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 …

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 …

Stitched Up

Sometimes I am a truly awful person and a really rubbish, stupid Mum. This isn’t just my opinion of course, it is widely shared by my whole family and beyond …

We’ve got it covered

  Watching in awe as The Rose grows up and unfurls beautifully, but what scares me most is her behaviour with boys. One day she’s going to get into THAT …

I’m in here

We always thought The Rose was ‘individual’ but that something, sometime soon would just click and then the onslaught of party invitations and handsome suitors would roll in. But the heads -up that …