This ‘n’ That

Well things here right now are pretty okay for a change. I had a WooHoo moment this last week someone asked me how I was and I answered ‘ Well I am tired but pretty good right now Thank You’ and when the conversation was over I had a little bit of a weepy thing as I realised it has been so long since I have been able to say that. I think I made the right choice in not this cycle of treatment. I am hoping the feeling good continues as my son is starts school vacation very soon and I would like to be able to have some days out in London with him or doing some fun things. He deserves a treat or two as he is doing so well at school , he came top of his class in science in his end of year exams, he got A star for Chemistry, A for Biology and A star for Physics and I could not be more proud of him if I tried. I know we have our ups and downs but no matter what I am always proud of him and love him to bits. I took him to see a movie last night ( and I can’t talk about the film as my OH hasn’t seen it yet ), I have to say Transformers 3 really is a cool film and we did both it enjoy it very much. I kinda like sitting in the dark with him waiting for the film to start and talking about silly things.

Ronnii and Uji continue to be a source of joy, frustration and laughs, he is growing fast and getting rather leggy now and he seems to be constantly on the go. He did have a wonderful time at Crestie heaven when we went up to collect Joey for my friend. Oh my that wee fellow is a grand little man and he is doing so well under her care, I think he is enjoying being so well loved and pampered and he deserves it too.

I have booked a hotel room for next year as I am off to Crufts for the day to support two friends who are showing, My friend Bridget has the most beautiful Lhasa Apso’s one of which is showing and my other friend Cheryl is showing her Chinese Crested so this makes it doubly exciting for me. I have wanted to go to Crufts since I was 15 so you can imagine my excitement, plus meeting up with lots of great, wonderful friends who are also going to show support and for a fun day out. So if you get Crufts on TV look out on the toy and utility day for a group of mad looking ladies in matching t shirts in the audience and that will be us lot……….lol.

 

Love

Momma Tea

xxx x xxx

I have my positive hat

back firmly on my head again thankfully and life is looking better. The sun is shining today and I am of to my parents to spend some time with them and my son as I hit middle age tomorrow officially. YIKES ! ! I may be middle ages in years and my body may feel 87 million years old but thankfully my brain feels neither of them ( well not all the time anyway ). My darling boy informed via skype last night that he is going out today for a while but was reticent in telling me where, but he later informed me he is meeting a friend from his school bus…………… Yes my son has his first date ! ! ! ! ! Given the choice of spending time with his Mom or meeting a girl I think it is safe to say he made the wisest choice for a young man his age. They do grow up so fast though it doesn’t seem five minutes ago he looked like this.

I think I may have to do a my goodness look at how my son has grown up photo post soon………….lol.

Anyway I must go have a bath and make myself look presentable so will catch you all later, enjoy this lovely sunny Sunday everyone.

 

Momma Tea

Sunday Nights Soliloquy

It’s been a quiet weekend well except for when I was at my folks because my son is rather noisy. He does like to sing at the top of his voice and he tramples about like a herd of elephants.

My Saturday started with me getting up with the lark to get to the vets to pay half of Ronnii’s bill the other half if being done later this week so after  I had got them to explain the most confusing bills I have seen I left to meet up with my son and Mom. They were late so I was bloody frozen by the time they got there, as I had left the house without my morning coffee we went and had one and then wandered round Hythe for a while, Mom treated us to lunch and then we headed backs to Moms. Where I was treated to lots of hugs from my now hairy legged son. This was wonderful as most of the time he is either too busy with schoolwork or feels he is to big for hugs now, me I will never be too big or old for hugs with him.

We had friends round in the evening which is always nice especially these two as they are such a super couple, a darn good laugh and we both adore them to bits.

Today was grocery shopping for me, I left the OH in bed in the vain hopes Richie would not shout when I left so OH could get a lay in, no such luck sadly and as I was sailing past on the bus I saw OH coming out of our gate to walk Captain Shouty and Miss Bossy Knickers. I managed to get a few bits n bobs so the OH has something to open on his Birthday which was great and got a spiffy card for the furballs to give to him so think I have that all covered now.

