Grief is a strange thing, and it’s very much a personal thing. One person’s grief is not the same as another persons. I know grief. I know it well. I have loved and lost. I have been slapped in the face, personally and bruisingly hard by grief. A fair bit of my life has been […]
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It’s half term week for us. Some families have already had their half term break, some families are still waiting for theirs to start. We are facing ours. When I say facing, it sounds negative. School holidays, for us and me are a mix of pleasure, and frankly pain. We have a little boy who […]
READ MOREEcholalia and repetitive noises are common in a child with certain sensory issues. They find them comforting/stimulating or calming depending on what they are responding to. They are, however incredibly annoying and frustrating for people around the child with sensory issues because they are incessant, repetitive, loud and not always appropriate. Parenting is hard at […]
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It has been a long summer break, for us. Longer than normal, due to our school being rebuilt and giving us extra weeks at the beginning and end of the holidays. 8 weeks in total. In some ways it’s been lovely, but in other ways, it has been challenging. We have had lots of fun […]
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I sometimes feel that in the madness of life, and also with the little bit of extra input her brother needs, that my tweenager occasionally feels a bit left out, or neglected. She’s generally quite easy going (well, except when those tweenage hormones flare, but we are learning to cope with those) and we have […]
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Before I start what I really think, please note that I am very grateful for my little family who love me, and the friends around me who wished me a Happy Mother’s Day. I am NOT anti Mother’s Day. I am not anti celebrating motherhood or giving mums a special day, and this is not […]
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For me, Christmas is bittersweet. On one hand, there is the joy and magic of Christmas, and the fun and delight of family time but I balance that out with the lingering sense of loss and grief that tinges it with sadness for me, and probably always will. We have all the fun of planning […]
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Motherhood. The only job in the world that you land in with no experience, pay, no holidays or days off, and sometimes it feels like the only time you get feedback, is when people feel you aren’t doing a good job. This post is sharing 1o things that motherhood has taught me. Before you have […]
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When you are are having a VERY BAD DAY and you want bedtime to happen… Last week, we had a really bad day. I had a bad parenting day. We all seemed to have woken up in bad moods, and both the children, in their own ways, were not their usual selves. The boy had […]
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