Phoenix Loves... Silver linings.

Since I arrived my folks have been super happy, but something happened recently that made their smiles a little bit smaller than usual. Sadly, mum's farfar (grandad) - my gammel-farfar (great grandad) passed away.

He had been ill for a little while so I think mum was prepared for it to happen, but she was still really sad and needed lots of cuddles from me and dad to cheer her up that day. Gammel-farfar had a great life and was an amazing 89 years old, which dad's maths tells me is 4628 weeks old! I'm barely 7 weeks old so can only imagine all the fun things he got to do in that time.

One of the saddest things about all this is that I won't get to meet him, but mum said mormor and morfar showed him a picture of me during his last days, which made him smile! Here is a picture of gammel-farfar at mum and dad's wedding a couple of years ago...

Gammel-farfar with gammel-farmor at the wedding.

When someone passes away their family organise what's known as a funeral for them, which is where all their loved ones get together, remember all the best things about them and get to say a proper goodbye.

Mum and dad have got me something called a passport so I can go to Sweden and keep mum company at the funeral. I've already started saving up lots of cuddles to give to gammel-farmor and mum that day.

This also means that I'll get to meet lots of my Swedish family and hopefully help put a smile back on their faces too, which will be nice. Someone once said that every cloud has a silver lining, and I think this is probably what they had in mind when they said it. Here I am with my passport...

Watch out world!

Watch this space for stories and pictures from our trip to Sweden at the end of March!

Phoenix Love. X