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2001-05-31 - 11:55 a.m. My DB brought me flowers Monday :o) Okay, so they were some he'd won, not bought, but still :o) He also called me the same morning "because it had been such a long time since we spoke last". I feel like I'm in a chick-flick these days! :) But even though I didn't see him from Friday morning till Monday evening, I had a TERRIFIC weekend! I picked up M (my best friend's mother) in the airport Friday evening, and it was so great to see her again. We spent a wonderful weekend together, walking all over Copenhagen, went to Tivoli (a famous amusement park in Denmark. Apparently what inspired DisneyLand), went to church, went for a walk in the nearby woods, and TALKED like it was going out of fashion. I ended up missing New Zealand something terrible, but it was worth it! I hadn't expected it to be too difficult to say goodbye to her - actually hadn't thought much about it at all - but when we stood in the airport again Sunday her voice was broken, and she had very red eyes when she said goodbye. That surprised me a lot, and 'did me in' too. Especially when she ended by saying "You better go now, or I'll start crying." Believe me, I was chocked up too! But at least I know that she loves me as much as I love her. She is my 'second mother' :) Unfortunately the weekend didn't end all that good. Shortly after I returned home, my aunt called to say my granddad was having another of his 'episodes'. He has parkinson, and it has gone to the brain, making him paranoid. He wouldn't take his medicine, was sure that it was a conspiracy etc. Dad and auntie have no idea what to do, because it will only prove him right, if they try to get him to hospital. Poor grandma who has to handle all this, and accept that he gets angry with her, when she tries to get him to take his medicine. I haven't heard my dad cry like that since back in 1991 when I was very sick. It was even more scary this time! I've been blessed by the fact that though I'm 21, I still have all four of my grandparents. I would like that to continue for some years yet! Being reminded that they are mortal frightens me!
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