It was Internet safety day yesterday, and while I didn’t get to writing a post about it, I came across something that is aimed at children which worried me. I am pretty vigilant with my boys lives online, which is probably a bit hypocritical considering how large my own online footprint is these days, but [...]
September 13, 2011 By 29 Comments
Adoption at Heart – The Beginning Part 2
Image: Kookkai_nak / FreeDigitalPhotos.net There we were, waiting to hear about some children that we were interested to hear about, when a phone call came for us to have the three little boys that social services wanted us to do them a favour for (the boys I talk about in Adoption at Heart, The Beginning). [...]
September 7, 2011 By 29 Comments
Adoption at Heart – The Beginning
Saying goodbye to the fertility merry-go-round after three rounds of IVF and one donor cycle felt strangely liberating. A long 12 months months later, we climbed aboard the slow train to adoption. Approaching social services after my second round of fertility treatment proved fruitless. They refused to allow us to embark until we were finished with fertility [...]
August 28, 2011 By 14 Comments
Competition / Giveaway – Do you get travel sick? Sea Bands might help.
When the lovely people at Sea Bands got in touch and asked me to review and giveaway some sets of their products, I jumped at the chance as my eldest suffers quite badly from nausea and queasiness when he is in the car. They arrived in a nice white padded envelope and my eldest [...]
April 21, 2011 By 12 Comments
Children and Animals can Die in Vans and Cars
It’s got to the time of year again when I find myself struggling with a small proportion of my fellow humans as I go out and about. It stresses me to the point of irrationality, and really gets my back up. When it starts to get warmer outside and out pops Mr Sunlight, the animals [...]
February 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Fill In The Blanks !!!!! Meme
I have been tagged by @jontybabe AND @helloitsgemma on twitter. They are getting me back for tagging them last week (only kidding). Fill in the blanks is as it sounds. A list of words that I have to fill in the blanks of. I am… Trying to be the best mum that I can be. I know [...]
February 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cuts to Services for and of the Disabled
With one special needs child, and two others who need some assistance at school, but who cope with a little extra support, it fills me with horror to read the stories of what is going on around Scotland this year. The support staff from different authorities seem to be targetted. The cuts are savage, and [...]
January 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Overweight Children – Whose Fault ??
I switched on the TV tonight, and the programme that I stopped at was the Half Ton Teen on Living Channel. The mum states her child is her reason for living, but she is the one going to the supermaket and buying all the hugely fatty foods that her son is eating. The doctor thinks [...]
December 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Saving Education Services in Aberdeen – Cuts for ASN affect ALL Children
I’ve become aware of a campaign running to save services for ASN in Aberdeen. What I have read so far is almost unbelievable. Being a parent of ASN, this is something that affects me daily, and is an issue that affects all children in every class when PSA’s are taken away. I am not yet [...]
