That’s wonderful, grannyA! You deserve to be excited. I don’t get excited about much these days I’m afraid, until the fifteenth of March when the new trout fishing season starts. Then I will be very excited indeed! Seems ages away 
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NanKate ??. Hope things improve for you soon.
What a heart warming story Grannyactivist - I hope you have a really enjoyable visit from your foster son and his friends x
NanKate - sorry to hear that you are having a dreadful time. I send my love and some 
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Oh that is fantastic grannyactivist how lovely. No wonder you are excited.
Compared with you, nothing at all really but my DD and I are going to visit the Christmas market in York this Saturday. We very rarely get to spend mother daughter time together, so looking forward to a good old gossip and hopefully a nice meal and drink, without MEN or KIDS !! 
I am excited because..........my foster son is coming to visit today. Hooray!! (He's also bringing his closest friends with him to visit his 'English family'.)
Nearly sixteen years ago a young teenage boy from Taiwan came to stay with me for a week while his homestay family went on holiday. He was here to learn English and although he had attended the local International School for a month or so he spoke barely any English and understood very little. He was overweight, shy and culturally adrift and we did our best to make him feel at home. We were so successful that at the end of the week he refused to leave us and return to his homestay family and begged us not to send him away; after several urgent phone calls between his mother and the school we were asked if we would allow him to stay for the reminder of his time in England and we agreed. He lived with us for almost a year and a half, taking holidays with us, celebrating birthdays etc. and eventually, at his family's request, I became his legal guardian. He did 'O' and 'A' levels and then went on to do a Foundation Degree, a BA (Hons) and finally a Masters Degree; returning to us for weekends and holiday periods. Eventually, after eleven years in the UK, he went back home to his first family in Taiwan where he now works as Business Manager in the family firm.
Since we first agreed to him living with us he has been a son to The Wonderful man and me, and a brother to my children. When he left I was devastated; I really thought I would hardly ever see him again, but he has managed to get home most years - and sometimes several times a year when he's heard I'm ill. He came home to attend their weddings when my son and daughter each got married and visits as soon as he can when there are new babies. I love him to pieces and am counting down to his 6pm arrival in great excitement.
What are you excited about?
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