Extra in all areas…

I cannot imagine life without Theo, and although we weren’t expecting that extra chromosome with his arrival seven years ago, we’ve learned so much about ourselves, the world around us and what really matters in life because of its presence in our family. Disability is a magnifying glass – everything is slowed down, requiring more …

Transient Times

None of us have a clue about how heartbreakingly fast time goes when you become a parent. How it rips your breath away when you see how much your child can change, sometimes seemingly overnight. How Facebook memories has you peering, misty-eyed, at year-old photos of different, more rounded faces; how you wish you had …

Rewards and Perimenopause

When I started this blog I was three weeks in to motherhood.  Not the glorious, newborn blissful kind filled with wonder and congratulations but a cataclysmic one seared with fear and sadness.  So much was ripped away from me as a first time mother, I’d honestly say it took a good few years to come to terms with it all. I was …

At the school gates

After more than half a year at home in lockdown, Theo started a whole new universe of primary school on Monday 7th September 2020.  Let’s face it: the step is huge enough without a certain virus and a certain chromosome making the experience extra-ordinary. It felt like stepping through the next door, as in an …

Covid Diaries: on a different path, entirely… #2

Rear View Mirror Now we’ve done nearly three months at home, surpassing even the length of the longest of longest school summer holiday, a veritable bench mark for parents, I know, being the mother of a child with special needs and a one year old discovering everything and anything, my endurance has definitely been tested. …