Ups and downs

Ethan was chuffed to find out at school today that he’d won a creative writing competition. As well as the certificate, he was given some notebooks and pencil set as a prize.

Sadly the day went downhill after that, as I received a call this evening to tell me my Aunt has died. She had early onset dementia and has been living in a nursing home since my Uncle died last year. It still came as a shock though as apart from her memory problems, we thought she was fairly healthy. She was my Dads sister but had no children, so my sister and I are her closest relatives. Very sad, especially as she was the last member of my Dads family we were in touch with.