Update on latest events

Ladies, I am about to vent! I need to! Here goes - I am sitting in hospital with too much time on my hands and kind of waiting for the phone to go or an email 'How are you Mum?" NO not happening!  My second eldest son travelled an extreme journey to visit me last week (bless him) - a little bribery of the air fair helped, but hey it was worth every cent! The other four children I have to jab, chide, beg to get a lousy email or amazingly a phone call.  What did you do wrong as a parent I hear you wondering, well ladies I was firm but fair, and gave lots of cuddles and hugs, and most of all I was there when they came home from school!   I was talking about this to a friend the other day and she said she gets the same 'too busy' signal from her childen and she wondered where in the dickens did she screw up - I said to her, "You were and still are a fantastic and wonderful Mother' you stayed home for your kids the same as I, you kissed their tears away, smacked their bums when they deserved it, but hugged them and told them bed-time stories.....if you screwed up, then so did I, and I don't believe that for one minute.   We were taught to respect and honour our elders, whether we liked it or not and it was firmly ingrained in us from childhood.  My Mother was not the most endearing person in the world, but my husband and I left everything behind in Queensland to travel down to Victoria to be with her in her last days, no regrets!  Well ladies, give me your input...............need it darlings x x x Josie