The new look....

Heads down in a tablet....

Happy...

It is great when there two get on and have fun. It does happen a lot, which is great.

Happiest that didn't last.

Unfortunately Thomas got chicken pox the day after Boxing Day. He didn't get it too bad and he was able to enjoy most of the Christmas break.

Christmas 2013

Our boys were very excited about Christmas this year ; it was lovely. Eddy was concerned about meeting Santa in the middle of the night enroute to the toilet. Because of that on Christmas Eve he slept through.
Thomas didn't and was up a lot with excited eyes saying Santa brought some presents.....

Performing

Thomas has been involved with the school choir at Christmas and he has really enjoyed them. He has performed in a range of places ; here he is at the welfare hall at Tankersley.

Bright eyes

Still waiting for Dad to come out of hospital. He is making good progress with his walking and leg movement, whizzing around with his Zimmer. It will be good when he is back home, tomorrow hopefully. His house will welcome him back after the attempted breakin as well.
Am tired, Tracy is all stressed over impending ofsted, Thomas is a cow (in the nativity) and Eddy is developing a nasty cough, after getting lost in Tesco on Saturday.

Another op

Dad's had another operation this time on his neck. Initial signs are that it has gone well, he appears to have better movement in his legs. It is just a case of waiting now to see what happens when it all heals up. Fingers crossed.

Visiting again

Dad was in good spirits today when I visited this afternoon. He had a golf club friend there which was good. His op will probably be Friday after he has had another MRI scan today. Not too sure how many or which vertebrae they are working on other than the neck ones.
After the work email suggested we need 30minutes exercise each day, decided to take the stairs from A to N. I made it 315 stairs. My recovery time was quite pleasing. :)

Went in 8hrs

Sold on eBay for £15. Being collected today. Did another baby sale on Sunday which raised about £120. Not bad for just over an hour's selling. Still got lots of stuff, took some to the hospice and 6 boxes back in the loft. So raised over £320 in total at the two sales. :)

Bowling....

Because of the terrible weather, storms, wind and rain, we all went bowling yesterday. After the last time when I made the mistake of winning, we wanted Thomas to do better. However losing is not as easy as it sounds. Try as we might, with the bumpers up, we couldn't miss the pins and ending up scoring each time. Eddy had his own unique method which involved bouncing the ball off the bumpers and still getting spares. He ended up winning. I came second by 30pts. Tracy inadvertently got a spare on her last go and came third. Thomas doesn't deal with defeat well.
He did win the pool, and he was very good at the driving game. Too much time on the Wii!
Dad is still in hospital, will see him this afternoon, James not been over yet, his op probably taking place Friday.