Again much of life is taken up with trying to get our child all the help and support that they need. Whilst my weeks look empty, I’m a furious keyboard warrior in the evenings sending letters to fight their case. I have to admit that AI has been a really useful tool, one letter in which I needed legal references was beautifully written by AI, although I am awaiting how successful it was in affecting the case.

I am in a period of preparation. I have planned and purchased some accessories for our trip to ABBA Voyage. I’m loving the heart glasses which I have for the girls in our party and the headband is delightfully sparkly.

I have had my flu and Covid boosters this week. I made the decision to have them to protect the very medically vulnerable children we have in our SEN school. I arranged it for a Saturday so if I had any ill effects I had Sunday to recover. I did feel a little rough but nothing that stopped my day. I always feel so grateful when having such a vaccination.

We have been putting the final touches to my daughter’s bedroom, it’s had all new furniture, paint and furnishings and looks so much better. I do think a nice rug would complement the room and will be in the lookout on future shopping trips.

After my family admin, I have been doing lots of reading in the evenings as a perfect distraction. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton was excellent, the ghosts were a boyfriend and friends disappearing from life with no real reason or contact. I really enjoy Dolly’s work, it has strong female leads and characters you root for.

This weekend I did find myself with some time alone. This is so rare in my life, except for my weekly parkrun, and I was determined to do something useful with my time. After dropping the boys at the station, I popped into town for a tea and cake and potter and then came home to finally put away my summer clothes and get out the warmer, winter clothes. I do feel nicely organised for the coming months. The time was over so quickly and I picked up two very happy boys at the station as their football team had beaten Arsenal.

This coming week is the last before half term, of course half term is busy so it’s another week of organising days away and packing ready to relax. I’m really hoping that I may get to do one of my bucket list parkruns whilst I’m away, but given its location the w rather will decide my venue. If I don’t do it I will be going to another new parkrun for a little tourism.