Thank you, Saturday bum, long term presents

I love me a dainty title, don't I? :)

As you maybe know my 3^rd granny has fallen seriously ill. These news brought me completely down and the days till Friday night have not been good. She is meant to stay in hospital for now, but the doctors say that her chances are good. So, finally, after around 50:50 they have become more optimistic and speak about healing her, if …. They say she has to start her chemo almost immediately, but all of us are very hopeful and we are all simply grateful that she has this new chance. You know what, although granny is awfully focused on the months ahead of her, she is finding a way out of her protective shell and is pulling down some of her walls again. I am so happy about that happening! 

And I want to say thank you to all of you who have her in their thoughts, prayed and sent positive energy. I know this helped and I do not even have the words to say how much it means to me that you did that. Thank you, you are wonderful!

No surprise, throughout the last week I was more than tense and not only I was glad that hubby could help out. I got spanked more between Friday to Sunday than I would have imagined. I asked (twice) and hubby obliged gladly, because he would have taken action sooner or later anyway. It was not punishment. Instead I felt so much relief and these moments allowed me to laugh again. It is not I who carries the heavy burden, no, that’s my granny. But to see her suffer is horrible, and to see her retreat is not like her, well, the circumstances are not normal either, are they?  She needs time for herself too, to cope with what’s ahead of her. Still, I don’t want her to feel neglected or alone, and I want her to know that we all love her.

 I think the point is that I want to see her surrounded by love, so that she can take a lot of strength out of it. Well, the days have become better because the docs had all in all better news. We see it in granny and she sees the future brighter again too.

And while granny is showing much more of herself again, I was still not completely at peace with all this. Imagine that, after two intense spankings which I asked for, hubby even added a third one, but that was far less intense and my bum is very grateful for that. We had a wonderful reconnection which was not overshadowed by any negative thoughts. Hmmm, coming to think of it I couldn’t think at all. :)

The Saturday morning bum

Being spanked again is wonderful, well I have whined throughout last year how much I missed it. But suddenly we have to make sure that any marks are more hidden than ever. Especially from Friday to Saturday I get loads of arnica on my bum now, :) because of the baby swimming course on Saturday morning. I have not felt that self-conscious about being in a swimsuit for ages (maybe I have, but that's weight-related and different), I think, but suddenly I am looking for a mirror. We even had a Saturday morning bum review, to make sure no marks can be seen, or maybe only one. It was all ok. I had two big bruises right at the centre of the South Pole, well hidden under the swimsuit and I felt a little naughty in the pool, wondering if anybody could guess.

I have had a few bruises on my bum or legs for years and nobody cared, but that was in pretty big indoor swimming pools. In this tiny therapy pool though, you are suddenly so close to everybody that they can see it all. Imagine a sort of sardine tin filled with water, mommies and babies in it. Thank God the babies are at the centre of attention.

Nevertheless, our new Saturday morning bum control ritual will be there for a long time, I guess. :) 

I'd love to have one of these, the one on the right looks awesome and can cover a bit, too

On a maybe funnier side, I think in one of the last entries I mentioned that I am not the one who is able to keep a poker face. Ooops I did it again. A very close friend’s birthday is this week and we met yesterday … after I had finished her birthday present. We visited her, only a short visit, Tilda and I sat down and it took my friend maybe the time to pour in my tea (! she had the coffee :) ) before she told me that I had made a present for her. :( This sucks, but it was funny too and for the safety of everybody we should be glad that I am not a spy! … 

Since she virtually told me what her present was, I think I can tell here too. I made a new collage with different pictures, moms and babies who are close friends and family. So, the only major difficulty in that was to collect the pictures from all of us secretly. And nobody told her a word, they promised. I denied everything, but my 'Stop asking, it is supposed to be a secret' was either not helpful or far too late.

Christmas is soon - presents finished?

So, if you enjoy collecting things to put them together and arrange them nicely, I can absolutely recommend such a project. One project I have written about before, in some very old entry, was that I had collected funny things that hubby had said. Do that for one full year, carry pen and paper with you all the time (I do, but that’s primarily because of mommy-brain) and write all the little things down. It is hilarious and will make such a wonderful book present full of good memories.

You have to be really sneaky if you write things down, and this works best when you write the quotes down immediately after they were being said. Otherwise you’ll forget or use different words. 

 not mine, but wish I had seen them earlier!

Wishing you all a wonderful and most awesome second half of this week!