April Is Autism Awareness Month 

by RachelSwirl
April Is Autism Awareness Month 

April Is Autism Awareness Month, for those of you that don’t know what Autism is now is the chance to research, find out and raise your own awareness of the condition. Here are some facts taken directly from www.autism.org.uk which you find helpful: The term ‘autism‘ is used here to describe all diagnoses on the autism spectrum including classic autism, Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism. Autism is a serious, lifelong and disabling condition. Without the right support, it can have a profound – sometimes devastating – effect on individuals and families. Autism is much more common than many people think. There are around 700,000 people…

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Oh My Gosh I’ve Been Featured On Another Blog! 

by RachelSwirl
Oh My Gosh I've Been Featured On Another Blog! 

Oh my gosh I have been featured on another blog! To say I am honoured is an understatement. I am officially over the moon, I have had my writing published upon an amazing blog, You can read the post and other posts within the series at whattheredheadsaid. I wrote a piece upon how Paul and I met for Donna’s ‘The Beginning of Us’ series which I’ve greatly enjoyed reading myself, and if you haven’t seen is definitely worth a read. I cannot believe that all of a sudden I am part of it! ? You can read all about how Paul and I met here.…

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Learning To Line Up

by RachelSwirl
Learning To Line Up

As per usual on a Wednesday during the holidays, the local bouncy castle madness is up and running at full throttle. My daughter is also at full throttle and cannot decide whether she wants to laugh or cry, either way she knows one thing that she won’t do for sure and that’s queueing to take her turn. Paul and I have both held her whilst waiting for her turn upon the activities, each time we’ve tried as we might to hold her back as she screams, wriggle’s desperately and cries to get her way onto the almighty blow up slide before anyone…

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The A Word & Eating Out

by RachelSwirl
The A Word & Eating Out

Its been a fairly uneventful Easter so far, whilst some of the fault for this lies with us for being far too relaxed rather than taking the kids here, there and everywhere as we normally do during the holidays. The main reason for our lazy outlook has been down to the weather. We would much rather stay in and keep warm and dry as the weather has been utter crud, we have had everything that the sky can throw at us from sunshine to rain to hail and even some flurries of snow for good measure! I thought it was…

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Losing Time & Springing Forward

by RachelSwirl
Losing Time & Springing Forward

Just a quick reminder for you all, the clocks ‘Spring forward’ an hour tonight (well technically tomorrow morning at 1am precisely but you know what I mean). This means two things … Firstly, lighter nights or in other words, having to convince your kids that it is time to go to bed despite it still being light outside. Secondly, we will get one less hour in bed as time magically skips forward an hour. Whilst I love the idea of summer nights, realistically it means that bedtime will seem like hell on earth for a week or so whilst our little…

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