Mothers and daughters

Not a lot of sleep last night as I had thunder and lightening accompaniment around midnight and I was rather restless afterwards even though I was really tired. It was the first thunderstorm of the summer and it was really quite nice watching the sky light up from my bed.

Still went on our picnic to Maldon even though the weather looked very undecided at one point. And to be honest it did start off a bit rocky in another way too, as my dear mama was waiting on my doors step when I came back with the picnic food and was not the most happiest of mummies which rubbed off on me! Still the day improved both weather wise and with us two having a moody each, it was really quite lovely down there.
I did wonder at one point, when did I move up into the older generation bracket?
As I sat there in the car with the doors open, eating ham rolls and reading the Sunday paper, I guess I had noticed that I was surrounded by my friends who had became grandparents, but it was that moment I realised that I had moved up a generation notch. Scary!
I sat reminiscing as a family of four walked past to their car, where they sat and ate their sandwiches. They had two little boys still holding on to their fishing nets as they ate their sandwiches and mother said that she could remember bringing me down here and doing exactly the same thing and here we were full circle still eating sandwiches out of a car, although ours were shop brought now. Mother and daughter all grown up. I will still feel like my mother's little girl even though I'm in the next generation bracket, because I still am my mother's youngest daughter.
A lovely day!

Lots of love Debbie x