Family Affairs

I have received two Christmas round robin letters so far.  Whilst two of my children are bickering in the background (my youngest child has just told his sister that it would have been much better if she had been an orphan) and my teenage son is majorly stressed because I have told him that of course I am not going to take his application for three mates to get fake ID to the Post Office to send via registered post – that it’s all illegal and he shouldn’t be attempting to get them and he’s saying to me “but mum, they’re called NOVELTY CARDS – they’re no big deal EVERYBODY’S got one”……I have been contemplating what I might write in my Christmas letter should I decide to send one.

It really wouldn’t be good.  Which would either make the recipients feel much better about their own year or make everybody feel suicidal.

It would go something like this:-

Dear all,

Sorry I haven’t been in touch much this year – time seems to have just flown by.  I can’t quite believe that it was this time last year that I was agonising over whether to spend Christmas and New Year with my children and my boyfriend or my children and my ex husband.  Thanks very much to all of you who wished me a Peaceful 2009, but IT DIDN”T BLOODY WORK.  I have had a rollercoaster year.  Not a roundabout year.

January started off badly with the loss of one of my closest friends to Australia.  February was even worse because that was the month my boyfriend’s ex-wife got my ex-husband’s number from me “in case of emergency” and whilst we were away with the children she contacted him and they started seeing each other.  By March they told us that they were together which proved to be a huge shock.  This trauma resulted in my boyfriend losing the plot and consequently losing me.  So I spent April feeling sorry for myself and May feeling even worse because we found out that my father’s cancer had come back.  Everything was slightly more stressful than usual because teenage son was studying for his GCSE’s.  Thankfully we found out in August that he did extremely well.  My brother also got married in August which was lovely but unfortunately  the day after the wedding my father went back into hospital for a major operation.  Three months later, he still hasn’t recovered from the operation after contracting an unknown bacterial infection but he is battling on. As a result my mother has had to delay her operation and is in contant pain.  She lost her younger brother to cancer earlier in the year and is having to deal with a completely mad mother and I am now single and my ex husband has just announced he is engaged…..

Apart from all of the above we are all happy and thankfully healthy and I find that with the help of two bottles of wine my sense of humour tends to return.

Looking forward to catching up next year – I’m not sure where I’ll be, I’m thinking about moving to Australia or becoming a missionary.  I will send you all a forwarding address ASAP.  It may well be Zambia – if so hopefully see you South Africa for the world cup!

Joy and Peace to you all

Lx

OMG NOW I”M FEELING SUICIDAL MYSELF.

So.  I’m not going to write that letter,  my friends will be pleased to know and what’s more,  come the end of this year, I’m not going to bang on about the past.  Onwards and upwards.  Time to move on.

I’m going to assume that 2010 will be a better year.

“HOPE”  Don’t you just love it?

As a russian proverb says “In the Kingdom of Hope, there is no winter”.