We did it!!!!
That’s right folks, we finally got a diagnosis of autism for Rufus. We have been fully aware of his neuro-divergent status since he was very young but our first attempt to get a diagnosis was back in 2019. At that […]
I’m impotent and I hate it
I am a problem solver. I see a problem and I work to fix it. I don’t mind failure because without failure we can’t learn and use that knowledge to improve, but at the end of the process I like […]
The War to End All Wars: My thoughts…
I have gone back and forth in my head over whether I wanted to write this post. Not because I think I’m wrong or that what I have to say shouldn’t be said but because I know that the tension […]
Enough is Enough
As anyone who has ever met me will know, I have never been a fan of the Tories. In fact a friend sent me a link to a website called ‘Fuck the Tories’ which sells jewellery bearing that slogan. However […]
Can I be more?
As a stay at home mum I am often considered by the wider society to be a glorified nanny. On forms I even have to tick the unemployed box or homemaker box. Neither of these boxes even begin to encapsulate […]
Bursting the Bubble
It has been just over 5 months since the schools closed, just over 5 months since the world as we have known it changed in a way that we have all struggled to grapple with. While the restrictions have loosened […]
Our Decision
When I started writing this blog I did it with the intention of being completely transparent and honest about my life. I didn’t want to hide behind a veneer of perfect imperfections – I wanted to tell the whole truth, […]
Anxiety in the time of Cholera
Ok, so cholera isn’t sweeping the nation or the world but it made a good title for this blog so…just go with it. I have always struggled with my mental health. I have swayed from depression, to high anxiety, to […]
My Spectrum Kid
For a little while now we have been coming to the realisation that there may be more to Rufus’s personality, that there may in fact be an underlying explanation for his idiosyncrasies. Rufus is kind, intelligent, brave and all around […]
Accepting the things we cannot change
So we’ve made it. We’ve made it to the end of week two of the Summer holidays. The kids have had swimming lessons, we’ve been to the park, gone riding on our bikes, had a new boiler installed (on the […]