Five!

Obviously much celebration about the Land of the Strawberries today! Which has been fantastic for many reasons, not least because of the sheer volume of lachrymose activity that has culminated this week.

So, Jojo has accomplished five years of being beautiful and blessed. He has weathered his storms, most of them in that black time that we can now refer to as 2008 because it is receding gradually into time and can be classified away somewhere in kind. More true to his name than we might have imagined five years ago he has indeed been strong and very courageous. (We still mimic Dr Livingstone's heavily English accented, "You're very brave!" But do so less and less!)

And I have accomplished the survival of September 2009! Here were some of the best bits- in a "count your blessings" sacrifice cum faith thing...