Daddy and Holly's Deck Board Garden Chair

Holly has been a little poorly the last few weeks. It all started with a dark red patch that we noticed at the back of her throat a few weeks back. This prompted a trip to the doctors who was completely mythed as to what was wrong with her and subsequently sent her to have blood tests. The initial blood tests were scary to say the least as the doctor thought that there was signs of blood cancer. So after a very nervous week of waiting for further analysis of the bloods we have now found out that her red and white blood count is ok, but her platelets are high. So now they seem a bit more relaxed as they have ruled out blood cancer, but are now doing further testing to try and understand why the platelets are high. So worrying times....

With all this going on it makes you realise just how precious life is and that you need to spend as much quality time with the kids as you can. So last weekend Holly spent some quality time with her Daddy building a deck board garden deck chair just for me and her to use this summer. The chair was completely free as we used old deck boards and some left over screws that I had in the garage. If I do say so myself I think it has come out pretty bloody good and is very solid indeed. Holly now wants to paint it - in Rainbow colours!

Holly doing some DIY and helping me finish off our homemade deck board garden chair.

The finished article looks pretty amazing, will it looks as good when painted like a rainbow.

On a slightly different subject one of the things I really love about Holly at the moment is that I still get to read her bedtime stories. The boys are not interested anymore but might on the odd occasion do some reading on their own at night time. Holly's favourite book at the moment is a Princess magnet book that I bought her for Xmas. She literally has this book every single night and knows all of the Princess outfits off by heart. Basically each Princess has a skirt, blouse and crown which you have to put in place as you read the book.

Holly's favourite book, her magnet Princess book.