Families - mine in particular

It's often said that you can choose your friends, but not your families. It's true of course, but if I had the power of choice I'd choose my family every time. It's easy to become over sentimental in this sort of post, but my family are - well, just the best.

My wife and I were talking the other night about how we're going to go on immediately after the operation. She is in the process of making arrangements to work from home. Now I didn't know this, somehow it never occured to me to think about afterwards. It then transpired that my daughter has also made arrangements to have time off - using some of her valuable holidays that she may well need later in the year (she marries in late August) Not only that, but my son has been working on changing shifts and finishing early so the he can be around too. One way or another it seems that I'm not going to be left on my own for quite some time.

The thing that sort of fills me up, is that all these arangements are being made without any of them telling me about it. I don't even know if they've told each other!