PARTY.. 

As you know it was Emilys 4th Birthday recently so I just wanted to share with you some of the photographs from her party.

VENUE: KINDERLAND
DATE: 29/11/09
TIME: 10am til 12 noon

28 CHILDREN
MIXTURE OF GIRLS & BOYS
MIXTURE OF "REGULAR" KIDS and SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS

DID THEY ALL HAVE FUN TOGETHER ~ YES THEY DID


















All of the children had a fantastic time, I would like to say thank you so much for coming, thank you for all of the lovely presents and more importantly thank you for making Emilys birthday so special.     With love Tracey & Ian xx                                                      

Friday 27 November 2009

4 years......

I find it hard to believe that 4 years have passed by so very very quickly...... This is the only photograph I can find of me when pregnant with Emily!!  I didn't get the chance to grow any bigger as my pregnancy was cut so short and Emily had to make an emergency entrance in to this world..... It has passed so quickly but the journey has been long, full of fear, heartache and grief ~vs~ un-conditional love, determination, achievements, proudness, smiles, happiness and more importantly made us appreciate what we have "A Beautiful Little Girl" and what is truely important in life.....

So today my blog is plain and simple....... it's to wish our gorgeous and very brave little pumpkin a







WE LOVE YOU VERY VERY MUCH and FEEL HONOURED THAT YOU CHOSE US TO BE YOUR PARENTS - YOU HAVE TAUGHT US SO MUCH xxxxxx

Tuesday 24 November 2009

"A Christmas Carol"

Did you know that this is my favourite festive film....

I love it........ the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and Bob Cratchit and his poor family!



This is a light hearted post really....... but this morning I'm realising that poor Bob and his family are showing a resemblance to my own family situation!!!

My hubby has been a rather "mature" apprentice for the last 3 years...... money has been extremely tight to say the least but this was our choice and a way of making a better future for us as a family....

We thought the hardship would stop now that he has qualified....... he's now a fully qualified Joiner (yippee) - qualified nearly 5 months ago now.

Alas ~ no happy ending to this story........ these "economic" times are not great for most businesses ....... so no pay reward from been an "apprentice" to now been "qualified" and also been stuck in a no-win situation as there aren't any jobs out there to apply for either.

Is he been taken adventure of ?? - YES I personally feel he is

Could more be done to at least acknowledge the fact that he is now qualified ?? - YES I personally feel there could be

So here I am "Mrs Cratchit" complaining to her hard working husband "Bob" that that old "Ebenezer Scrooge" doesn't deserve his loyalty........ while all along wondering what the future holds for our own "Tiny Tim / Emily"

I am hoping the ghosts of Christmas' past / present & future make their visits to our Ebenezer this year..............

ANYONE KNOW OF ANYONE NEEDING A JOINER - please email us here...........



Sunday 22 November 2009

Obsession of the week.......

This weeks obsession is one of Mummys masterpieces "attempts" at art....

The main thing is my special little girl thinks Mummy is amazing...... and loves her new play-thing.......

This week we have tried to bump up the festive spirit......

This week Emilys obsession is.......

 Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer




With love to you all - especially those of you who haven't laughed "thank you"...

Saturday 14 November 2009

Made me Giggle.....

So I had to just post this as it made me giggle and brought back to me a few posts on the C17 forum which we have had lately.

Some of the families {our new special family} posted recently saying about their children going walk-abouts during the night.........  Emily is no different!!!!

She does it very often [he he] - we put her to bed, she falls asleep sometimes in bed, sometimes not in bed or sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night and she is no longer in bed!!!

Due to Emilys epilepsy we have TV monitoring in her room so that we can see her {just in case!!}.  Quite often though she suddenly disappears................. so I had to share these with you!!

One minute she was in bed the next minute we found her here ..


 Fast asleep on the landing outside her bedroom door - and YES with her feet up the wall!!!

A few minutes later she was back where she belonged...

still fast asleep - sssshhhhhh

SWEET DREAMS OUR LITTLE PRECIOUS ONE xx

and TO YOUR BIG BROTHER TOO....


Home at Last..


JUST LOOK WHO EMILY GOT TO HAVE A CUDDLE WITH.....




I am very happy to say that Mum is home ....

So now it's trying to all get our lives back on track and find some sort of normality again - but that's proving to be quite difficult.....

I can't forget that last week MY BEAUTIFUL MUM had a heart attack, I can't seem to get it out of my mind that just 10 days ago we were very very close to losing her.  In fact I'm probably finding this week much harder than last week....... I suppose last week I tried to hold everything together for Dad, tried to be strong and positive............ this week I'm an emotional wreck!!

Obviously though I'm VERY VERY HAPPY to have her home, to be able to see her smile, to be able to have a chat with her and more importantly to be able to give her a very tight hug and tell her HOW MUCH WE ALL LOVE HER.. xxxxx

Saturday 7 November 2009

My Beautiful Mum......

Now if you where to ask Emily who she loved the most in the whole world - she would sign to you "Grandma" :-)

One of Emily's obsessions is "Grandma" :-)

Emily and her Grandma have a very special relationship (as does her big Brother)





MY BEAUTIFUL MUM....... she is my best friend

MY BEAUTIFUL MUM...... she is my rock

MY BEAUTIFUL MUM...... is the core of our family unit

MY BEAUTIFUL MUM...... is my every thing

This week has been a week from HELL - I can think of no other way to describe it.  I arrived at my parents home on Tuesday morning to find paramedics attending to MY BEAUTIFUL MUM - I say with great sadness and a very heavy heart that my Mum had suffered a heart attack............... 

Thankfully Mum is doing very well ~ I have just returned from the hospital....... she had a 100% blockage to one of her valves which was a blood clot, the operation was successful and thankfully carried out immediately.  As long as Mum takes things easy she may even be allowed home soon!!

I find it difficult to comprehend how life can change so drastically with no warning what so ever!!

So please don't take your loved ones for granted - life is more delicate than I realised even with what we have experienced with Emily and her problems nothing in the world could have prepared me for this.

Lots of prayers and healing vibes for MY BEAUTIFUL MUM please.

Halloween '09

I know I'm a little late in doing this post (my next post will make the reason for this very clear!!)

A week ago now we had Halloween.  I previously posted Halloweens Gone By and said I would post some piccies for this years ~ here they are:


We went to a party at my friends house (Dracula) above.  The decorations etc were brilliant Lesley did a fantastic job - alot of Joshua's school friends where there too ~ they all had a wonderful time.

Including Emily once I finally managed to get her through the front door!!!  Once in she had a great time - it was lovely to see.