Rain day mood

It has rained all day today, about 4am I heard it coming down in buckets and it's still going. Not that I'm complaining, I'm not, we need the rain. But this much of it? And our garden thermometer has kept glaring at me that it's not nudged any more than 0 degrees celsius all day. So definitely a day for indoors.

But with the cold and the wet and all the tension and stress of the past week, God! it's already been a week. How can time go so quickly and yet it was yesterday? So with all that my mood has been very sombre today.

So I decided to get out a very personal picture and scrap it. I've had quite an emotional time putting this page together. So simple it is really, but it's taken 8 months to really look at that picture again. I took it about a week before dad passed away. He was in hospital, mum and he were having a quiet moment, probably one of his last lucid moments he had where he could communicate with us. I snuck out my mobile phone and took a picture with the camera. Didn't aim in particular, the light was shining in from the window at probably the wrong angle, it's not overly clear, I just needed to preserve that precious moment.

After thinking long and hard about it, I decided this page should go in our family history book, I think it's a beautiful fitting farewell to dad. This is what mum used to say to dad every night when she'd put him to bed during his illness. So whilst I've shed many a tear this afternoon, probably over everything - dad, my mother-in-law, my grandma, I'm glad I put all that emotion into this page.

Credits here.