Do you use Pinterest? Now I love Pinterest and use it regularly (ok, daily) to be inspired. It has helped me immensely when trying to get ideas on how to get organised. Other work from home mums have shared so many tips and advice. Do you pin to a board all about getting organised? Working…
These past three weeks have been very strange for me, I have actually had to stay home. My children have had a full round of sickness bugs and then just one day after returning to school, we then received a full quota of chickenpox. So I have had to give apologies to all meetings and…
Well, my mission to get organised continues. I have spent a lot of time reading blogs and tips. I have also spent many hours on my beloved Pinterest. I purchased a lovely A5 filfoax as phone apps were not doing it for me. I had discovered Astrid which I thought may be the solution but…
I’m on cloud 9 this evening. In January I agreed to become a collaborator on a very successful blog. Today, the creator of the blog has given me my first Linkedin recommendation. It reads as follows: I asked Debs to join me at Special Needs Jungle at the beginning of 2013. I believed she would…
As you all know by now, I am on a mission to get organised. If like me, you find it hard to say no when someone says “oh could you just…” or “wouldn’t it be great if we had someone who could ……..”, you will have lots of ideas floating around in your head or…
How did I live without Pinterest? I spent 10 mins (or was it hours) yesterday looking at “organising paperwork/receipts” and I found some great ideas. I have to say though that I was amazed at the level some people go to – definite A types. However, one of my big issues is receipts! I co-run…
Why did I think driving 300 miles on a Bank Holiday would be a good idea? Why did I think Bank Holidays and Motorways would ever be a good combination? My day started badly when I was setting up the kids DVD players in the car and managed to lock myself into the back seat….
So often we write down our complaints, our bad experiences; we write about the people who made us unhappy today or the comment that you read that you felt was aimed directly at you. Today, however, I want to write about the things and people I am thankful for. The good people often get taken…
We use these words regularly in our lives but what is the difference? As a parent we have responsibility to enable our child to Be healthy Stay safe Enjoy and achieve Make a positive contribution Achieve economic well-being Responsibility is bestowed on us when we take on the role of parent or carer, whether we like…
Do you remember? Do you remember the day you heard? Do you remember the day your child was given a label? Do you remember the day your life was turned upside down? Do you remember thinking your heart would never feel this much pain again? Do you remember thinking you would never cope with this? …
Many years ago, before I really knew what I was doing with videos, I put together a compilation of the everyday things families of children with disabilities go through. The everyday things which may be in one set of case notes but not another, or more likely not in any notes, the everyday things parents…
Many years ago, a practitioner sat in my home – perfectly groomed – and stated that she understood what my life was like. I knew that she could empathise but not understand – not unless she was a mum of a child with special needs too. Today Video: In order to deal with my frustration, I…
I spend so much time with parents and often hear how they would like a magic blue pill to make everything better. Here is a letter to my children about a magic blue pill. I would like to start with saying though that my children do not have health issues which involve many many hours,…
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