It's that magical time of year when children all over the world are getting excited about whether they have been good enough for Father Christmas to come to their house and bring them the latest toy or gadget they've seen on the TV or been talking to their friends about. Yes Christmas is definitely a…
Soldier, my inspiration!
After 2 broken iPad covers Soldier inspires me to design an iPad cover that is easy to hold and bounces if dropped! Where do you start? - it's been quite a journey! Design, IP protection, prototype, manufacture, stock storage, fulfilment and so it goes on.... So 18 months later on what feels like a really…
Living with danger fortunately most parent’s don’t understand…..
My heart sank this morning when I woke and did my usual check of my facebook news feed. Another 5 year old autistic boy wandered off and being hunted for.... Then further down my feed another young lad with autism wandered off and drowned... An all too familiar situation when you arw living in an…
Lack of safety awareness = stress!
For most families it must feel such a simple thing, heading out a few blocks walk to the local shops to run an errand. In fact in such beautiful sunny weather like today it should be a pleasure...,2 children with learning disability, no safety awareness and sensory issues it's not that simple!As there was only…
A diagnosis, so why so confused??
Yesterday our world was turned upside down again! We turned up for a routine appointment for Angel to find out we had results for our Soldier from a leading edge genetics study of developmental disorders that Soldier has been part of for 3 years. This study is called DDD (deciphering developmental disorders) and holds the hope…
Not a budding children’s author with my nightime writing!
For nearly 2 weeks over Christmas we had to stay up at night and watch Angel sleeping in case her tonsils blocked her breathing until she had her tonsils removed on 3 Jan - that's a whole different blog! How do you stay awake?? Well I decided to enter a mumsnet competition to write a short…
The truth about tiredness…
How many times have I heard friends moan they are tired as their little one has been up during the night sick or is having a phase of being up during the night... Regularly I take a deep breath whilst thinking 'if only...' I hope one day that never actually slips out! After all, relative…
Pls come to lunch, it’ll be lovely to see you all…..
That kind invitation to something that should be enjoyable and in the past would have been met with 'great looking forward to it' is still met with 'great looking forward to it' whilst underneath I am having lots of other conflicting thoughts: What is their house like? Are the outside doors secure? does it have…
Happy New Year
We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! As I embark upon sharing insight into our lives with you, our family, friends and followers a quick look back at 2013 by way of introducing ourselves.... In true Ali (that's me)…
the angel and the soldier 