B has now been in hospital under a mental health section for about 4 and a half months! To be honest when she first went in I thought it would just be a couple of weeks at the absolute maximum. I didn’t expect to have to work things around Christmas to fit in with getting …
We’ve always said we would just stick with the one child, it’s been a really hard few years and X’s birth was quite an experience! So obviously, we’ve now just had another baby! We were sat in the kitchen and B was upset and we were talking about how hard things have been and I …
Surviving a kids party can be hard! We went for another one at the weekend. I’m sure when I was a kid we’d just be dropped off and then picked up hours later as the host parents were just about ready to completely lose it! But as a parent of a 5 year old now, …
A little over 5 years ago our son X was born. This was before B had been in a mental health hospital, before she’d started seeing the mental health team and before any suicide attempts. Technically our birth story started with B suddenly announcing when I was in the bath that perhaps we should have …
After taking a few weeks off work in order to deal with B having a bit of a downturn, I’m currently on a “Phased Return” to work. This means I am only working mornings and am trying to get rest/downtime whenever I can. Fellow parents will appreciate that this is never really easy regardless of …
X called B back into his room for some more “Questions” tonight. The trouble is when B asked him what his question was he just said “ummmm” and couldn’t think of one. He’d actually been a bit upset beforehand so B thought he could do with something to think about so she thought she would …
So, quite a while back X managed to crack toilet training, at least during the day. We are, as all parents are, very happy with this. It meant preschool would have it a bit easier, and it would also save us a few quid too. We knew nights would take a while, but we weren’t …
So, Christmas 2018 has been and gone. I’m happy to report that we’ve all had a good one, even R. To be honest Christmas does bring lots of going out, interacting with people, and breaks to routine. These can be tricky for lots of people, especially when mental health issues are around, but although I …
This week was the week of X’s school nativity, it was all of his year (Reception) plus years 1 and 2. Collectively, years 1 and 2 are apparently now known as “Key Stage One”, I’m feeling myself sounding old at times like this when I say “Oh, you mean infants?”. To be completely honest, I’ve …
We’ve just put a very tired X into bed, we could tell he was tired because of the tears and semi-tantrums. He had a fantastic couple of hours this afternoon at party for his friend from School, a little girl who we’ll call L. We got the invite a week or two ago and X …