Where has the time gone? I cant believe that it is almost 3 1/2 months since I wrote the first post on here...yes, I did take a month off to go to England to welcome Noah B...and coming back to greet Calleigh's on her arrival has made the second part of the journey fly by at break neck speed....but stilll!! I have less than 2 weeks left so I am officially in vacation mode and in my spare time, I have taken to sitting on the upstairs balcony in the glorious breeze..... thinking, reading and simply looking at the view.
As you can see by the hair...the breeze is actually a wind and it can swirl at any time! lol
I have read lots of books...memoirs, sap, cook books and currently, an autobiography. I have a "beach book" ( Atonement) and a "home book" going at the same time. This one is courtesy of Jamie's visit in January...Bret Hart's story is not ordinarily something I would have picked up, but with my '80's immersed in the WWF.....ooops WWE....it is interesting to see all the names I once knew. I still think of the Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth story line with fondness! lol
I spend lots of time on this verandah just daydreaming and letting the mind's computer running on autopilot. I can make myself laugh with those thoughts...remembering funny things from the past days or even just the past. Random thoughts... like yesterday, I was thinking about my all time favourite movie...Witness....my favourite tear jerking movies...Love Story and Brian's Song... and why was it that my sisters were prostrate on the floor crying after Terms of Endearment and I could only sit there and laugh? Heartless they called me...but the image still makes me smile when the computer stops there, 18 years later. :-) Well...you get the idea...very random! lol
It will be very sad to say goodbye and there is no doubt that I have truly fallen in love again. I know now that we are both different...a little older, a little wiser and both with a little less innocence...completely different but at the same time we are the same as we always were. And in the case of "my island"...It has never really been about the people....it solely is about the sheer natural beauty and what it does to my heart.
That feeling has been enhanced by the fact that it has been very very windy lately and I have come to realize that I LOVE wind!!!!!! The winds have also been stirring up the ocean bottom so the water in the Atlantic has been an exquisite turquoise colour...to die for! I am telling you straight out...the wind, the sun and an ocean view, to a 50 something woman...it is orgasmic!!!! lol!!
The sunbathing Calleigh. (She hates the wind as much as I love it...something about trying to breathe through it!)I am not looking forward to leaving Miss Calleigh either. There are so many changes so quickly when they are this small, plus...I have already experienced the feeling of leaving one grandchild and it is a sad one.
Luckily though, I wont have too much time to be sad when I get home....because...first Kirsty and Lee are coming with Noah B on the 29th of April and I cant wait to see how much he as
grown since I last saw him! Then if all the stars align properly, on Mother's Day ALL my children and their amazing spouses (except Lee who has to go home on May 6th, but he has already spent a Mum's Day with his mother in law..and 1 a year is always enough! lol!) will be in Canada at one time...a very rare occurrence..believe me! and no better Mother's Day present exists! Dinner on Monday May 12th is at our house and all are invited to see my girl Calleigh and my boy Noah together!
The ever smiling Noah!
4 comments:
Hi! I just wrote a whole bunch of stuff that got erased...I just found your blog thru Kirsty's blogs and find it really cool to be able to see what's been going on with everyone. The pics you took look like they are taken just to the left of my old house. Am I close? I'll be down there with my water baby, kaia, this July...will you be back by then? It would be great to see you (and everyone else). I haven't been back for nearly 10 years now although it feels much shorter...When i get there, I may not leave. Enjoy the rest of your time there and hope to see you this summer
kb...I was sad when you left TO but reading your last post made me feel slightly sad to see you leave St. Kitts
I love the photo of Calleigh, the chubby legs, the pose on the beach chair, the fair skin/hair...remind me of another little girl (no longer a baby).
We'll welcome you back with open arms!
I never thought I'd say that I was relieved to see you reading a Brett Hart book. At first glance I thought it was Fabio on the cover and started to wonder if perhaps you'd had a little too much sunshine!!!
I agree with Kirsten. I was a bit worried myself. I won't tell the King. I am sure he would have some words about his book.
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