A change of Season
You don`t know what love is until it leaves...
When I found out I was having twins 20 years ago it was quite a shock. In York you didn`t have your first baby scan until you were half way through your pregnancy, so at 20 weeks I skipped off from a teacher training day at my beloved Fishergate CP school to York district hospital to have a look at "Billy the fish" as we had nicknamed the very active baby. Turns out all the movement I felt whilst eating my fish and chips at Filey was indeed two babies.
After reassuring Mr N that the two heads were infact on two separate babies (!) we were delighted to discover Billy had a twin sister Lily in there too, the womb mates were very clear on the monitor but there was a problem. "Billy" had an echogenic bowel and I was offered a termination as it was an indication of an abnormality. I had seen them both swimming around on the screen and knew they were my babies and that was that... we continued with the pregnancy and they arrived in early January , on a snowy day ,both weighing over 7lbs and healthy.
It was one of the most extraordinary events in my life, watching them thrive and develop in synchrony has been a treat every day since. Watching them grow up, fall in love and leave is hard, highly emotive and fills me with equal lashings of sadness and deep pride. Happy and sad are two sides to the same coin when you watch your babies go off to college. It`s a new season for us all and the sadness is simply the price we pay for love.
This is a family favourite... I know they will always return home full of stories, ladened with dirty washing to my kitchen table where there is always love on a plate for them...
Lemon posset
600ml Double cream
2 large lemons, juice and zest
150g caster sugar
Boil the cream and sugar in a pan slowly until it comes to the boil, let it boil for 4 minutes then set aside to cool a little. Then whisk in the juice and zest and pour into 5 cocktail or sundae glasses. Leave for 4 hours in the fridge to set.
Serve with shortbread, made by Auntie Wendy (the recipe is a secret, I`d have to murder you if I told you it!)
I`m working on it... shortbread recipe to follow 😀❤
The affection and appreciation I get from my children is my definition of true love.
