Some Decoration Photos

Hello my friends,

Sharing some pictures with you today of our Christmas decorations.  They were taken in daylight (if you can call today's sky daylight!) and my camera is not as good as Mike's but it will give you a flavour of what our home looks like.

Mike will take some night shots later today or tomorrow. We miss not having our big tree up this year but now that we have a table and chairs in our sunlounge there simply is not room for a six foot tree.  We have a three foot one actually on the table and it looks very pretty at night.

We have foil decorations hanging from the ceilings in both rooms but you cannot see those on the photographs. Well, you can see a couple in the reflection from the mirror, but not all of them.

Mike has bought another small set of twinkling lights to put up outside the front door.  The Clematis needs cutting down for the winter so he will put the lights on the trellis that supports that. 

So apart from wrapping the presents we are finished with the preparations as far as we know.  The family are coming to us on Christmas Day so there will be the cooking to do but it will be wonderful to have them here and to see Nathan and Daniel full of fun opening their presents.

I went for my blood tests this morning.  O.K. getting there, felt a bit wonky afterwards until I had eaten something on returning home.  It was bitterly cold.  The woman who took my blood was very nice and it looks as if this time I will not have an arm turning black and blue which is what normally happens.

I have an appointment to see the Diabetic nurse next Tuesday afternoon and we are both hoping that the hospital will have the results by then. She says she will phone them if they have not been sent back to the surgery.

I truly want to be able to enjoy Christmas, not have to worry too much about my sugars.  Not that I am going to go mad.  I cut down on all Christmas food as soon as I became diabetic but the nurse has told me to enjoy myself regardless and not to worry for one day.  Easier said than done.

So my friends, I am asking you to send out good wishes, good vibrations and prayers that the results will not be too bad and that it will only mean an increase in my current medication and not the start of injections which is what I fear the most.  I am going to be very apprehensive next Tuesday as you can imagine.

If it is just an increase in meds then I can at last relax and hopefully go into the New Year in a much more positive frame of mind and put what has been a horrendous year behind me and hoping the cancer is behind me also.

Off to have lunch now.  Hope you are all doing well with your Christmas preparations.