It's been nearly a year now.  It's been a tough year.  So many firsts; first father's day, first mother's day, first wedding...

There are two things that Daisy loves in the world more than her family or her good friends Singing Hands (don't worry Suzanne and Trac...

Sometimes it feels like I'm a character in some Orwellian nightmare.  Not because of losing Andy or because of any of the children's...

No, really!  When you write a parenting blog, to be shortlisted for an award in the Mumsnet Blog awards is the blogging equivalent of being ...

I try to be a positive role model to my children, I'm always out and about doing some sort of sport, running, swimming, cycling, I wa...

The Summer holidays are tough for families like ours, even more so now that Andy is no longer with us. When everyone is at school and coll...

When Andy was first diagnosed with cancer I found myself trawling the internet, trying to find good news stories about people who had surviv...

Both my boys have high functioning autism.  We have (with their permission) always been very open about this, celebrating their difference, ...