Sunshine through the sadness.....

Today has been a very sad day for my family. My Uncle (My Mums Brother), passed away this morning ~ following a long battle with cancer. He will be very sadly missed and although we have all known for some time that the cancer was not treatable and that he was not going to get better ~ his death has still left us all totally devastated.

My Uncle Eric was the reason that my Mum and Dad met and married. Eric and my Dad were in the army together and became great friends. They would visit each others houses during their hoidays ~ and it was during one of these visits that my Mum and Dad met. My Dad took an instant 'liking' to my Mum and my Mum took an instant 'dislike' to my Dad!!
After my Dads first visit ~ he was leaving to return to his Regiment, he turned to my Mum and said "Oneday I am going to marry you!". My Mum just stood in disbelief, disliking my Dad even more (ha ha!!!). BUT ~ as the years went on they became firm friends and fell in love and 3 years after that first illfated meeting my Mum and Dad were indeed married!!

It is so sad that both Eric and my Dad are both no longer with us ~ they both died too young and it is at times like these that I firmly believe that the world is totally unfair.
I also believe that they are sitting together somewhere ~ each with a pint of beer and laughing and sharing their old 'army' stories ~ that is the picture I hold in my heart!!

Through all the sadness of today ~ my children somehow still managed to make me laugh (as only my 2 could!!). They were both sitting on the sofa ~ watching (would you believe) ~ the tennis from Wimbledon.......Lauren thinks that she is a tennis professional after playing the wii sport and was discussing with Daniel how well the 2 men were playing ~

Lauren "That man is really good Dan ~ look he is jumping high like this" (does actions)
Daniel "Yeah ~ he is hitting the ball......."
Lauren "Ooohh he missed that ball ~ did he mean to do that?"
Daniel "How do I know?" (at this point getting a bit fed up!!)
Lauren "He must be very brave playing tennis ~ that man....."
Daniel "Why?"
Lauren "with that bandage on his head........"
Daniel "What bandage?......"
Lauren "The white one on his head......."
Daniel "That's not a bandage ......it's a sweatband......"
Lauren "oh!!"

Mummy ~ Tries her hardest not to wet herself laughing............

So, you see ~ even though today has been yet another one of the saddest days of my life, there was a little bit of sunshine shining through ~ thanks to my precious, sweet , funny little children....