Every year I think about this photo and every year as the blosoms fall I think this is the year we can reacreate it, but every year it rains and ruins any chance. Well today I thought we could try even though the blosoms are not fully falling yet we went to the church yard and got the photo. If it stays fine nd the sun shines maybe we can get another with a carpet of pink again but I love it another great photo
The usual start to a Forster birthday this morning, we always start with Clare Grogan singing Happy Birthday I heard Reagan in her room way before our 6:30am alarm went off and when she did come in to our room she’d already curled her hair and was really excited to got see if she had any presents another tradition is also that I or Mommy go down first so that we can video the present opening. Breakfast after that and this morning was pancakes and bacon as requested by the birthday girl.
A little ride up the road on her new bike before she had to go to school. After school both Reagan and Lincoln went to the park for a bit before Mommy got off work and we went for a family walk although Reagan went on her new bike.
Tea was mac n cheese followed by cupcakes and scrabble all in all a pretty good birthday
Happy 12th Birthday Reagan Grace…
Reagan is at that age…and that age is 12 tomorrow, I know where has that time gone? Todays photo is what her Mom has spent weeks preparing and all night presenting to give her daughter the BEST 12th birthday she could give her.
Reagan is such a great child and she makes me proud everyday but occasionally she can forget just how much her mom loves her and doesn’t realise that her Mom would do anything and I mean ANYTHING to make her happy.
I hope one day that you get the opportunity read my blog and get to really know me and how I felt I hope its a great insight into me your dad, but most of all I hope one day you read this post and realise that you have the BEST mom in the whole world and the photo below makes you smile and think of her!
Happy Birthday little dude!!!
No not Lincoln but Reagan she is growing up so fast and tonight wanted Mommy to show her how to shave her legs which Mommy jumped at the chance to do because Reagan wanted her and sometimes that is the furthest from Reagans mind when her world is revolving around her no-one else matters. Tonight Reagan needed Mommy and I think Mommy loved that?
Questions like: What do I do? How hard do I press? where all answered as Mommy showed our little girl how to do an adult thing…
I hope she can be a child for as long as possible but I see and hear her changing, growing up which is only natural to do but that childhood innocence, once that disappears it’s gone forever and you only realise that when it’s too late.
Don’t try to grow up too fast “baby girl” there’s a lifetime to be an adult and it ain’t as great as you think and DEFINATELY ain’t as good as being a child
The best daughter I could ever wish to have she is so lovely inside and out and growing up so fast it’s frightening, an eleven year old soon to be twelve and you can see a lot of what kind of woman she will be in the future already and I hope I can help her become who she can be. I will admit though I find it very hard to know what to do most of the time when I see Mommy crushing it guiding her through each day and making being a mom look so easy, which I know it isn’t but she generally makes it look that way. Reagan and I can but heads a lot because she is lazy, unless it what Reagan wants to do, if it is not about her then it does not happen without some ‘coaxing’ shall we say?
That said what a strong young lady she is and more importantly she is a happy young lady too but she is growing up and she definately needs her Mommy to be there because she understands so much more than me what a girls has to go through to become a woman and I am so glad she can do that because that will be the most difficult to negotiate and i want to help but I will say I do not have a clue…not a scooby.
I try to encourage and be positive and be mindful that some of the mood swings maybe out of her control but sometimes I find it difficult to ignore the laziness and they might be little things but they all add up and I can not keep quiet and have to say something but Reagan will immediately go on the defensive and an argument ensues, they never fester but they can be spectacular at the time. I feel I will make her a better person if I do not let her just waltz though life feeling entitled and not realising that everyone else is picking up after her to allow her to do what she want because life is not like that
I love all of her she is my daughter and that makes me very happy
I spent today working from home while Jamie and the kids went off shopping at Cheshire Oaks followed by Spiderman movie, when they all got home they were all very tired but when they told me what they got up to there is no wonder. Apparently shopping required two circuits of the mall, a sushi lunch, more shopping, a film and ended with an hour in an arcade in which there was activity walls partaken which looked very energetic…? The best thing I thought was all that fun and not an X-Box or phone in sight!
Lincoln complained of a headache which was almost certainly because he was tired Reagan had been to a sleep over before Mommy picked her up on the way this morning so she was tired too and both went to bed early for a half term off school night haha mind you as I sit here writing this who knows if either are asleep or still up watching TV I geuss we’ll see in a minute?
