It’s just a little cold… I’ve just got a bit of a sniffle… Got the sneezes… It’s still ok to come isn’t it?! No actually – it bloody isn’t! You see for my Bear, and hundreds of his friends, ‘just a cold’ can mean so much more, so before you send your snotty child to […]
A week from now it will be Mothering Sunday in the UK. Facebook is predictably going to be strewn with the usual status updates, photos and gushing of ‘ooooh look what I got’ ‘look what my little shits darlings (edited for the occasion because who can be cross with a chubby little fist clasping a […]
I was composing a blog post last night and I stopped mid way and deleted it – it was about how we were feeling let down and disappointed that Bear seems to be a second thought or something not special enough to make the effort for. It’s been three months now, noone has been that […]
I always knew that raising a (so we hoped) Neuro Typical child would have its bittersweet moments but days like these see the happy tears swirled into the sad ones. Today I’m watching The Bug sitting (on his bottom not on his sacrum) barely supported, looking for the toy, leaning towards it, planning how to […]
When you become a parent you accept that some things will never be the same again. The laundry pile will be bottomless, your handbag will hold a range of random ‘what the….’ items alongside a comprehensive ‘its ok Mama has one’ stash of useful stuff. You have to modify your menu to accommodate laments […]
The Bear and The Bug 