Weekends

Another weekend is upon us. I've just bid my sons Bon voyage as they are off to North Cyprus for a week and I am waiting for my daughter to pop in on her way to work. I also have my nephew and his wife coming this afternoon as we shall be taking them out to dinner tonight to a lovely little Turkish restaurant in town. We have become sort of surrogate parents to my nephew who is so much like my own son its scary. His father (hubby's bro), is not a very nice man and certainly doesn't appreciate what treasure he has in his own children or grandchildren. How can a person put money over their kid? It's one of those things I shall never understand but I can do nothing about, the only thing I can do is to ensure my nephew how much he is loved by others in the family, particularly us. I am not going to even try to be a substitute for his parents but my heart is big enough to hold him in alongside my own kids.
Just over a year ago a tragedy occurred and we lost his brother who unbeknown to us was in such a dark place that he took his own life, this was such a massive thing no one in the family failed to be devastated. If only...., if only...., of course if only doesn't exist but you would think the man would learn from his mistakes and start loving his surviving kids but that hasn't happened, he's still as mean and self centred as before blaming everyone and everything but himself.