It is 3am and jet lag has hit. We returned from oz yesterday after going there for daughters wedding and it has been the best month ever. I am not gloating but just proud of my family for helping me personally realise how wonderful family can be.
This was the first time the five of us had been together for years as daughter in oz, one son with own family and another travelling son meant we haven't been together for ages. Of course that's how it should be, they are aged 26 to 29 but with different lives and all very used to not being with us, they all made such a tremendous effort, all coming together on diff flights to join our beautiful daughter for her oz riverside wedding in the sun. Thrown together in her little first house, then to beach setting for a week, then on to small island house on another beach for a week.
We are a close family and they get on well but thrown together in tight spaces can be tricky and I have to constantly remember not to mother them but boy was I proud of them, laughing and joking, chatting and catching up. I was able to fund their trips as I didn't want their lack of money to stop this reunion and they didn't take this lightly but I said that they had paid me back a hundred times by being three decent honest thoughtful and caring people with active and interesting lives .
Ok I am gushing but please let me as I really can't see us all together again. Of course this is normal and we are all in this position but for many reasons it could have been a disaster as the cancer hospital weren't keen my husband travelled due to break in treatment and he came out separate to me to that was weird and my son nearly couldn't leave his disabled baby as he has a serious episode the week before.
Anyway we all made it and in my mind it doesn't matter if this doesn't happen again as the other son emigrates to Canada ne
