Life with grandma

Having grandma to stay is great fun because everything is new. We have basically just swept her up into our lives and so far she seems to be loving it. We have taken her to Tescos, B&Q, coffee at Tchibos, Ikea, Lakeside, Gallions Reach, an Essex wildlife trust nature reserve and RSPB Rainham. Dad even took her to the dump! She has tried pizza, rice, spanish omelette, roast veg and sweet potato for the first time to name but a few. She loves pushing the trolley round Tesco- though I get dirty looks (look at that woman making her poor old mother push the trolley for her!) She is like a traveller in a foreign country (ie life 2007) and fascinated by everything.
The list of new things she has done is huge. She has even had a go at internet banking and has acquired a debit card and pin number (though we haven't quite got around to actually using it yet). She is wearing trousers for the first time in her life and is currently sporting a pair of black tracksuit bottoms with white stripes and a fleece. Next stop a pair of trainers!
Tonight we introduced her to another of our regular events - the bonfire party. Our cell group 'wining and dining' met here tonight so we had a marshmallow roast. Great bonfire, lots of good dangerous fire poking, stick waving and frog chasing going on all around. Grandma sat by the fire in her special chair with the sheepskin, like a tribal matriarch, and loved it all.

As time goes by

I can't believe so much time has gone by without putting anything up.The last 3 months have just been crazy,first grandma getting ill and having to go backwards and forward to see her, trying to get the house ready so she could live here,finishing off all last years courses and all the new recruitment, then Canada, then home to more course planning, enrolment week, new tutor interviews and inductions and of course sorting out grandma long term. A slight pause this week then classes start Monday! Just this one more week of craziness as all the new classes and new tutors start and then hopefully I'll have sorted out a reasonable timetable. In an odd way though I'm looking to actually get more done, I;ve noticed before that the less time I appear to have the better I plan it and think oh I've got an hour between this and that - I can fit in a swim or whatever. If I have too much open time I get nothing done at all.