Behind The Child

I had a certain feeling about today when it started, not in a peaceful and gentle realisation that the night was over and the morning was he...

Picture this. I'll spare you the graphics. A fairly ordinary kind of a day. A child who just happens to be doubly incontinent wakes up. ...

WARNING: This is NOT a post for the weak-stomached. Non-carers may wish to back away now. So, Sunday morning, there I was all dressed up for...

The good news is, Mog's CT scan was today. The bad news is, the hospital forgot to tell us. More bad news; the van failed its MOT yester...

That if you put pepper down to discourage the cats from pissing under your daugher's bed, and that if the cats piss there anyway, and yo...

Some interesting assistance from Little Fish; funny but distracting. One pump charger forgotten and returned home to collect. Frustrating, b...

Yesterday morning, I dropped our van off at a bodyshop to have a paint job. It all worked brilliantly; Mum came here to sit with the girls, ...

There's a line from Buffy which a friend and I use from time to time - "Our lives are different than other people's". Gra...

Oh the joys of kittens. I wouldn't actually mind quite so much if they'd actually come up and say hello occasionally. At any time ot...

Stuffed marrow. Even better the second day; Mog fighting for a bite and Little Fish taking a mouthful, then gasping for a sip of water to ta...

No not me personally. Mog had an iPod for her birthday. An inspired present this; no more lugging around cases of CDs, she can have all her ...

Thursday today; this should be my long day "off", the one day in the week when both girls are elsewhere for at least five hours. I...

Of the non-pictorial kind. One four year old child, discovering the joys of an overhead hoist with buttons to take her from one end of the t...

Wheelchair clinic at school today. Mog's wheelchair was already in school, so her buggy needed to squeeze back into the bus to get her f...

is no fun. Especially here, in the one shop which still sells children's clothing. Now if I'd wanted something for the girls I had s...

Omeprazole is the clear liquid stored in the 'fridge. Domperidone is the clear liquid stored out of the 'fridge. The two are not int...

Consider yourselves warned. But on Friday, as my morning happened, this little ditty somehow made its way into my head. For anyone familiar ...

Spring has sprung and the garden is waking up. I'd make this into a beautiful "Tia and her girls spend a brisk spring day doing who...

A small child in a bathtub, washing herself. A song bubbling from her lips, a sweet, sweet sound, the tune "Skip to my Lou", the w...

Helen House is about ten miles from here, a twenty minute drive. Today on leaving though, we had a trek to the farthest outposts of the coun...