Photo diary: week 3, project 365

This morning we woke up to the first proper snow. My younger son was ecstatic, he could finally have a snowball fight with his father. We even managed to build a snowman. Later walking in town, we have spotted quite a few of snowmen, as many people had the same idea.

Our week was a very mixed bag. Sash needed a dental treatment in one of the clinics in Oxford, where they work with people who have special needs. This procedure has been postponed several times, for basically a year. He needed a sedation to help him cope, as they were also taking some blood samples to check if there are side effects from the current medication he takes daily. 

It was extremely stressful for him and everyone involved. Sash arrived home very subdued, still under the influence of the sedation, and looking very pale and haunted. My husband rushed to take the blood samples to the clinic, from where they were taken to the hospital in Oxford. A couple of days later we had a call from the clinic that the hospital claimed the samples were not labelled. I've seen the packaging, everything was labelled, so they have clearly lost or misplaced the samples (there were three bottles of blood). I'm still fuming. All this stress for nothing. To have more blood tests, he would need another sedation. 

My brother took several photos of my Mum's artwork, including this tree in the water. She painted it in the hot enamel technique (with porcelain paints, and it needs being fired many times at a very high temperature in a special kiln), from the photo I have taken of the local floods last year.

Eddie and I have been walking around St Trinity church almost every day for a breath of fresh air. As soon as the rain stops, we are out. We catch Pokemons and also do some exercise. Eddie runs races across the green. 

We've been also exploring the church graveyard, looking for the Harris family. I believe they were a local Quaker family. We are trying to figure out if any of the Harrises we found lived in our house. I looked up at the church webpage, but their records on the graves are very inconsistent, and if you input the name Harris, it brings no results, which is weird, as we have discovered at least five gravestones with this family name. I wonder whether it's worth registering on the Ancestry, to have a search on them. 

Eddie and I decided that when it's warmer, we'll dig out some of the snowdrops from our garden and plant them next to the Harris' tombstones.

I was just telling my Mum yesterday, "When the weather is warmer, I'm going to dig...", and she got worried that I was planning to dig in the graveyard.

To spare you more pics from the graveyard, here is a screenshot of a Sphinx from Wizards Unite, another game we play on the iPhone. It has beuatiful graphics, though the tasks are too repetitive, so we don't go on it as often.

Do your children eat mushrooms? Mine two refuse to eat them categorically. They wouldn't even try them, so annoying. I love mushrooms, my favourite recipes are little pies with mashed potato and mushrooms, risotto, and fried potatoes with mushrooms.

My strange child wears a vest in winter and claims he is hot, while I am wearing a warm jumper. I shiver, just looking at him.

One of Eddie's tasks this week was to make something creative with the toilet paper rolls. He made a pen holder. 

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