May and June 2008...

My lack of blogging has been due to so many reasons over the last two months. In May I was incredibly sick with my pregnancy - yes baby number 3 is well on the way! I'm hoping for a girl as I've been so incredibly unwell. Plus I was unable to write due to a lack of computer - very distressing, everything that could go wrong did. My advice for a slightly stress free computer life, make backups, I hadn't and I came so close several times to losing all my data and pictures.

June arrived and with it unexpected illness for my mum. She was battling with cancer, and doing a wonderful job, but June brought pneumonia. I am so incredibly proud of the faith and determination mum showed throughout her illness and even prouder of Dad, Kate and Rich for doing such wonderful job at looking after her. Unfortunately despite mum's determination to hang onto life, Heavenly Father had other plans, and on June 12th mum left this life for the next. It is so incredibly difficult to express the depth of the impact this has had, especially on my own faith. I guess in simple terms, I can express how much I love my mother, how incredible the example of her life has been to me and in the same breath how much I love my Heavenly Father and how incredible his plan of salvation is for us. It all just feels so much more real to me now. I feel so grateful to have the truths of the gospel to comfort and give me hope.

Comfort, hope and courage is what we definitely need for the future, and what a future we have to look forward to. In the short term - being closer as a family, can't wait for Dad & Kate to move down to be with us, and then the arrival of a new baby, phew - life's going to get busy! And then of course the long term - being with mum again, definitely looking forward to that!