Aileens Last Visit =((

I hadn't been looking forward to today at all.. Aileen been one of only a very small number of people to pass thro my door in recent years and each fortnight i'd get excited at the sight of her car pulling up outside the house just as much as Nina did -i'm such a fool =( ...today was an odd session in that we knew it was the last one but it was like an unspoken secret... things went as per usual and Nina thoroughly enjoyed herself... and then it came to the time to pack up ... Nina and I had spent a couple of days making a card for Aileen using some of the skills that she'd helped Nina with over the previous months: sticking, snipping, glueing, drawing... we had so much fun and the results were so fantastic that i almost couldn't bring myself to part with it when we were done... Nina drew the face and the hair and stuck on the clothes which i cut out of some material that she had chosen and she stuck on the buttons and the hair bow with a little guidance =) ...as you can see.. the finished article really was brilliant:

I asked Aileen not to open it whilst she was still in the house.. that was probably completely wrong of me but at this point i was already having a good old cry and i don't think it would have taken much to tip Aileen over the edge... as she drove away from the house she didn't look back but she certainly wiping something away from her eyes =( ..Nina was waving and got upset that Aileen hadn't waved... too much =| too too much =(( ...of course, it doesn't take that much to distract Nina and she had a very special gift from Aileen that she didn't put down allllll afternoon: