Our friends arrived from London on Thursday. It was wonderful to see them, the girls whom I'll call Annie and Clarabel and their mum S. ...

On Monday, I was in the charity shop dropping off a load of stuff and then in TK Maxx buying Lady a winter coat. Somehow I also ended up wit...

Lady and Thomas have been badgering me to get them a new baby brother or sister, in a similar way to how they'd ask for a new bicycle. L...

What a great day we had yesterday! The boys came for a snuggle in my bed and Thomas and I played a game of sakes and ladders on my laptop. ...

I have been feeling really pissed off this evening. I got involved in a local forum, where I felt duty bound to challenge a autism = horribl...

Gordon and I took Duncan along for a one-off speech and occupational therapy assessment session yesterday. I'd been asked by the clinica...

This boy is so cute. He has been interested in writing letters to people lately; his cousins, aunts and uncles and our friends who came to s...

The bad tooth came out today. We were nervous about how it would go, but tried to prepare Duncan as much as possible. I'd made a little ...

We managed to get a pediatrician to examine Duncan today at the children's hospital dental department. It was awful and wonderful. Dunca...

Thanks everyone for sharing your advice and experiences in reply to my last post about Duncan's teeth. It's one of his baby teeth th...

I noticed that Duncan was poking in his mouth a lot over the past few days, chewing his clothes and mouthing toys. When I looked at his teet...

We've had friends over to stay for the past few days and it has been marvellous. I'm just going to name them (for blog purposes) Bel...

We had another day out at W5 yesterday, meeting with a few other HE families. As ever when we're there, we spent most of our time in the...

Duncan is talking a bit more these days. When you ask him if he wants something, he'll answer with either yes or no thanks , followed by...

The house is relatively quiet right now, as Gordon has taken Lady and Thomas out shopping. Duncan is sitting on the floor beside me playing ...

On my last birthday , I thought about a few things I wanted to do, to be more fulfilled. One thing was to learn to dance, and last night, I ...