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 …

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 …

It’s over

A few weeks have gone by since The Rose became a girlfriend.  In that time she has seen a little of how life might have been if Aspersers hadn’t got …

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 …

Being a woman

Those who read this blog regularly will know that The Rose is in her first relationship. It is not only her first boy/girl relationship but the first mutually complex relationship …

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 …

The Aupair

The Rose has been away baby sitting for two weeks during this summer holiday. She went to my home town near Wales and stayed with my sister and brother in law to look …