Despair

Not a good day. I googled the definition and one said," loss of hope; utter hopelessness". Yeah, that about covers it.

Received news this morning that friends of ours who were going to come visit early next year have cancelled their plans. No hope left of seeing them any time soon. Gut wrenching.

Hence despair.

I HATE the fact that I can't see anyone I want to see from home. I HATE the fact that it's absolutely hopeless. And I'm really really tired, once again, of being positive. I'm really quite worn out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah there are lots of positive things going on but I seem to have forgotten every single one of them right now.

Theo!

Our newest (and final!) addition. We actually adopted Theo about a week or so ago but had some troubles at the beginning. The VERY beginning. Lloyd and I brought him home and got him inside to let him start getting used to us and the house. I went back outside to get more things from the car forgetting that the alarm had been set in the house. You know what happens next, right? Alarm goes off, I run back into the house pushing the door closed behind me. Gust of wind comes and blows the door open, Theo wastes no time and is out that door in a flash! Bribed him with food for a few days and he's now coming around regularly and sleeping with us and loving being loved. Phew!

And Life Goes On

So. Here we are. Loving life.

Getting down and dirty in the garden... with any luck I'll have potatoes by Christmas! Other wonderful vegetables have been planted as well as an herb garden and all this pleases us no end.

Lloyd has a loose tooth! Discovered that on my birthday. No one wants to pull it out so it's hanging in there. He keeps saying, "tomorrow we'll do it". As you all know, tomorrow never quite makes it so there you go. There's no way I'm pulling it out EVER so we'll just let it come out when it's good and ready.

Hard to believe he's in his last term for Year One at school. Amazing.

Also amazing is how content I am. Having our own house and being surrounding by all our things (and my oh my do we have a lot of things!) has made all the difference in the world. We feel like we've been here a long time, not the few weeks it's been.

Still hard to believe I can't plan an impromptu visit to any of you. Doesn't bear much thinking about really because there's nothing anyone can do about it. But! Skype has been a lifesaver and so have the packages we've received. Thank you with all my heart for the time, expense and, most of all, thought that has gone into everything that has been sent.

Just harvested the celery and some spring onions (they were here and growing when we arrived) so best go get it all washed and ready for consumption!