I have the photos I choose each year as potentials and the photo below appeared while I was sat at my desk at work and it made me smile for two reasons the first because I know Reagan and Lincoln were enjoying the beach so much after wandering around Newquay all day it was great to get the chance to play on the beach for an hour and I love them being happy and I know they were in this photo.
The second reason was it reminded me of a photo taken of me 40 years earlier in exactly the same spot on a family holiday, unfortunately when I found the photo it wasn’t quite as good as I remembered it because there is no background on it to show it was definitely Porth Beach and more importantly I wasn’t on it hahaha. The photo below is not the one that immediately sprung to mind but at least I am on it and it does have the cliffs in the background I would be around Reagan’s age I guess and I would also be feeling as happy as the children do in their photo?
Lincoln’s conversation at teatime tonight was “If you could travel back in time when would you travel to?” and we had some fun with it but it got me thinking about Mommy’s and my answer compared to Reagan’s and Lincoln’s and it made me realise they have not lost anybody significant in their short lives.
Reagan would go back to Medieval times because she is learning about that at school, Lincoln would go back to when Shakespeare’s plays were being performed and watch him.
Mommy would go back to her grandparents in Wyoming and see them again a specific moment when they drove up to the house and her Grandma would be standing outside the house waiting smiling. I think because they figured so much in her childhood it was easy for her to pick that time and especially because today was the 23rd anniversary of her Grandma’s passing. I know the times Jamie spent at her Grandparents were treasured times because she talks about them often and always in a way that she wishes she could go back and experience those feelings again.
I asked if I would be allowed to take other people with me when I travelled back in time, Lincoln informed me that I could, so I chose to travel back to a Christmas when all my Grandparents would come to our house. These Christmas’s are great memories from my childhood and I would love to take my family back to meet all of them and I know they’d all love to meet Reagan Lincoln and my American wife I can only imagine what they would think of them I am sure they would love them and the feelings would be reciprocated!
The photos above are moments in time and although the faces might not look happy they were such happy times, great memories and definitely times I would love to revisit if time travel was possible.
Photo1 Nan Hilda (My Dads Mum), Auntie Agnes, Auntie Elsie, Gran Garner (My Mums Mum), Nan Nell
Photo2 Grandad, Me, Gran Garner, Auntie Elsie, Nan Hilda, Nan Poole (Nan Hildas Mum), Uncle Frank (My Mums Brother) Grandad Garner (My Mums Dad), Karl
Today was a busy day initially working from home and then out at surgeries in Warrington it was just another day but in the back of my mind was the boiler and if it will break on the coldest day of the year so far or whether we will have hot water to wash in etc but there was nothing I could do but hope it holds on until we can get it fixed or replaced, but I just work hard and money will sort the boiler so I am fine.
Reagan is suffering again with mouth ulcers which is worrying because she gets them a lot and has done for a long time now so Mommy took her to the Chemist who advised we take her to see a doctor because they are not going better or away and we have been to see the chemist before about it so we intend to get an appointment tomorrow to get her checked out.
Jamie has a cough that has hung around annoyingly and somewhat worryingly but she got blood test results that were interesting but inconclusive maybe asthma, it could be but I did notice that when we were off work over the Christmas period it went away which in my opinion suggests it could be related to her work and when she rests her voice it recovers so she is going to try a humidifier to see if that moisture improves things?
I was working at surgery in Birchwood today when a customer was taken ill which could have been a stroke because the lady became very disorientated and scared and she looked haunted when I saw her being lead to a quiet room. I have to say the staff were so caring and mindful of how scary and possibly embarrassing I was so impressed and intend to mention them tomorrow to my bosses. The ambulance arrived and I am sure she was looked after by them and I hope she is ok
There’s always someone worse off and it teaches me not to moan about myself until I take a look around at others!
We had a day out today in Stoke first, we went to see the couch Mommy bought while we were all isolating and got a VERY good deal in the boxing Day sales but we hadn’t actually been able to see it or sit on it until today. We were not disappointed it was lovely to look at and great to sit on even in the middle of a furniture shop! I saw the smile on Mommy’s face when we sat on it and the footstool too was an absolute bonus when we saw the size of it (and the storage it will create) along with the armchair means we won’t lose any seating space once we take delivery!
We treated the kids to Gourmet4 meal on the way back which Mommy had taken them too before and they had enjoyed but there were a couple of incidents on this visit, firstly we entered a practically empty restaurant and had to wait almost an hour for our food which really irritated all of us. When the food did arrive it was actually ok which avoided me complaining about the wait, but we probably won’t be returning because it was expensive for what they served and we could get better elsewhere with much better service!
The second incident happened during the wait….
