upward progress

feeling a bit better today, I am showered and out of my PJs. `it was only when I decided to Hoover that I realised that healing, like growth, comes at its own pace and cannot be forced.

My children (particularly the boys) would have liked to force their growth! We measured their height (and that of any visiting friends or relations) on the kitchen wall and they noticed that they were taller in the mornings. Of course they both eventually overtook me ("Mum" in the box) just as I overtook my own Mum "Audrey, bottom left.

The rest of the kitchen wall has been painted but this corner never will be :-)