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Celebrating Two Cultures So a busy day yesterday as we were off to the Latino Festival. Kike is Colombian and I try to make sure Summer and River learn about their mixed culture. Summer didn’t really get it when she was younger but, after a few trips back and the rise in popularity of Latino… Read more
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If you’ve found your way here through a school newsletter or recommendation, welcome. I’m Sarah, and this is 50 Days of River. I started this blog last summer because I felt completely alone and incredibly anxious about how I was going to get through 50 days of the summer holidays with my autistic son and… Read more
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Birthday Negotiations For those of you who’ve been reading from the beginning (thank you), you’ll know we’ve had an interesting relationship with birthdays. Last year, River refused to acknowledge his birthday. He wouldn’t let me say “Happy Birthday”, sing to him or even give him a cake. I was sad until I realised it wasn’t… Read more
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Hot. Really Hot. I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of June. Apparently I took a month off blogging without actually deciding to. Maybe I’m subconsciously gearing up for another 50 Days of River over the summer, where I’ll end up writing every day again… So, what’s been happening? Well, we’ve all been surviving. I… Read more
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Too Hot to Function It’s the night before we return to our routine. The garden has been cleared up, homework reluctantly completed, baths happened (again somewhat reluctantly), beds changed, uniforms out and Kike and I are settling down to Spider Noir. Another half-term completed. I wasn’t as anxious as I had been beforehand, but how… Read more
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A Heatwave and a Small Vampire Where to start? It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote and somehow we’ve already made it to another half-term. But this time there’s a heatwave. So no all-inclusive holiday for us. Well, it’s still all inclusive for the children, but that mostly involves me becoming Head Snack… Read more
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A successful trip to North London (mostly) Another week has flown by and my eye is all healed thankfully. We had a good weekend visiting friends in North London, although taking our children to a well organised, tidy and sophisticated home was a bit of a gamble. Luckily our friends were very patient but there… Read more
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Running on Empty So, it’s been a bit of a tough week to be honest. Things were going on as normal, ticking away, but clearly something was brewing in the background. My tiredness levels are at an all-time high. Every day I get home from work at 5pm and immediately fall asleep for an hour.… Read more
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Ok, I’ve not written in a while. Partly because life has just been happening and partly because I haven’t really known what to say. It’s been one of those in-between periods where nothing is dramatically wrong, but things are always quietly changing. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, the book came out.… Read more
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Looking Back on easter It’s the end of the Easter holidays and time to look back at what these two weeks have really been like. At the beginning, I said I wasn’t feeling as anxious and that stayed true. But one thing hasn’t changed at all, the exhaustion. Even cutting back on fixed activities and… Read more
Fifty days of River: Connection, isolation and everything in between.
