5 Cold Weather Activities: making the most of the ice and snow.

It has felt like a really cold year so far. The one advantage to the cold is that we can explore fun ice and snow activities. I am a summer girl and much prefer hot days and sitting in the sun. All this cold and wet and windy weather has been frustratingly long. So, with…

Living Arrows 9/53: Icy adventures and preparing for the freeze.

This week’s Living Arrows entry is a cold one. Winter has seemed to drag on and I’ve forgotten what being warm feels like. J doesn’t give a monkeys about weather and goes out in rain and cold…always needing reminders to wear a coat! Despite my dislike of the cold I do insist on getting out…

Living Arrows Week 1/52: The Wobbelboard and Autism

HI, welcome to 2018. I have already written 2017 and had to edit posts many times but its only the 3rd day so I’ll let myself off. I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and New Years. It was really full on for us as we spent time with my side of the family and…

What I learnt from our first Christmas with Autism…

I hope everyone has survived the holidays with some sense of sanity in tact. This year J was 3 so it’s the first Christmas he’s really started to understand. It is also the first Christmas since J getting his Autism diagnosis. Last year J was only interested in playing on his own with a train…

My child is not ‘naughty’ and even if he is then Santa will still bring him presents…

I have seen so many memes and jokes about the supposed ‘if you’re naughty you won’t get any presents’ threat. But let’s face it, nobody means it. I don’t know a single parent who has actually cancelled Christmas. Frankly it unrealistic to expect a child to behave 100% of the time for a whole month…

Our Christmas visit to the cathedral & making memories with Lego.

J hasn’t quite found his Christmas spirit yet. This is the first year he’s been old enough to really be aware of what it really is. He’s struggled with the changes such as decorations. It’s take most of December to be able to cope with two sets of lights and some decorations hung on the…

Elvis the Elf: Day 1-the introduction

Happy 1st December everyone,  Today is National Elf on a Shelf Day…well maybe not officially a national day but if you’ve been on social media it is pretty much everywhere. I love Elf on a Shelf but probably not in the way a lot of others do it. For us it’s not a bargaining chip…

Family: Planning for Cold Weather.

I am a bit of an ‘over planner’. I write lists and I think of every possible scenario. When I watch disaster films I often think ‘what would our plan be?’. For this reason I always have an emergency box ready. As the cold weather is coming there’s the risk of what could happen such…