Now I cannot go into details here but I am really fed up with people saying they will do something then not. I am starting to seriously lose my patience now but have no idea how to deal with this problem, no matter what way I look at it I see major ramifications and none of them nice. Grrrrrr this is one of those ‘it’s so not fair’ moments but the situation is really getting me down now.

Right onto something lighter now, my dearest Pop has ordered me a new wig for when my fur falls out again and I actually like this which is good especially as I have a wedding to go to in a couple of months and would really like to have long hair for that………….. Now I will, YAY for my Pop is all I can say.

Thats about it for now except life with the furry ones has settled completely back  to normal now thank goodness. It is so nice to have my normal furballs back !

 

Love

Momma Tea

Strange Sunday

My day didn’t start well, I was up and all ready and waiting for my Dad to collect me on route to picking my son up from his school when the phone rang. It was my Mom to tell me Dad would be picking my son up and taking him back there before him returning this way to collect me. Which kind of defeated the object of me being there to meet DS ( Darling Son ) for his return. So I said not to bother as it seems silly, so then I got all morose and moody and I ended up stomping out of the house. All of this so far could have been avoided if I had stayed at my parents last night as was originally planned.

Anyhoo I stomped up the road to get on a bus to somewhere when I decided to phone a taxi and head up to the school on my own, as it turned out I beat my Pop there much to his surprise. The coach duly arrived and a very tired and somewhat bruised DS got off with his neck brace on, he is in  quite a bit of pain and his gorgeous face is bruised but that will fade and he will still be gorgeous. He wanted me to go back to my folks with him which I did and it was wonderful to spend time with him and get a few hugs in. He will be seeing his own Doctor tomorrow as all him medical documentation from his hospital visit is in Italian so makes no sense to us at all. DS has said that his neck is straight when it should be bent !?!? Quite what that means is beyond me but I guess we will find out. The poor lad is exhausted but he did enjoy the trip which is the whole point. He seems to have gained some confidence which is great news. He needs to gain more confidence still though but this is a step in the right direction.

I am just so proud of him I could pop with it all. I am also heartily relieved he is not seriously injured I’m not sure what I would have done if he had been. No matter what he goes through health wise he always smiles through it bless him, he is growing up so dang fast I really do wish I could use the pause button on a remote on him though. I kinda miss my little boy although my young man is rather wonderful.

Anyway I did tell him how I got on at my review and he took it all in his stride, I also informed him his Dad’s surgery on Thursday had gone well but he didn’t seem to bothered about that one way or another but they do seem to have a love/hate relationship these days. I guess divorced families all handle things differently.

 

That seems to be it for now but I want to thank everyone for the kind words and wonderful support , You guys really rock !

 

Love

Momma Tea

Worldwide Moment

Tonight at 11pm (GMT) is the 2nd annual Worldwide Moment, a silent minute to send our thoughts and prayers to those furry, fluffy, bewhiskered, feathered friends who needs our positive thoughts and prayers. Those of them who are unwell or need that extra little help. A moment to think of all those we care about who have crossed the bridge and to those they have left behind missing them terribly. A moment the world can be united as a global community of animal lovers. A moment for peace, love, understanding, support and most of all joy, the joy of being owned by our animals, who give us pure unadulterated, non judgmental love . Who can ask for a more precious gift than that ?

Just a few of the wonderful ones who need the power of the paw.

Wonderful Wilf & his family

Who are relishing every precious moment he has left and still sharing him with the world.

Blueberry

Who is recovering from surgery for a lump on her head that we all hope is nothing serious

Luke

Who is fighting the fight against malignant melanoma

Shelby

Who has come so very far already but still has a way to go yet, a perfect pitty Princess

Firu

A brave loving boy evilly treated by humans but he is slowly fighting his way back

Sierra & her family

Sierra crossed the Rainbow Bridge very suddenly two weeks ago and my heart goes out to her family

My Gorgeous Richie

Who has a serious heart condition but never lets it interfere with his enjoyment of life if he can help it

My Sweet Molly

Who crossed the Bridge in September, not a day goes by when we do not think of her.

So Please join in at 11pm, ( GMT) , click HERE to check out the time where you live. We look forward to seeing you there.

