Gosh, has it really been four months since I have updated this blog? Like all of us, it's feel like time has gone really quickly, but ...

"if you want something you will make it happen...if you dont. you'll find an excuse". A colleague shared these words with me m...

Daisy loved school.  Nothing made her happier after a hospital stay to put on her school jumper and know that it was a school day.  Always t...

It was always our rule to wait until 12th December to put our Christmas decorations up in our family.  That's my dad's birthday.  Ev...

This is the makaton sign for sad And this is the makaton sign for Daddy ...

So how do you tell your children that their daddy has cancer?  How do you tell them that it's advanced cancer and he will need a huge re...

Retard - that word hits me like a knife through the heart.  9 years ago it would not have.  I did not even know what the politically correct...

In my life before Daisy I did not have a clue what the term "learning disability" actually meant,  I could have probably quoted ...

I've been thinking more and more about mental health issues and emotional welfare over the past few months.  When you are so bogge...