Hi All, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and that 2010 will prove happy and healthy, peaceful and prosperous for you all!
I hade a strange Christmas, culminating in the best news ever, with just a little worry along the way! On the 20th Dec., after three days of quite deep snow, very unusual for the East Anglian region, my heating system failed, so I went to my daughter's for the afternoon and night. Thankfully, I was sleeping there when Claire, 32 weeks pregnant, had a bleed, and went into hospital, so I was on tap to look after my grandson. Claire came out of the hospital late on the Monday, but had to return for injections to make the baby's lungs viable just in case the babe came early. Same Monday, I had to go home in the morning to await the arrival of the plumber, who duly arrived, and thought he'd fixed the heating and the water. Not so! About eight that night, there was a horrific noise like a cat being strangled, and the system died once more. I was starved with cold, so on Tuesday morning, I abandoned ship and hurriedly went to my parents' in North Norfolk. We had a quiet, but enjoyable, Christmas, but couldn't raise Claire and her husband on the phone on Christmas afternoon. She had been taken into hospital, and her baby - Phoebe Isobel - weighed in at 5 lbs 11 oz, at ten in the morning on St Stephen's Day. The baby is still in intensive care, but is doing well, and all the medics are pleased with her - I came back home to help provide food and all the other incidentals like washing and ironing of clothes for the family, and also visit my new grand-daughter. She is beautiful, and seems tiny, but is gorgeous. However, being an early baby, the crochet jacket, and hat I made for her will doubtless not be fitting her for another six months! (That was the lace part!) I am now making a very simple crochet shawl for her - thankfully, crochet grows quickly - which I will hope to finish by the time she is released from hospital. But - a wondeful Christmas present, for the whole family, especially when it is close to the first anniversary of my husband's passing last January. Love and God Bless you all, and do keep Claire and Phoebe in your prayers, and hope that they'll both be out of hospital very soon. Carol - Suffolk UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