With Love

Momma Tea

Lets all go puddle jumping

Please excuse if we don’t keep up with our blog comments or writing over the next couple of weeks . It is going to be a bit of a rough time with intensive treatment and feeling poopy. We will of course be reading all blogs that Richie, Ronnii and myself follow as they really help me to keep going. I can’t say I am looking forward to the next few weeks and if I am honest I almost cancelled and completely backed out of it for good. I am so tired of it all and of feeling crap all the time and my original reason for fighting so hard  now seems to have gone so I kind of wondered why bother……………… BUT I have new reasons to keep going at least for this round and we will see what they say at my review in December, I am not giving up but I may look at other ways of tackling the skanky-ness if it comes to it.

So keep smiling folks and enjoy each and every day no matter if it rains, snows or the sun shines. Look for the little things and stop now and then to smell the rain on the grass and listen to the crunch of Fall leaves underfoot. Go puddle jumping like you did as a kid and smile as often as you can

With Love

Momma Tea

Well She is here

We collected Ronnii today and our home is now complete with a Yorkie in it again, we are a family of four and I am no longer surrounded by testosterone Yippee !. Richie did his Captain Shouty routine when I arrived with Ronnii and I did my Mrs Stressy Knickers Panic impression. I did as advised by Wilma and Steve and left to get food and let them deal with the introductions without me stressing out and making things worse and they did brilliantly. After we ate Ronnii had a bath and was blow dried and she and Richie had their meals and cleaned their bowls. She is a little unsettled but that is understandable and Richie is needing extra reassurance which is being dished out big style. Right now the view on my right is this

and on my left is this.

So at this moment in time I am a very, very contented happy woman ! !

With Love

Momma Tea

xx              xx

Well the day has finally arrived

Later on our surprise will be revealed in all it’s glory, I am excited and nervous and all twitterpated. We are due to rendezvous at 2 pm GMT and it is a two hour drive back. So it will be a while before ‘surprise’ actually gets home at long last. I guess it will be a case of watch this space as it will be updated as soon as humanly possible. I do hope this all goes smoothly as I will be devastated if it doesn’t .

Love

Momma Tea

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !

Well I have to contain myself for another week yet and keep my secret just that secret until then. Ohhh but it is so difficult I want to yell it to the world. I am going to keep my great cakehole firmly shut though as I don’t want to jinx anything.

I didn’t get all the jobs done I wanted to but Richie and I had a nice snuggly day with cooking in between snuggles, I have a nice honey mustard gammon all ready for dinner tomorrow now and two big tubs of homemade stew base soup all ready for the freezer. The freezer will have to be chipped at though because someone ( not mentioning any names here but it wasn’t me ) left the blooming freezer door ajar Friday night and although nothing defrosted the freezer went into overdrive and is extremely iced up now.

My son has decided he is going to spend his Christmas with his dad this year and although I would rather he didn’t he has not spent one with him since we moved down here so it is only fair that he does. It does make life a little easier in a way as the OH and I had decided we would have friends round to us for Crimbo dinner and jollificational times. This translates into lots of silliness fuelled by much alcohol, talking of which I am going to hunt out a decent eggnog recipe it is one of the things we don’t really do over here but it always sounds so nice so I want to give it a go. I have almost worked out my Crimbo menu which is good it is just a case of checking if I have any fussy eaters I guess . My Mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas today and apart from a fully working slightly thinner healthy body I can’t think of a single thing I need so I am thinking I may ask for money to put towards a new bed as I really hate the one I have. I dunno it seems so early to be thinking about the festive season but I have found it seems to come around earlier and earlier with each passing year. Maybe that is an age thing but I know I am going to start preparing for Crimbo 2011 in the January sales buy the cards and things like that then anyway.

