I do love the fact that my favourite tenor, one Placido Domingo, has a name translation which means Peaceful Sunday. And that is what I am having today after all the excitement and ricocheting off the walls and ceiling which was my Saturday. I know this is a book blog and have a couple of reviews to get up but at the moment I just need to relax and have a think and just enjoy being so happy. When I woke up this morning it took a moment for me to remember the events of yesterday - you know that moment between sleeping and waking when there is a sense of 'something wonderful has happened'? Then I woke up fully and lay there in bed just mentally hugging myself at the thought I am now a grandmother.
Have just had a talk with Helen who was awaiting the paedetrician all clear and then they will be at home this evening, and she sounds so happy and apparently my lovely son-in-law James is totally besotted with his little daughter and joy reigns supreme.
Because Florence arrived three weeks early they were caught on the hop a bit so just want to get home and hole up for a few days and so, much though I want to hurl my body on a train NOW, I am going to stick to my plan which was to visit next Sunday, which is also my birthday, and it will be a wonderful celebration. I told Helen and James that St Delia's book would come down from the shelf and I would make a casserole and take it up so they don't have to bother with cooking a meal.
I spoke to Kathryn yesterday who is in Rio de Janeiro and is beside herself that she is now Auntie Kittie, as she wants to be called, and also cross that she is out of the country. I told her that it makes no difference really whether she is in Leeds, Colchester, London whatever, none of us could get to the hospital but I do know how she feels. We are hoping that if she feels up to it after the long flight home, she can come over on Sunday as well.
So Random readers all, I ask you to bear with me for a day or two until I am coherent once more and calm down. May I take this opportunity to say a huge and heartfelt thanks to all of you who have left messages for me, both off and on blog. I was in such a state of high emotion yesterday, that every time I read another congratulations or Mazel Tov, I burst into tears, every time I received a phone call I wept down the line, a dear friend who has also recently become a grandmother dropped in with tulips and congratulations, my ex called me in the afternoon and when I picked up the phone he greeted me with the words Hello, Florence's grandfather here and by the evening I was a sodden wreck.
I tell you, please check the financial pages of your paper today and check out the shares in Kleenex. They should have gone through the roof by the time trading opened this morning....
Thank you thank you thank you all.
Oh dear I am off again. THIS HAS TO STOP!
