This Mad Season

If we were meeting for coffee today I’d be somewhat selfish and unload a lot of my recent stress on you, well that’s what friends are for – to support you and tell you everything will be fine and hopefully to cheer you up too, right?

I mostly had a lovely relaxing weekend, not doing much – a few loads of washing, some clearing and sorting and plenty of sitting in the garden. I’m planning a large youth camp with a friends for next summer so we went to check out a location which is perfect.

The stress started when I was on the way back, my Grampa’s in hospital with a few minor things but he’s on the mend, it’s nothing surprising but my Gran has to deal with a lot, but my family near home are able to deal with everything. I got back home to blood and glass on the kitchen floor and a message to meet my boy at A&E (or ER for my American coffee friends), while washing the dishes a glass dropped from the drying rack, smashed and as it fell to the floor, he caught it, slicing his hand rather impressively open.

So an evening in A&E, lots of injections, poking around and cleaning it out followed by some stitching with blue thread and then home via the fish and chip shop! Sometimes there’s nothing like hot, steamy fish and chips for comfort.

Our Sunday night was then rounded off by a phone call from a different A&E department after my uncle had a heart attack, even though he’s still pretty young, doesn’t smoke, does plenty of exercise and doesn’t have any history of anything like this in the family. It’s kind of a sobering thought really.

Thankfully everything seems to be settling down now and stabilising and healing, but it’s been a bit of a crazy few days. I was at the point of saying what’s going to go wrong next yesterday whilst on the phone and glanced out the window to see a flat tyre! Not much in the grand scale of things but just another thing to be sorted out.

So I’m hoping that you had a better Sunday night that I did and that the week has a whole lot of good news for us all!

{Linking up for Virtual Coffee at Amy’s}