Finally, I'm back!

hmm, reading my last post, it said the new year was off to a good start. Well, not so as it turned out. Shortly after I wrote that, we got the news that my mother in law was very sick and likely not to recover from her breast cancer returning. The past 8 months have been very rough on the whole family, several times the doctors thought she wouldn't make it til morning but somehow she always pulled through. While in the hospital she also got pneumonia, but even that she was able to conquer. Except her cancer. She passed away peacefully on August 14th. On Jan's birthday, his mom died. I can't even begin to imagine how that must feel. All I can do is be there for him and listen to him if he wants to talk about it. Which is not all that often as you would expect from a man. I wish he'd open up a little more, but maybe that will come at a later stage. My mom is taking this hard too, as they were good friends and even traveled together. It will take time to heal and then we'll celebrate all the good times we had together. One thing I'll always remember is how she loved it when I agreed to go to flower arranging classes with her. Her sister, Jan's godmother, was the teacher. As if I didn't have enough crafty hobbies she introduced me to flower arranging! I loved it, and did this for about 5 years. :-))
I'll definitely miss her. Here's to you, mom of Jan!

When I finally was ready to pick up my blog and everything else I let slide for the past months, I discovered I couldn't log in to blogger anymore. It took weeks to get it sorted out again. I wish they would make it easier to get help from them. I got a screen message that said they had sent an e-mail with instructions to my gmail account. Duh, my blog and gmail are from the same account so the login is the same. And since the login didn't work, I couldn't access my gmail account either. I don't know where they get it that this would be logical to send it to my gmail if I can't access it. They should know, right?
Oh well, it's sorted out, and I'm happy to be back!
Talk to you all soon again! :-))

Hugs,
Wezz