If you are a regular reader of my blog you probably know that my two boys both have a diagnosis of high functioning autism, sometimes called...

Securing an Education, Health & Social Care Plan to support your child's special education needs feels at times like being forced to...

I really, really did not imagine I would ever write a post with the title "when your child's playstation habit makes you burst with...

I love Christmas.  I love the preparation, the carols & cheesy songs, the parties, the socialising, the decorations - in fact I g...

I have four children, their current ages are 16, 14, 11 and 8.  In the eyes of the law however my eldest child is in a grey zone, hovering b...

We seem to live in a time of competitive parenting, and nowhere more so than London.  It's all about getting your child into the right s...

So what do you get when you put 11 very opinionated, passionate, at the end of their tether Mothers of children with Special Needs Children ...

Just blowing the dust and cobwebs off the blog before I begin..... not only has my trusty laptop failed me and just like in the early ...

We know the waiting game well, we parents of children with additional or medical needs.  Waiting for results, waiting for appointments,...

I took a little blog holiday over the summer as you can tell, mainly because having all four children at home means there are less hours...

When Daisy was nearly 7 months old she had a gastrostomy tube inserted as an emergency case.  It was an emergency because at the time we wer...

We are at the end of another half term and have made it through in one piece.  I am so grateful for every school holiday we get to spend tog...

In a couple of weeks I will be 44 Yes - hard to believe isn't it!!!  I don't know what I imagined my life to be like at 44 b...

I remember being about 8 months pregnant with Xanthe , Theo had just turned two, I was wracked with guilt about bringing another child...

A couple of weeks ago, someone somewhere googled “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers”. The phrase popped up in a blogging dashboard and str...

So why do I write this blog and bare my soul to thousands of strangers week in week out? I was pondering this following a recent thread on...

Well we are back from holiday and survived intact - just.  Daisy as always continues to amaze us with her resilience, courage and positive o...

We are going on holiday, a real family holiday.  This will be the first holiday in a long time.  We have been very fortunate to have two hol...

The quote above appeared on facebook a few weeks ago and for me it was a eureka moment, it encapsulated what life is like for a person...