I'm just so excited

On Monday morning I will be standing at Heathrow Airport, barely containing my excitement as I await the doors from arrivals opening and the sight i am waiting for........

My bestie friend arrives from Perth in WA !!!!!!!!

We have been best friends for over 30 years even though she has lived the last 12 + years in Australia. I havent seen each other in over 3 1/2 years, the last time I saw her was in the first few months following my marriage break up!!! Boy is she going to be surprised when she sees the new me!!!! Instead of the frail, skinny, nervous, scared of her own shadow, mouse she said goodbye to as she left!!!!!

I couldn't love her more if she was my sister, my family are excited too, ask Mum, its like another daughter to my Mum too, as for my brothers they simply adore her. In fact she and her family, herself, her husband and their four children aged 8 - 16 years, their plans initially were for me to drive up to Heathrow about an hour away, have breakfast with them, then they were catching the train to Cornwall, where her husband's family are expecting them, they will spend a couple weeks in Cornwall, then spend the last 10 days of their UK stay with me I didn't like the thought of them arriving tired in the UK then having to swap and change trains all the way to Cornwall for the next 5 hours, but what could I do, I can't fit a family of 6 plus luggage in my little bucket!!!! My brother, heard of the plans and immediately suggested that we both drive to the airport and drive them as far as we can down South, as long as he had time to be back for his shift at work Isn't he great!!!! So we are collecting them from Heathrow and taking them so they now only have an 1 1/2 long direct train to their stop!!! My friend is amazed and so excited too.

Its going to be fantastic to see her, I can't believe how exciting its going to be

When things were at their worst for me, it was also very grim for her, I was very ill, she heard her dad was dying, got an emergency flight from Australia, I met her at the airport she was going to spend 24 hours with me, convinced I just needed a friendly shoulder to cry on and all would be well, in the first seconds my appearance had her so horrified, I weighed less than 7 stone was vomiting up to 8 times a day, crying all the time.............she knew it was serious, as soon as we walked in the door to my home, the x rang and she heard me crying on the phone as he made the usual threats and false accusations, she took the phone off me and said "Thats enough!!! I'm here now, Helen is coming with me to my family for a few days, the kids are going to her Mums, you aren't to call her or contact her, leave her alone she needs a break!!!"

I was screaming "What have you done!!!! I'm going to be in such trouble !!!" But she assured me, she was going to not leave me until I knew what I wanted. Over the next three weeks, she tried never leave me alone with him, even though her father was given days to live, she still put me first, any occasion she left me alone with x she would have to run in and stop some kind of attack on me!!! It was pure Hell, no other word for it!!!

Before she left to go back to Australia, her father tragically having died, I had made up my mind, the marriage was over and I never went back. Three onths later, her whole family came to the UK for a 3 month visit, she arrived with the younger two, the week before, in that time, x turned up at the house, assaulted me in front of the boys and she had to step in again and order him out of the house. He had even been ringing her in Australia crying and begging her to talk me into taking him back, but she was firm and told him never to contact her again!!!! I LOVE her so much

And now in 3 days I get to see her again!!!! Only this time I can be ME!!!!!!!!! We've already decided we dont need sleep in those days she is staying with me, were going to talk talk talk...........She has a lovely husband, he would love the chance to investigate x because he is sure he should be in prison!!!!! But none of us care anymore, her chldren are gorgeous.

Don't worry once we're together..........I promise pictures

3 more days.................I'll never last that long!!!!!!!!!