Beautiful Day

An intermittently sunny day today - so good after a grotty week. I think we've all had enough of the gloomy bits of the last few weeks, so here are some good things that've happened this month:

• I've spent time with lots of great people, some of whom I haven't seen in ages;
• a bunch of us have put a lot of effort into looking on the bright side of life ... and, ahem, death;
• Sweeney's grown another centimetre;
• Dad made me two bacon sandwiches today;
• Mum made me a bread and butter pudding on Wednesday;
• Sweeney says "okay, Mum" sometimes when I ask him to do something;
• I've lost 2kg;
• Sweeney's first ever child care person, Sue, came to the funeral. We haven't seen her since March last year;
• I made it through a death-defying hangover yesterday without taking a nap or biting anyone's head off;
• Sweeney and I have both shaken off our colds;
• I had some delicious drinks with Liisa last Friday night at a variety of delightful bars;
• the cat's decided to sleep somewhere other than with me. Brilliant - she's a real bully and pushes me out from underneath the duvet.;
• I got to see an episode of 30 Rock this week;
• Sweeney got to spend time with his Nana, Grandad, his Aunty Catherine and his cousins Katie and Philip;
• Sweeney got to spend time with a gazillion people who told him how much he looks like his dad;
• I've got a new respect for hospices;
• Father Anthony told me that he rates Martin's odds of getting to heaven are running at 100%; and
• today it was intermittently sunny. On Monday it's supposed to be totally sunny.