Monday 26th March

Poor D was off school today. Annoying tickly dry cough that we all have, plus a slight temperature (she’s prone to convulsions so I always keep her off for that alone) and a skin reaction on arms and face – poor thing!

She was very pleased to be off, with her Mumma.

We dropped T off at school and then popped to the shops. Ideal time as not very busy. She chose this from our local Cargo:

Costa was a different story, very very busy and full of staring people. D spent a lot of the time getting on and off my lap and generally smothering me but did eventually settle with some Angry Birds Space on Mr Paddie:

She had to come with me to pick up Mr O from mainstream nursery, I purposefully got there late in the hope that there wouldn’t be too many people about. Wrong! They choose today to open the doors late. LOADS of parents waiting. First she wanted to come in, then she got scared and wanted to go back out and be in her sanctuary, her buggy. Lots of stares and as she was making a bit of noise, a few comments too. If I’d thought to put a few leaflets in my bag, I would have handed them out. She’s in a special needs buggy for a reason. (good point to refer to my “Does this buggy cause offence?” post on here, I guess.

Anyway….she played well with Mr O, better than I thought she would, to be honest.

After school run to pick up T, D decided she wanted to do some writing. I LOVE it when she writes anything – her name etc. It’s usually a mixture of upper and lower but anything like that, wonderful.

She showed Hubbie and I when she’d finished: a whole page with “I love D**** C*****” – obviously her whole name. The phrase “it’s all about me” sprung to mind!

Squabbling with T aside, a good evening. Tonight’s last picture is an exhausted cat – she’s obviously had a very hard day!

Comments/RTs as ever welcome Jx 

“Touch” and inter-connections

I watched the first episode of “Touch” last night, new episodes in UK are Tuesday evenings, on Sky One.

I was interested in seeing it from the previews, which described the child, Jake, as mute and having been misdiagnosed with severe autism.

Kiefer Sutherland plays the father of Jake and his character’s love for Jake and frustrations at not being able to communicate shine through. As the Mumma of an autistic child who is verbal (apart from moments of extreme anxiety or stress), I cannot imagine how parenting a non-verbal child is. Anyone that does – in fact every special need parent – has my admiration and respect.

I became fascinated by the inter-connection of numbers during last night’s programme, cannot wait for the next episode. Really interested to see how this is carried forward with the grumpy speech therapist character.

The whole programme set me thinking last night and I remembered something which had been dormant for years.

When I was first married to C’s father (first husband) before we had C, we saw a fortune teller on a beachside pier. All crystal ball and reading your palms, paying with notes not coins though!

I went in, not giving anything away but obviously as I was wearing a wedding ring, she spoke of “one child, maybe two more” and also that “within 18 months you would be living in a cul de sac”.

For my (then) husband, she spoke of eventually having his own business.

By the time we were married, I had already had one miscarriage and went on to have another one before successfully carrying C so I always presumed that was the “one child, maybe two more”. Little did I know!!

I didn’t move into a cul de sac but we have a curvy service road at the back of the house. I guess it depends what you want to believe. I spent 16 years in my house before moving – just before D came along.

I do know of someone who went to see a fortune teller whilst she was married to husband number two, who got told she would marry for the third time! I guess if you’re told something like that and unhappy anyway, it might influence your thinking. She didn’t marry again by the way – as yet!

So.. Yes, I did have the one plus two and I’m sort of in a cul de sac and very happily married to Hubbie (number two) – long may it continue!

Whatever influences who we are, how we do things, I don’t know but really interested to see how the “Touch” series progresses.

I perceive the “Touch” title not to be about Jake not wanting to be “touched” but more about the “butterfly effect” – how one small event can set off a chain of other events and all the people effected are inter-connected and touched by an invisible link.

Comments/RTs as ever welcomed Jx 