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Post date: Dec 30, 2011 7:29:8 PM
We got up Christmas morning, very early, and my nephew's fiancee and his children came round and opened their Christmas presents here with us at the flat, as we told them that Santa was coming here as well their own house, because my Mam and me both enjoy watching the kids open their presents... it makes it much more of a Christmas experience. From 8am, I was in the kitchen preparing the three-course Christmas dinner we all had... although with my illness, this year I had to have some extra help, so as I didn't forget what I was doing! We had soup, beef, pork and chicken, with all the seasonal vegetables, stuffing and gravy, and Christmas pudding and apple pie with cream or custard. Plus the compulsory Snowballs were liberally on flow, even the kids had a little one each and they relished it because they thought they were drinking adult 'pop'!
As Christmas Day is my nephew Roy's birthday too, we went to the local club, the Coronation Social Club for the evening, and Roy and I left about 9.30pm, because we wanted to get home and watch 'Absolutely Fabulous' on BBC One at 10pm! We saw most of our family and close friends in the club on Christmas night, and there was a disco on for family entertainment, but the club is nowhere as good as it used to be, and I really don't enjoy going in there at all now. I also don't drink at all now, with all the medications I am on for the Alzheimer's treatment and also depression and anxiety, so of course, just a few Snowballs made me feel light-headed because I haven't drank anything in nearly over a year!
Well, I hope all of you had have had a peaceful Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year celebrations.
We have all had quite a quiet Christmas in the 'Daryl Clan' family. I had my Mam and stepdad come and stay with me on Christmas Eve night so as they could spend the whole of Christmas with me, but my Mam, with her advancing dementia, gets very easily confused and frustrated when she is out of her own environment, and was thankful on Boxing Day when she went back to their secured accommodation flat just a mile or so away from me.
As the New Year approaches... I am certainly not going to reflect too long on what was good about 2011... because, to me, absolutely nothing was! I was diagnosed with a long-term, terminal, progressive illness, had the stress of moving my mother and stepfather from the East Coast over to near to where I live, I have had to fight off evil allegations, which were described by official authorities who helped me through it all, as totally malicious and false with intent, and in October I lost a good, close friend, who I thought the world of... so most definitely I will be glad to see the back of 2011 - it has, without doubt, been definitely the worst year of my life, and wouldn't wish anyone to want to go through it.
So I hope that your New Year 2012, will be peaceful, happy and that you achieve all that you want to, because as I found out in 2011, you just don't know what is going to hit you from round the corner! Enjoy life - live it - before it's all too late to do what you wanted to do.
Peace and love be with you all. xxx
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