Anyway that is my randomness for the wee small hours done and I will leave you with this TPQ

With Love

Mollys Momma Tea

Bumholes & Barbecues

I’m having a bit of an angry day today, I’m not angry at anyone just angry in general. That’s not strictly true I am angry at myself for getting my hopes up about my review and I am angry with my illness for not being gone. I know these are normal feelings when dealing with cancer but i hate feeling like this so I get angrier. Still it has a slightly productive side to it I don’t mind doing the housework when I am angry so I have finally tackled all the shelves in the front room and they are looking pretty damn good even though I do say so myself. Next on this list is the kitchen then scrubbing the floors and I am hoping by then I will have scrubbed the anger away here’s hoping huh .

Anyway thats it for now I am off to scrub with Nickleback for company.

Love

Mollys Momma Tea

Silent Sundays

I am not liking mornings too much right now but that is understandable I guess. It is not hearing the tip tapping of paws on my floor that make them so silent and a bit sad. But I am doing ok surprisingly, yes I am heart broken but like I have said that is for me and not for my girl ( who is probably running around with all my other fur babies that have crossed the bridge before her and having an absolute ball ).

I have not commented on everyones posts and I am not sure if I will be able to if I am honest but please do know this all of your posts and comments have meant the world to me and are very much appreciated. To know my girl squidged her way into so many hearts is testament to her genuinely  unique Molly-Ness. She would be so very proud of  her furiends generosity in the donations they have made to The Little Dog Rescue in her name and we are so very moved by the gesture. Her Pops and I are missing her terribly but knowing that she has left such a mark on people who have never met her personally is just beyond words. I am going to carry on reading all your blogs as I consider you all my friends as well as my girlies furiends plus the fact you all make me smile so much when I read them ( JD & Max today with the blue pelican today was pawesome !).

I was asked to be a certain gentle dogs official godmother and nothing would give me greater pleasure, I will always have a very special place in my heart for Pip. He and Molly shared a special unbreakable bond and I know she will be keeping a special watch over him as well as all of her furiends.

Pops and I went into town today to see Mo’s Aunty Chrissie and we had Yorkie cuddles with Brandi and Baxter which was lovely a bit sad but lovely too but I know the cuddles were much needed especially by Pops as he is a man who wears his emotions on his sleeve bless his heart.

Anyway my friends I hope our star twinkles as brightly where you are as it does over our house.

With much love

Forever

Mollys Momma

30 Day Blog Journal – Day 20

Well peeps today I am supposed to share a hobby of mine , I have a few but am going to plump for photography. Many years ago I used to take hundreds of photos but with the advent of digital cameras my love of photography dwindled somewhat and not to sure why really. However recently my old SLR has been dusted off and my love has rekindled. Some of this is thanks to the crickets in my back yard but most is down to my Molly who just poses so well as soon as she hears the flashy beast come out. If you add to that the fact she loves to dress up then I have a natural subject .

This is my favourite photo of my girl that I have taken with my SLR so far

 

tatty bye for now

30 Day blog journal – Day 16

Today’s post is supposed to be a song that makes you cry or almost makes you cry. Flipping heck there are tons of them but there is one piece of music that is guaranteed to make the hairs on my arms stand up and move me to tears.  It is the aria O Soave Fanciulla from La Boheme

Don’t ask me why I love this aria so much I just do there is no rhyme or reason for it. As I was growing up no one I knew ever listened to opera so I cannot say it was down to any childhood influences but the first time I heard it in secondary school I adored it ( I am not positive but I believe is was Miss Gaunt the lower school music teacher who played it once ),  it was later used in the film Moonstruck and the reaction of the lead female character when she heard it was fantastic. I have always dreamed of going to The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden

to see La Boheme and who knows maybe one day that dream will come true.

 

 

