Thursday's Child, Friday's Thoughts: Godparents

Friday, 20 June 2014

Family Photo Friday #24- 20/06/2014

On Sunday we celebrated Lowen's baptism. We had a beautiful day with our closest family and friends.

Trying to get a photo of Lowen's godparents proved tricky, however. Either the kids looked lovely and non of us were looking at the camera, or the kids looked like they'd had too much Pimms. Never work with animals or children, right?

I enjoyed looking through Caroline's holiday photos last week over at Becoming a Stay at Home Mum. She spends lots of time with her family and always does a great job of snapping what's been going on!

Usual rules...

Share a family photo from your week just gone. It needn't be a Family Photo Friday specific post, I don't mind you recycling! You can join in weekly, monthly or just whenever you can. It can be a formal portrait or a snap from your phone, something you posed for or something you caught when no one was looking. It could be from a day out, a gathering, an activity at home, it doesn't matter so long as it gives a snap shot of what your family looked like during the week that's just been.

Give us a brief explanation of your photo.

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The family you choose

Yesterday would have been my mum's 60th birthday. I spent most of the day feeling somewhat flat about the whole thing. She should have spent the day hanging out with her granddaughter and drinking champagne. Instead, E and I were hanging out at home and she didn't really understand why I was upset. It's fair enough.

Anyhow, although my biological family is aging and slowly depleting, I did spend some of my day reflecting on the ways in which my family has grown over the last few years as I looked over photographs of Dorothy's baptism last weekend.

Amazing cake from Dorothy's other Godmother
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Of course I now have a wonderfully devoted husband and a delightful daughter. And the three of us are set to become four. I still have a few relatives left on my side of the family, and D's family is huge in comparison. But there are some other people, who while not official on paper are also part of my wider family and I am incredibly grateful for them.

They come in the form of my two best girl friends. They are E's Godmothers, and I am honoured enough to be a Godmother to two of their children too. And thankfully, I also ~~approve of~~ think the world of their husbands, and their husbands are incredibly good friends with my husband. Family that all love each other! Hurrah!

One of them is like my older sister. We spend more time shouting at each other, falling out and making up than we do talking (OK, that's an over exaggeration...) but she's absolutely irreplaceable. The other started as a colleague when I was an NQT and then she was made redundant and my contract wasn't renewed we moved in opposite directions but kept in touch and now a day doesn't go by when we don't speak. Thank god for these two girls for keeping me sane and standing by me when things have been tough.

And although both of them live as pretty much as south as you can get and we're positively central here in the East Midlands, we plan months ahead to make sure we get together in some shape of form. I think that's testament to excellent friendships.