Blog Time!

I was pretty blue this morning, because they were leaving. I was sinking lower and lower until, my daughter came over and gave me a hug. That's all that was needed. Just a hug. I left my hair grey as it is getting now, at the request of my son, who said my natural colour would suit me. She told me he was right, it does suit me. The reality really struck me. I am getting older. It's funny though. I felt older. Not in a bad way. This time I started acting older. Not older exactly, I am what ever age I am. I was acting my age, instead of trying to hang on to my 'lost youth'. I am getting a handle on this. I am almost half a century, fer chrissakes. So I acted. I called her boyfriend a 'young man', in jest, just to see what it would feel like. He is from Kerry and has a great sense of humour. That is why i thought i would get away with it. And I did. It felt great. I scolded my son for smoking. He told me it was not due to me that he was smoking. It was peer pressure. Kindly letting me off the hook, as he always does. What is that about parental guilt? The self blame. When I was 15, I was advised not to smoke in the house til I was 16 (the legal age?). Permission to smoke? Thanks then, ok, I will then. I think she regrets it now, when I light up in her living room she hasn't a leg to stand on. Athough I really do refrain from doing that, morally I could, kind of. But it wouldn't be very nice of me. So he ignored my advice not to smoke in my living room. But she stepped in, and he listened to her. His sister commands much more respect than I do. She is good at that. I am going to resist saying she'd be a great mother one day. She already has me booked in for baby-sitting duties. God help the poor critters!

So... scrabble, charades, some crazy video game thing i didn't understand, (just pressed the buttons and hoped for the best) , oh and i discovered I am very good at wii - golf. I didn't even try and I won. How did I do that?

Apart from thinking I was going crazy some of the time, because I am really only use to it being just me these days, I really have to say, I am glad there is an obligatory festive holiday this time of year.