A spoonie is someone who is living with a chronic illness. It refers to the idea that such a person has a limited number of spoons (as an analogy for energy) to use each day. I’m a spoonie because I’m autistic and also have chronic fatigue...
I made this soup for the Purple family today and everyone agreed it was delicious (Super Kid virtually licked his bowl clean). Ingredients: Butternut squash. 2 red peppers. 1 onion. 1 small carton of cherry tomatoes. 2 cloves of garlic. Ginger powder. Mint. Salt and...
Last week I wrote this post, explaining the situation I was in with the school taking interest in the contents of my blog. I mentioned that I was pretty sure that another Mother had probably complained about it to the head. Within an hour of publishing the post I was...
One minute I have an hour, so I dawdle a little. I check twitter, I leisurely make packed lunches and I stare out of my kitchen window (which looks onto a busy street) and people watch. Suddenly I don’t have an hour, I have seconds, and my children are not ready...
I know, not the most sexy blog post title in the world is it, sorry. However since most people (except those fortunate enough to have someone else doing it for them) have to clean I figured I could pass on my tips for making cleaning easy. Visitors to the Purple...
