Christmas 2010

I have the most wonderful daughter-in-law!  Just look at this Christmas cake she made for our dessert yesterday, with strawberry and cream Santas!!!!!!!  It was our first Christmas in the new house and we sat out on the deck, overlooking the swimming pool surrounded by trees.  The in-laws were there, too, so it was just a perfect family time.

I needed a happy day, as the previous day had been very stressful, with me reading old letters and sorting throughvarious bits and pieces, like the tickets, boarding passes, etc, from when Philip and I went to live in France in 1973!!!!!!!!  I threw them out, but have hung onto the drawings he did when he was in kinder, and all the cards he's ever sent me in his whole 40 years.  There's a tear-bringing card that his Nanny sent to me once when I was holidaying in London and he was about 6:  'Dear Mummy, I miss you more and more as the days get longer and longer.'  Needless to say, I hopped on the next plane home!

Michael, by now you will have received my email and know I did, indeed, get your ecard.  Thanks again.

And thanks to you, Winifred and Frank, for the lovely cards that were waiting for me at the new address.