Michael's best bits.

Our wonderful Little Man.

Michael 13/08/1997 to 23/11/2010

What is there to say? He is gone. My lovely boy went to sleep on the settee, in his favourite spot, and left us at 10 15pm. I miss him so much.

Summer 2010

My goodness doesn't time fly by. Here we are at the beginning of Oct. already. So what's been going on, well mum and I did the race for life in July which was great fun. We had the first of Michaels birthday bashes, which involved a black stretch limo, a meal at Frankie and Benny's and the Shrek 4 movie.

Shirley, Mark and Eric arrived at the end of the month. The grown ups went to see Much ado about Nothing in the park, in the rain... Only in Britian!

Then the main event, we drove in convoy to Bath for two nights which was great. We got to torture the boys with a walking tour around the city. Shirley saw an exhibition of Princess Diana's dresses and Phil and I relaxed at the Bath Spa.

Then down to Longleat Center Parcs. How can three days go so quickly? The highlights were the raft building and bike treasure hunt for the Pflugs and my two big boys. The jewellery making and mini golf for me and Michael and the Abba Magic evening for Shirley and me.

So now, Phil is back at work, the Pflugs have gone home and the boys are back at school. Stephen is seriously into G.C.S.E. mode, or so he tells me. We have started looking at sixth forms for next year, and he is growing up fast. Michael has not been to school much. He has had a chest infection for weeks, which he had just shaken off. hasn't stopped him starting his Christmas list though!

Halloween is on the horizon. and half term beckons. Where does the time go?

A Fundraiser for Clare house.

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2010..

Time has as usual been flying past. Stephen is growing up so fast. He is now a full Black belt and First Dan in karate. He passed his bronze Duke of Edinburgh and has signed up to do the silver. GCSE exams are looming and he is becoming a lovely young man. Michael is keeping us on our toes as usual. He loved being back at school and has decided that Maths, Science and Spanish are his subjects of choice. He was full of life and bounce when he went back in Sept. Unfortunately when we started the new drug regime it took it out of him a bit.

Christmas day was great. The kids were generally pleased with the pressies from Santa. Then things took a sharp turn down hill. Michael was in hospital again from Boxing day until New Years eve with another chest infection. Poor Stephen's birthday was a bit of a non event. He did get a home baked lemon cake though. Anyway it is obvious the new treatment regime is not working and Michael once again frightened the living daylights out of us by not taking in enough oxygen. But I am determined to coin a new phrase, " Doing a Michael " because yet again he has come back from the brink. He is still under the weather with a "smokers" cough. Not that this stops him playing on the computer. We still went to see Strictly Come Dancing Live in Liverpool.

The rather snowy weather has also given Michael the idea that he would like a wheelchair that goes on snow! So once the cough improves we will be off to an indoor snow dome to have a go at that.

As for Phil and I, well lets say Phil's hair is getting scarcer and mine would be grayer, thank goodness for hair dyes!

Summer Pics.

Summer 09

It seems as if the Summer has flown past. Shirley, Mark and Eric have been and gone, and we had a great time. The weekend in Center Parcs was wonderful. The weather was fantastic which helped. Shirley and I did very little except watch the boys be action men. No tree was left unclimbed, zipp wire unzipped or forest animal not shot full of arrows ( not real animals!!). The hardest past of the day was deciding where to eat. Our favourite place was the pancake house, particularly the day Shirley, Mark, Michael and I watched the boys sailing from the deck outside the restaurant.

Michael had his birthdays, I think it came to three in the end. the first was a bowling party in July, the second his real birthday here where we had fun watching the kids building marshmallow towers, and the third in Ireland. It did take us two attempts to bake the cake, I forgot the sugar the first time.

Ireland was fun too. We had a brilliant day out in Dublin with a tour on the Viking Splash, a WW2 amphibious vehicle which drove us around the sites with a very entertaining guide and a sail around the canal basin. The trip also involved shouting at and startling passersby. It was great craic. All the cousins got on like a house on fire. Yolanda handeled the influx like a true star. I think there were 19 of us in her house at one time.

We all had a great time. So with batteries recharged we will soldier on into the Autumn.