Motheroffae

Signs of tiredness

As with all children (I imagine), our fae won’t always recognise that she is tired. She will sometimes accept that she is tired – she is always tired; she won’t sodding sleep, so it’s always a good bet that she has a sleep debt – but you will always know. She has two moods whenContinue reading “Signs of tiredness”

Overcoming Adversity

My fae has shown great tenacity in the face of setbacks this year. Some are big, some were small, some just plain stupid and pretty much all of her own making. The weather: this summer, I think we can all agree, failed to summer! It has been, at best, pathetic. This has not stopped myContinue reading “Overcoming Adversity”

Don’t assume anything

Trying to figure out what the hell to do with my daughter over the summer holiday has had me tearing my hair out. There are things that I dismissed out of hand as being inappropriate because of the duration (7 hour football training), the noise (ten pin bowling), or her capability (she can’t swim). ThisContinue reading “Don’t assume anything”

Well that escalated quickly part 2

So it’s the end of term today time for an update I guess. So in response to my email to the governors and subsequent meeting lead to a full scale governors investigation. The result of which I got by letter a few weeks later. Of my 7 complaints of neglect and poor communication every oneContinue reading “Well that escalated quickly part 2”

Imaginative Play

There is a myth amongst neurotypicals: that fae children do not engage in imaginative play. How I wish this was true. My daughter weaponises it. She loves nothing better than to drag you into her world of make believe, only to slam you out of it with a bump. I say “bump” – really, IContinue reading “Imaginative Play”

That escalated quickly

So recently I posted about my daughter fracturing her arm at school. Three days later she came home with knees that looked like she had attacked them with a cheese grater. I asked her what happened and she shrugged and through a mixture of words and the medium of dance explained that she had beenContinue reading “That escalated quickly”

That escalated quickly

There’s always something

So it seems I jinxed us with the last post. Seriously, I don’t know what I was thinking by stating that “everything’s going well” – obviously karma would strike me down with wrath. In this case, my poor little fae daughter fell during a PE lesson and fractured her arm. So, three weeks in aContinue reading “There’s always something”

The magic formula

For years… in fact, for over a decade, even before my fae was born, my husband and I have had a long running joke that “life will have to settle down soon right?”. It started with us moving in together, and then both finding gainful employment on the same side of the Atlantic. We thenContinue reading “The magic formula”

I don’t believe in reincarnation but…

I don’t believe in reincarnation. Or, at least, I didn’t, but my fae is making me question things. I firmly believe she has had other lives. In one, I think she must have been a collie. She will round up people and herd them together, whether they want to be herded or not. On occasionsContinue reading “I don’t believe in reincarnation but…”