We’re in the grip of half term break and all things considered it’s going jolly well really. The best news of the week is that my Mum is now home from hospital. She’s still got a long recovery ahead and will have to wear the halo brace for sometime yet but at least she can now gather her strength and mend those bones in comfort!

The children have both been content to potter and although we’ve been to local parks we’re having a lazy week. My fingers have been busy though. As well as finishing off lots of toys I’ve made myself a simple moss stitch scarf. I just couldn’t resist this wool – it was love at first sight! It’s been fun to knit something on 10mm needles instead of 3mm and now I’ve switched back to toy knitting the needles feel tiny!

I’ve also been having a play with some pictures over on flickr and ordered myself a batch of moo’s new postcards.

All in all a pretty relaxing time being had by all here! Hope your week is a goodun too!

As a parent you often wonder if all of your nagging is in vain – do your kids really listen when you tell them to not talk with a mouthful of food, to take their shoes off in the porch or to tidy their room? Sometimes however you get a glimpse that some of it is sinking in. I went upstairs yesterday and found this taped to Amy’s door

Apparently to enter her room you now have to join a club but only if you’re a girl or Daddy – no boys ‘aloud’! And there are ‘ruls’ by which you must abide:
1. no pushing
2. no calling people names
3. no punching
4. have fun
5. no waking Amy up in the night
Meetings: sunday afternoon till evning.

Bless her!

Thanks so much for the continuing good wishes for my Mum. She is making good progress and has started physiotherapy. She’s been able to get up and begin learning to walk with the Halo brace and we’re hoping that she’ll be able to come out of hospital later this week.

Thanks too for all of the wonderful, generous bids on Rose bunny and to everyone who dropped by Rose’s website and made a donation of their own. Rose’s family are touched by your kindness and are extremely grateful and I am too!

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that I have a new link on the righthand sidebar (the little girl in the rose). This is a link to the website which is raising funds for a very special and unique little girl. Rose is the only person in the world known to suffer from her
particular genetic abnormality and is also diagnosed with Severe
Learning Difficulties, Developmental Delay & Autism. Rose’s parents are aiming to raise £15,000 in order to send her to a
specialised treatment centre in the USA. Hopefully through her
treatment she will come a little closer to being able to unlock her
voice and speak to her parents for the first time.You can read more about Rose and her family on this site.

Anyway, if you’ve recently won the lottery, aren’t quite sure that you need 5 bentleys and 3 swimming pools and are thinking of doing something more fulfilling and worthwhile with the dosh or even if you just have a pound or two to spare and would like to donate it to a very worthy cause please pop over and visit with Rose and her family. Alternatively you could bid on a very special bunny that I’d like to auction for Rose.

Rose Bunny is available now on my shop and will go to the person who bids the most by 10pm on October 28th.