{"id":10805,"date":"2014-03-24T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/?p=10805"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:42:29","slug":"a-simple-moment-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=10805","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a huge crowd of people there are already here in the hall!
\nBrothers daughters husbands mothers aunty and her husband all in one room…..<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what I expected for ‘a family party’ but not this! All from one family! <\/p>\n

We are here to celebrate Helen\u2019s 100th birthday.
\nI have been in awe of this lady and this celebration since last May when the fact that it was to be her 100th birthday in ten months time and would we like to come? Just dropped into conversation.
\nMy goodness, of course we would come!
\nAnd so we have travelled across the country to help celebrate this wonderful lady\u2019s special day.
\nHelen is very sprightly, a little bent until you remind her to stand up, she laughs \u201cThank you dear I do forget. It is Miriam isn\u2019t it? I sometimes want to call you Marion but that\u2019s Gerard\u2019s brother\u2019s wife isn\u2019t it?\u201d
\nI am touched to the core that she remembers me. The last time I saw her was ten months ago.
\nAfter working with memory loss for so many years it is life affirming to be with someone who is 100 years old and<\/em> whose memory is intact.<\/p>\n

She is on her feet visiting all the tables of little groups of cousins, aunts, sisters, nannies and great grandchildren. (She hardly sat down all afternoon and the beaming smile never left her face).<\/p>\n

My brother came by our table. (We were a straightforward mix of my husband and my brother, his sister, brother and brother in law… sorry all names were followed by a family connection this afternoon.) Helen is his partner\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s Helen\u2019s cousin\u2019s husband. No, the child belongs to one of her children\u2019s children. I can\u2019t remember which one\u201d Gerard said, shaking his head and giving me a hug.
\n\u201cThanks for coming, Helen is delighted and I am thrilled to have some of my family here\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Helen<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you Alexa at Trimming the Sails<\/a> for the place to record my Simple Moment in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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