What if, tomorrow, your value was based on how kind you are? We live in a materialistic world. A world where people are famous for being famous. A world where we, and our children, are constantly exposed to images of perfection, only achievable at a cost. A world where people...
One of my goals for this year was to find my creative mojo. I had lost it. I was writing regularly for various blogs, but this is usually based on special needs so it felt more like work and reporting than being creative. I was feeling lost, I knew there...
So much is written about how to get a diagnosis; what the criteria is for a diagnosis and what to do when you don’t get one but little is written about how it feels to get the diagnosis. As a family, we’ve collected many a variety of diagnosis along our travels....
February is here, already? How did January fly by so quickly? It really doesn’t feel like a month ago since we were singing Auld Lang Syne and I was promising myself, as I was setting up my Bullet Journals for 2016, that this year would be my year. For some of us,...
I wanted to share with you some of the videos of our Blindfold Challenge – the challenges in the Chaotic Kent household. J’s Dad tries to make toast and butter it. J’s sister tries to feed the dog J’s fab PA tries to make a ham sandwich It really made...
Today, I attended my son’s school so he could serve me with tea and toast. This sounds very simple. However, J is blind. Simple life skills become more of a challenge when you cannot see. To make you realise how challenging it can be, I am throwing down the gauntlet and asking...
As you will all know, I love my lists and most of these exist in my lovely Bullet Journal. I have lists for everything, including a list of my lists (yes, seriously). Monthly brain dump – to do Weekly list – to do Daily list – to do Goals Habits...
“Eat the cake. Don’t eat the cake” – do you have voices in your head or is it just me? I doubt it is just me. Do you have conversations with yourself? I don’t mean frightening conversations. I mean conversations where you try to justify behaviour or talk yourself into...
As Christmas disappears, most of us will be thinking about how we can achieve your goals this year. Like many of us, I am going with the old favourite – lose weight/get fit. So what can I do differently this year because, let’s be honest, I didn’t mange this last...
I have recently discovered yet another dippy hippy activity – my husband’s words, not mine. I am talking about Hal Elrod’s Miracle Morning. Now the idea behind this is to raise early and to carry out six activities before you start your day. The morning starts with SAVERS (an acronym to...
