Friday’s Foster Care Blog With Harriet still under the weather, I am grateful that I work mostly from home so I am able to help with childcare with the children off school this week. Harriet is also dispatching me to
Saturday’s Fostering Blog We went to visit some friends today who we haven’t seen since they moved to London 18 months ago. Lauren had been invited to party weeks ago, and we had already said she could go, so we
Thursday’s Foster Care Blog After a few quiet days at home not feeling 100 per cent, I need to return to the organising of Christmas. Mum’s don’t really get “time-off” and I am no different. Charlie has to work this
Monday’s Fostering Blog Today is the first day of our half term holiday. It has felt like it has been a rather long half term. It has only been 7 weeks – but in the winter that feels like a
Friday’s Foster Care Blog In the business of this Christmas week – both for family and Charlie’s job – we decided that Charlie needed a new car. His car was written off last year when two youths careered into it
Wednesday’s Fostering Blog Alice has gone to a disabled activity day today. One of the activities she is doing is swimming. She has been looking forward to this for weeks. She loves swimming. I think that because she is a
Monday Fostering Blog Halloween. It has been advertised in pretty much every shop I have seen over the last two weeks. While we were on holiday in half term, every activity we did displayed Halloween images. It seems to have
Wednesday Blog So this morning we have travelled in to our local children’s hospital for Alice’s bladder surgery. This will greatly improve the quality of her life, and will enable her to eventually self-catheterise. She had been on the waiting
Saturday Blog Alice, having had bladder surgery earlier in the week, has been at the local children’s hospital for three days now. And by Alice, of course I mean myself as well! Three long days. Days seem to feel like
Monday Blog Today marks five days here at the hospital. It feels like she has made little progress. Alice is still unable to eat. She has pretty much gone on strike with taking sips of water, and her body is
Thursday’s Blog Today is day 8 in hospital with Alice. Yesterday we were all so excited to be given the news that bowel sounds could be heard – well bowel “flutters” to be more accurate. This was the news we
Saturday’s Blog It has been an interesting few days since Alice was discharged from the Children’s Hospital. It has felt like a huge responsibility taking care of her medical needs, with different medicines, looking after an indwelling catheter and dressing
