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Can you imagine having a toddler that doesn’t progress through that stage? Can you imagine having a child (or adult) that looks a certain age but developmentally and emotionally is stuck there? Can you imagine trying to explain budgeting and why they can’t have whatever they want all the time, every single time you’re out? …

I hate the word disability. Every time I sign a NDIS document or a standard form and have to tick that box it makes my jaw clench. It implies she’s less than. Amounts to less Feels less. Means less. Has less of a contribution to make. Her ability is now and always will be, less. …

This morning… I felt like a terrible Mum & For a little while after, I believed it to be true. I yelled at you and it wasn’t necessary. You were challenging me by changing your outfit for the third time and when you decided to wear a fairy dress without anything underneath it and refused …

Waking this morning feeling a bit broken, after the worst meltdown we have had in over 10 years of parenting. I’ve just finished writing emails to teachers and to book in an urgent Paediatrician appointment because something is just not right with our girl; and I can’t stop the tears. I keep seeing the kicks …

Every now and again I have a little cry for you. I cry not to solve anything. Or not as an explosion of emotion. Sometimes it’s just a small, little moment from a day that reminds me that life is sometimes hard for you. Perhaps an unkind word from a stranger. A judgemental look from …

How is everyone doing really? Not on a surface level… how are you… REALLY??? The state of the world at the moment has got me down, I won’t lie. Two days ago I was happy to shake it off. Happy to light heartedly joke it away with a funny meme. I was waiting for this …

It’s 6am and you wake up, pop the kettle on and take a deep breath. It’s time to get organised for the day ahead with losing your s^&* – but lets face it, you are human. There are school drop offs to wrestle, kids to organise into semi-respectible looking beings, breakfasts to organise, lunches to …

No one likes the look of these right?! Everyone dreads that time when the letter or text comes and reminds you – It’s time for your Cervical Screening Test or previously known as Pap Smear (seriously who names these things?!) Do you know how far technology has come??? I had the BEST conversation with my …