With life comes death

As I start this month celebrating Alex & Jazz's pregnancy and the thoughts and expectations of becoming a grandparent I'm faced with the reality my mums death is coming closer. In fact as I tap away at this blog I'm sitting next to the frail empty shell of my mum. 

Mum, Boo to her friends and loved ones, a lovely special lady who I love so dearly. Now the awful disease is taking her away from me, but to be honest she was taken away from us along time ago. The evil of Alzheimer's disease, taking away the person you love, leaving a withered shell, full of confusion, hickedly pickedly words, making no sense at all. 

Oh precious moments are still here, mum smiles, puckers up for a kiss, but it's the huge grin when you arrive, priceless.

Glam Ma Jinx ........

The next stage in the cycle of life, Alex and Jazz are having a baby....... I'm sooo excited, shocked, thrilled and OMG it's fantastic the family will go on, the legacy of Rich & I will continue, doing our bit for humanity.

To have a brand new tiny person join our family, wow.

But hang on when did I grow up enough, the reality of my own aging mortality is creeping home, nothing new I know that and it's not always about me. Well in my blog it is, that's the point of it. It's so beautiful to think your own flesh and blood is creating their own, and the thought of holding a tiny little person that's part of us.

So 7 months of excitement preparing for the big day, and getting used to the idea that I'm a Glam Ma and Rich is Grumps.