So. Given my tendency to overshare on social media, I thought I’d give my blog first dibs on this little tidbit…. Not too long ago — months, rather than years, and single figures in terms of how many — I was barely fit to walk to the playground at the back of my daughter’s school
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Our youngest, “complex needs”, ex-micro-preemie daughter started her third year of primary school last week. On the second day back, there was a curriculum talk for the parents, going through all the different bits and pieces they’d be covering this coming academic year. I listened as the teachers went through all the different elements of
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So. Best laid plans and all that… Life has a funny way of taking over and blog posts end up half written and then neglected. It has been a fairly crazy ride over the last couple of months — between illness, hospital stays/visits (not immediate family), death, drama, more death, more illness, more hospital stays
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So, yesterday evening, #5 was sitting on my lap and chatting away about her day. (In school, she “didn’t get on well with the colour green” in the morning, because she had had a dream about a green snake chasing her, but by the afternoon she “got on okay with green again”, after a few
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So, the last few months have been a bit crazy for us… Between car issues (best not ask), technical issues (apparently when your laptop is hanging on by one hinge for several months, it’s a good idea to get it fixed sooner rather than later, as opposed to whacking a lump of Blu Tack on and
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A.K.A. What we learned on holiday! Not long ago we returned from our first family holiday; 4 nights in Hafan y Mor holiday park followed by a couple of nights visiting my saintly mother in law in Dublin. It was certainly an experience! Mostly good, thank God, but there were a few hairy moments thrown
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(Originally posted on TCC in July 2018…) So, it’s summer time. The girls have been off school for two weeks now (45 days to go, not that I’m counting or anything…) so we’ve already had two weeks of fun, frolics and…. f….ighting. Okay, they haven’t been that bad! We’ve been in the middle of
