Sad News In LouLouLand

Me And My Godfather Around 1978 

Hi Guys x If you follow me on twitter then you already know that over the weekend I lost someone that was very dear to me, my Godfather x

Judging by the difficulty in finding Godparents, Godfather, or Godmother cards in the majority of card shops. Godparents perhaps don't seem to have the role in children's lives that they used to, but they certainly had, and have a role in mine.

Families are complicated in so many cases and my family is no different but my parents chose my Godparents from within the family, and I'm forever grateful that they chose my dads cousin and her husband.

They've supported, and been there for me in so many ways over the years, from attending school concerts and carol services (I was in the school choir believe it or not!), to spending Christmas with us every year, and ultimately being there with us on the night that my dad passed away. My Godparents were probably the family members apart from my mum that I'm the closest too and losing one part of that support team hurts.

Over the past few years things haven't been easy for them they were both well into their 80's and if you've follow me on any social network for a while then you'll know that they've had their fair share of health problems ranging from the big C, to my Godfathers stroke around this time last year.

You always think that the people that you love are going to be there for ever, but one of the certainties of life is that they won't be, and last week my Godfather was rushed to hospital, and instead of being released after a day or so, and declaring he was fine, in the early hours of Sunday morning with my Godmother at his bedside he peacefully slipped away

Thankfully my Godmother has has solid extended family group to support her but I can't imagine what it must feel like to lose your soul mate and your husband of over 60 years. Although like most family members we butted heads on occasions with rapidly differing views on certain topics and modern life, I will miss him terribly he was a firm stabilising influence in my life and a real gentleman to boot.

I won't be taking a specific blogging and You Tube break but my family is much more important to me at this moment in time, so posting and uploading may be sporadic for a couple of weeks. In reality you probably won't notice much of a difference but I thought I better keep you updated just in case I disappear for a while x Thanks for your kind words on social media,and thanks in advance for you support and understanding x

Goods and Bads

Hey my loves welcome to this weeks goods and bads x - just one bad today x

Bads

• Put another pound on this week :( I have started some new medication so my doctor says that may be making me eat more I am a bit disappointed but at the same time my doctor told me not to be disheartened it will be hard for me to lose weight because of medication and lack of activity but I can do it

Goods

• Less than a week to my birthday :) - have a few little events planned including a meal with my bestie and a shopping trip with Mummy Lou which I am excited about  :)
• It was my godfathers birthday yesterday so I had a nice day with some of my family :)
• Finishing Project 10 Pan - I really didn't think I could do it but I've proved I can - thanks to all the lovely people who have left me such sweet comments on either the blog post or the videos xx
• Blog Sales - thanks to everyone that bought from my previous sale update all you goodies should either be with you already or on their way x I will be posting an update probably on Wednesday night so I'll keep you posted x
• Mummy LouLou is thankfully feeling much better now - whatever virus she had has really taken it out of her but shes definitely on the mend thanks for all the well wishes x

All in all pretty positive from me today :) I have a few posts planned for this week including a little product rave, a little ASOS haul , and maybe a little product review and giveaway - thanks for sticking with me and a big hi and thanks to my new followers x`

The Return Of Goods and Bads

Hi Guys - I haven't done one of these posts for a while so I thought I'd start them up again for you :)

Bads

• I thought I'd start with the bads and the biggest bad is obviously the offending foot/ankle/leg eek - I am walking in my cast shoe without my frame now but it's isn't half giving me gyp - as well as been beyond itchy and dry, I keep getting little stabby and naggy pains particular where the clips came out, and my legs are aching like hell grr

•  Feeling a bit bleugh generally my cold is gone pretty much bar my nigh on continuous sore throat but I still don't feel myself, I feel down, and  unmotivated about everything and that's not me - everything even blogging seems like so much of chore for what seems like little reward. My sleeping is awful and everything
• seems like a chore - I hate feeling like this and want the old enthusiastic LouLou back  :(
• My godfather has shingles :( he's OK but he's in a bit of pain and he's in his 80's so it's a bit of a worry

Goods

• Hospital on Wednesday fingers crossed I can get the cast of doom off my foot
• Apart from my godfather my families 2011 illness/accident crisis appears to be over, whilst I was in hospital 2 other members of my family were in different hospitals at the same time, shortly followed by third - 2011 certainly didn't start that well for us hmm
• Sticking to my Project 10 Pan and not buying anything! - need I say more I haven't been tempted by a hardly a single thing in the past few MAC collections - is my MAC obsession over? I've also not been online shopping - normally feeling bleurgh is an excuse to buy but I've been good. I am starting to realise that shopping only gives me a little boost that to be honest doesn't last - lets hope I can keep it up
• Having said that about shopping -  I did receive a little parcel this morning the last part of my Next sale order - I placed a sale order on the 22nd December and it came today!!! To be honest I had forgotten about it but I'm keeping it, it's a lovely cozy grey winter cardi with a black belt pretty essential I am sure you'll agree especially since the snow is back :(

Well this was a big uppy and downy post wasn't it - hope it wasn't too depressing for you - oh another good - new followers - hi everyone and thanks for clicking the follow button I really appreciate it :) I'll see you later in the week with a hospital update post, a review and maybe a few randoms :) See you soon xx

Happy Easter

Well the week ended on a happy note - I've had a bit of a rough week with me and my mum feeling under the weather , and my godfather being admitted to hospital - thankfully though they think it was just a virus and he was released in time for the Easter weekend.
So if you celebrate Easter hope you've had a good one so far - as per usual for my family Easter is a time for lots of yummy food so today I did a bit of Easter baking :) First of all I made the customary Easter chocolate cake - normally we just make a normal gluten free chocolate sponge but after watching this video from the lovely Sarah - I decided to try this Nigella Lawson recipe for Birthday Custard Sponge - I used gluten free flour and replaced a tablespoon of that with cocoa powder for a chocolate kick :) I then filled it with the custard butter cream and topped it with melted dairy milk and mini eggs - yummy!



I also made the usual chocolate crispy cake Easter nests again with mini eggs

So I am a bit chocolated off I haven't even touched my Easter eggs yet - oh dear - but I do have two super cute Hello Kitty ones :) Happy Easter xx