Sad Endings and New Beginnings
2 Months ago yesterday I spoke to my mum and she told me she had cancer. The next Friday, Adele and I drove from Canberra to Charters Towers to help move, her and my dad back to Ballina so they could be close to Brisbane to enable her to get treatment. Adele and I saw Mary for one night before we drove her and Al to the airport in Townsville, so they could fly down to Brisbane. That one night was so worth the 2,500kms we drove on Friday and Saturday. We then continued on down to Brisbane to be with her as they tried to diagnose the primary cancer so they could begin treatment.
We drove through Mundubbera and dropped my sister off with her family and stayed for 2 nights and saw my niece in her sports carnival. We then continued on, me driving Mary`s car, the whole way I was distracted by my driving buddy :
19 days after being diagnosed, my mum died at the Mater Private Hospital in Brisbane, surrounded by her 5 kids and husband, it`s the hardest thing i`ve ever faced and even today I have bad moments and I think I will have bad moments for a long time to come.
Her funeral was a pink affair, how could it not be with an internet handle of PinkFoxyLady? Pink ties for the blokes and pink dresses/outfits for the ladies, we arranged a pink coffin for her send off, which was as she`d always wanted, full of laughter, tears and flowers.
Mary was what I out of all her kids called her, people often wonder why, you have to differentiate yourself in a large family, ever tried yelling mum in a supermarket, or in a house with 5 kids? Mary was a big part of my life, she taught me all about fun, adventures and how to handle life`s little problems, I also got my fascination with technology and gadgets from her, I remember her resetting the BIOS on our first PC that we ever owned. she also taught me to fish which is what I did with her on our last trip to Ballina for Al`s 60th, we usually found time to fish when I was up there, we also tried prawning once which led to a funny story, i`m sure most people have heard.
The week after Mary`s funeral we found out something which changed my outlook, Adele is pregnant. I was lucky to be around the rest of my family when we found out, Mary had been praying for us to have a baby for years as it turned out after we read her prayer journal. Well it`s happened, just as she wanted, unfortunately my child won`t be lucky enough to meet this wonderful woman. People say she knows but I’m always going to be disappointed we never got to tell her. But all I can do is my best.
Adele is now 12 weeks pregnant. We had our first ultrasound a week and a half ago, we have another one on Thursday, we`ve been waiting a while to update our blog so we could share this news. And now my siblings and father can tell the entire world, I know they`ve been wanting to 
.
I`ll be updating more regularly from now on. Bye.
Themocracy
Ahhhh
So excited for you guys, and me!! Mum would be so so so so so so so so pumped…
Come live up here in Ballina
I love the photo of you Del and mumsy :0 The video of your travelling companion made me laugh!!! Then I cried. You guys are going to be the most amazing parents to this precious little baby:)
Hi,
I dont visit blogs regularly, but i liked this one.. miss you man and hope your doing good!
Miss mum, she was an amazing mother!
And you guys,gonna be the BEST parents ever!!
Lotsa Love
Kim
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thank you….