What were you doing 24 years ago.............?????

...........Simple enough question really!!




I know what i was doing!!
Lying in a bed in the Maternity Hospital recovering from a  C Section and wondering if i really was Mum to this little creature with all the right things in the right places and had the promise of a mop of red hair on her head!!!


Louise was late.
So they decided that i needed a bit of intervention.
Now - i am not going to bore you with all the gory details, mainly because they're not too nice and to be honest, time does make you kinda forget the bad bits and helps you focus on the good.


I got a smile when she was 24 hours old and a look that said "well - what adventures are we going to have?" That look is one i have come to know a LOT over the past 24 years - some have been great, some not and some downright scary, but we are still here.


SO - 24 years on, we started our celebrations last night. 
Pizza was ordered and eaten.
This morning, pressies and cards.
She went off to get her hair done because she ws going out tonight with the girls from work. Not because it's her birthday (tho that i'm sure would be excuse enough), but it was to welcome the girls from an associated ward at another hospital who have just transferred to the ward.


This afternoon, Charlene and Abby came over.
It was fun watching Abby toddling about, getting bolder. And watching her and Lilo try to suss each other out!!!!




 Me thinks Abby won that battle!!!




Tonight, Lou is away out - red hair (down - which may surprise some of the folk at work who are so used to seeing it tided back and up for work!)


I think they nay literally paint the town red!!!


But the best bit is, i have watched this girl grow up into a confident young woman who is good at her job and good with her brothers .


I just wonder how she's put up with her mad mother (and crazy father!!) for sooooo long!!!!