It's been a while !

Yes it has been a while since I last posted on my blogspot and for that I am truly sorry.

It has been a somewhat chaotic few months for us up here on our wee croft to say the least, chaotic yes but unhappy no! Let me fill you in a little, first of all my wonderful husband and I decided to take a motorbike trip to Spain for a few weeks and fantastic it was, even the horrendous rain didn't put us off and as everyone knows every cloud has a silver lining- ours was discovering one of the most amazing one of the most amazing little hotels high in the spanish mountains that we would never of come across if our sat nav had not take us 150 miles out of our way. I never realised how truly decadent it can feel to say when you order red wine to say we will just take the bottle without asking the price first- the need of a drink was dire lol, then to find out the next day when you pay the bill the wine was a mere 3 euros was even better lol! Our trip was amazing, meeting lovely people and realising the importance of just  being together as a couple on an adventure was inspiring but we had to head home and become responsible as my daughter would say. Her opinion of our trip was don't be stupid you two on a motorbike holiday do you realise how totally irresponsible that is! It is great to still be able to be irresponsible and enjoy it I told her !

Now on the way back home we had to make a diversion as just before we left for spain we had recieved a phone call from a young man by the name of Damion who had been looking for his dad for quite some years and believed that Peter my hubby could well be him. Let me explain Pete had a relationship with a girl when they were both young and it hadn't lasted and Peter wasnt sure if there had been a child or not, when he told me when we first started seeing each other I simply said well if there is a child out there it will find you as kids always want to know where they come from. When we saw pics of Damion it was no doubt who his daddy was and what followed were some emotional phonecalls and one especially emotional card that arrived to pete from damion saying he had waited 34 years to send a card to his dad. Any how I digress, on the way back we called in at Damions and met him, his lovely partner Lauren and our first grandson Oscar, and I cannot think of our family complete without Damion and his family being in it.

Then we had the delightful arrival of our grandaughter Sophie Isabella, she turned my life upside down, people often said how wonderful it was to be a grandparent but I didn't quite get it,

I'm not very maternal you see, yes I love my children but I am not keen on other peoples, so when Sophie came along she completely blew my emotions out of the water, I cried like the proverbial baby and couldnt tell you just how much I adore her!

 

 

But this wasn't the last of the surprises by a long way, we had booked to go and visit our son and daughter in law in september this year because they were having a baby too. So I was all excited, suitcases bought- I normal travel everywhere with a rucksack so new experience to me ! When we got a phone call in mid august " Mum would be ok if we came home ?" my son said, shocked I told him there would be no problem but they would need to organise a visa for my daughter in law and they were leaving it a bit late if they intended to have the baby over here as it was due in October. Thinking no more of it I was even more amazed when they rang the last week of August saying they would be arriving on the 6th Sept and could we pick them up at the airport after all its only 300 miles away lol! Of course our answer was yes, and again it was a day of tears because I never ever thought I would see my wonderful son wanting to move back home to the UK. They wanted a better lives for themselves they said and to bring their child up with the freedom my son had had in his childhood they told us and who on earth could argue with that! And I had them home to see me granduate from the University of the Highlands and Islands I am a accomplished Level 3 Professional Beauty Therapist!

So once we got them home we had to organise Tori's medical care for the baby arriving , a job for Vin and lots to do before baby arrived. 

 

 

And arrived he did our gorgeous grandson Eli Peter was born on the 5th october and is now thriving and a happy liitle boy.  It has been a shock after having the house to just Peter and I and our youngest Harley, to now having Vin and Tori and baby Eli at home, there have been some spats but there has mostly been giggles and laughter and smiles and I cherish each and every one there is.

Needless to say there has been crafting and I will now get back to posting pics and keeping up to date on a regular basis. But I think that is enough for today so take care and speak soon xx