Mum

Hi Everyone

Well as I said yesterday this entry is dedicated to my mum!!

When I was 3 she divorced my dad and brought me and my older brother up by herself.  It's not until now when I look back I realise what she had to go through!! 

In my younger years I used to say she was my best-friend.  I loved spending time with her because it made me feel close to her, like a proper family.  She can't drive so we used to go out for days when the sun was shining and we could all cycle there.  I remember one day we cycled from Musbury to Colyford, caught the tram to Seaton, came back to Colyford and cycled home.  I also remember cycling up to a car boot sale in Rousdon.  That was a night mare coz the hill to Rousdon is as steep as anything, but it was a good laugh coming home.

I'm not sure we were a very close family unit but we got through and that's the main thing.  When my brother moved out and it was just mum and me, we argued a lot more.  Eventually she got me a job at the supermarket and that put more tension between us.

Mum became pregnant when I was about 19 and this brought us closer.  She asked me to go to the scan with her.  Before Megan was born though mum moved away and I moved into Trina's parents house.  Since we don't live together things are certainly a lot better between us and I would say we are slightly closer.  It's the little things that she does or says that makes me smile most I think.  Such as when I split with my boyfriend I'd rung her a couple of times and on that second occasion she said that she felt guilty because she couldn't offer me a place to live with her.  I felt touched by that!

The other thing was recently she sent me a text asking if I had managed to buy some tickets for the Queen concerts.  I know that's a strange thing to get touched by, but it goes to show she thought of me when she heard it.

She's a lovely person and she's my mum.  Everyone who knows her likes her and she's a very joyful person.  Plus she's being a mum all over again to Megan and I'm sure that can't be easy - I think Megs is more of a handful then me and greg ever where LOL

God bless you mum - and every mum around the world coz you just don't realise how appreciated you really are!!

I forgot to mention the swans yesterday.  Every day when I walk to and from work I see these three swans, (I think it's mum, dad and baby), and they look at me when I walk past.  Every day I swear to myself I'm gonna feed them.  So yesterday with some old bread I went out expecting to have to walk half the river to find them and there they were right near the flats.  When I russeled my bread bag they came swimming right up to me.  They are lovely and I think I shall make that a regular thing at the weekends.

Today I've been for a bike ride up to St David's and back with a little detour in between.  There's a track that I've always wondered where it went so I followed it.  It goes to this little grassy area with seats looking out over a waterfall.  Me thinks I might visit there again LOL.

Well I've tried calling mum and she's not answering grrrr.........

Hope you all have had a good day :-)

Jen xx