Diverting & Digressing

I am skipping the 30 day blog journal for now while my darling Molly is the doggy hospital. She is very poorly and even though she is brighter today she is nowhere near out of the woods yet. I really thought I was going to lose her yesterday as she was that unwell and it all happened so quickly which made it even more frightening. One minute I was waiting for a taxi to take me to the station to meet our weekend houseguests. My OH was just starting to give my Molly her bath and all was fantastic and wonderful, however when  got back the OH said Molly had been very sick. She carried on being sick all night along with a wheezy chest, wobbly legs and shaking, So I did what anyone would do and laid a duvet and pillows on the floor next to her bed so I was close if she needed me. At about 10 after 4 my Princess stood up went tense then just dropped like a stone onto her bed and started having a seizure, it was not nice to see I have to say but thankfully it didn’t last too long and she settled down for a short while in between of her chucking up. I don’t know where all the vomit came from as she could not have had much left in her tummy bless her, all the while this was going on I was letting her know I was there talking to her and comforting her as one does but do you know she didn’t and hasn’t  complained once. I finally climbed on the sofa at 8am for a little sleep but at 8.30am the postman rang my bell with a parcel. In the half hour I dozed Molly had made her way to the kitchen and had a very messy, bloody poop ( I was surprised by the amount as she hadn’t eaten since the morning or drunk properly since noon ). Poor little love she could not stop shaking.

So we took her to the vet and they sent us to the animal hospital in Ashford where we told she had a heart murmur amongst other things and even though I had been syringing water into her mouth she was dehydrated so she needed to stay in hospital for tests.  It was heartbreaking leaving her there , I felt like I was abandoning her but she needs to get well again so not choice really. It was horrendous coming into the house and not having her waggly fuzzy butt wiggling around as she does her ‘ OH OH your home Mom and I am just so very pleased to see you ‘ dance . I felt even worse then as you can imagine.

The vet rang us in the afternoon yesterday to tell us her kidneys are failing, her white blood cell count way mega high and she had hemorrhagic diarrhoea. So my girl is on iv fluids, iv antibiotics, injections of antibiotics, as of this afternoon she has still not eaten or drunk anything but she is a little brighter in herself which is good the diarrhoea has stopped which is fantastic, her temp is down thank heavens as it was seriously high yesterday. We won’t know if her kidneys are responding to the treatment until they repeat the kidney tests tomorrow or Tuesday,.

I really have my fingers crossed that it shows improvement as she is loved so very, very much and  I honestly don’t know what I will do if anything happens to her. Even though we have only had her for 3 months it feels like she has been with us always I don’t think I could love her more if I tried. She makes my house feel like a home and fills my life with such joy and happiness. She has left paw   prints on my heart that will never go.

 

 

GET WELL SOON MY LITTLE GIRL.

I want to thank everyone from the blog-i-verse for all their wonderful messages of support and love for my girly. We really do appreciate it and I know Molly will be also, hopefully I will get in to see her tomorrow and I do I will be telling her about everyones wonderful messages, blog entries and support.

I cannot get over how bereft I feel without her, she is such a major part of my life.

Anyway until she is better I am not going to be doing the 30 blog journal.

Tatty Bye

30 Day Blog – Day 9

Today I am supposed to put up a photo I have taken and after much deliberation I have decided to use of of Lily Potter who was desperate to make a bid for freedom from the birthing box she was born in. She made it very clear she wanted out and her sisters Molly Weasley and Nymphadora Tonks were soon equally keen on escape.

This is one of my favourite photos of the kittens.

So that is the photo I have taken.

Tata

30 Day blog day 2

Today’s question is what is my favourite movie, well this was not too difficult for me to choose at all it would be The Seven Samurai. It was released in 1956, was in black and white with English sub-titles. It is the story that The Magnificent Seven was based on but even though I like that movie The Seven Samurai will always be my fav. Why I hear you ask well I guess I should tell really.

When I was small I was very much a Daddies girl and wanted to do whatever my Dad did whether it was helping rewire the house, laying concrete for patios or messing around with car engines getting covered in oil. If my Dad did it then so would I. My Dad decided to take up Karate so obviously so did I and I went with my Dad very regularly, not only my Dad went but so did two of his brothers so it was kinda cool for me to go along especially as my big brother wasn’t interested. We had a lot of social events such as disco’s, exhibitions at schools and film nights. It was at my first film night at our Dojo that I saw this movie, I must have been about 8 I guess and I remember sitting transfixed by this movie and thought it was the most brilliant thing ever. Sitting there with my Dad watching this film I felt like it was just me and him in the whole world and I had never felt more close to my Dad than I did that night. It was just so special to me and if I see the movie that feeling come right back to me and gives me the warm fuzzies.

 

So that is day twos entry.

 

               Momos Momma