Progress of a kind

Mr Half has finally put in a leave pass to cover the 4 weeks I could be having off work soon(ish) so I've been able to book flights to take he and I out to a family apartment on the sunny island of Tenerife. It's going to be strange taking him out there, as the village is like my second home, and I did alot of growing up on my visits over there when we were visiting before mummyhalf moved permanently, while she was there and since she subsequently moved 'home' to the UK with my almost step dad. I say almost because sisterhalf and I live in hope that they'll decide to get hitched to save us from nanahalf's incessent nagging about when she gets to buy 'a nice hat and frock'. Naturally being the only one in my family other than my mum in a long term relationship I get harassed every time I go back to visit which is in turns irritating and sweet - nanaH has said in the past that if not for the age gap she'd probably have gone for mrH too, her late husband was when she met him on medical leave from the merchant navy during the latter stages of WW2 and she firmly believes some of his experiences contributed to him suffering from a form of PTSD throughout his entire life.

This of course worries me somewhat....I dont want to turn in to my Nana!
Then again she's planning her 90th birthday party and has VERY strong ideas about exactly what should happen, has brought up two strong minded independent women in the shape of my mum and aunt, was married to my grandad for almost 50 years- that landmark was sadly missed by a matter of months when he finally succumbed to assorted cancers which he'd been fighting for almost 10 years (yeah apparently stubborn comes from all sides of my family) - has beaten cancer herself shortly after she lost grandad, and thanks to finally accepting that she needed it has recently under gone cateract removal on one eye and is currently terrorising the neighbourhood in her 'leccy wheelchair while awaiting the go ahead to have the other eye treated.

Maybe my Nana is exactly who I want to take after, she's a tough auld bird, but loyal, stubborn about the things that matter most to her, and honest even when it hurts to hear it, with two adult children who love her faults and all.