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N N N N N Nineteen
The Rose turned 19 last week. It was a far less traumatic affair than her 18th but amazing for a number of reasons. It started out with a hankering to …
Where’ve you been?
We got lost this year. All of us. The Rose turned 18 and the whole family went through a huge (unrelated) crisis just afterwards. No one died. No one was …
You gotta fight, for your right, to paaar – tay
In four weeks The Rose turns 18. I won’t be the first – or last Mum, to question where the time has gone, shed a tear for the baby years …
Music to our ears
The Rose feels other’s pain and tears very deeply and as my re-blogged article last week showed – being overly empathetic means it’s impossible to filter out the important stuff …
Joyful & Triumphant
I haven’t posted for a while. The Rose was so sad about breaking up with The Boyfriend in early December and I was so busy with Christmas sparkling that it …
Hard Core Prawn
The Rose is a literal kind of a gal. As with most Aspies a great deal of banter goes over her head and she doesn’t always get the irony. The Rose …
Bus Pass
So despite the fact we now have a woman in our house, life in many ways, is just the same. She is still organised, meticulous and a lover of obsessive …
The Boyfriend
It’s all she’s ever wanted. And now she has it. A mate. A friend. A closeness. A peer to learn from and share with. It’s all I’ve ever wanted for …
It’s happened
The Rose, my beautiful Rose, appears to have a boyfriend. She’s 17.5 yrs old. I’m scared. Anyone who has read this blog will know of The Rose’s long held desire for romance. Any parent …
…and so we’re back
… ‘From outer space’ – as Gloria Gaynor famously warbled; and that description may be metaphorically true in many circumstances, but in this case – we just went on holiday. I …
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