Annoyingly, I wrote this out. Left it on my personal laptop. Got busy, closed said laptop and lost it! Very annoying.

Well, it’s been a hot minute. Life has been busy, just after I broke my phone, was without it for a week! I crashed the car. It was terrible, 2 out of 3 children were in the car and it was completely written off. I couldn't of driven it even if I tried. This was August Bank Holiday weekend and we’ve been without a car since. Its hard work, i’m not going to lie. Charlie isn't a fan of leaving the house anyway so without a car everything is so much more difficult and so much harder.

We've had a funny week this week. Monday was a Bank Holiday again, 2 Sundays are hard work. Sundays always feel so dull. Slow and very empty. And times in the house are already pretty slow and calm but Sundays always feel that little bit worse.

Tuesday was my daughter's birthday, she was 17. Now going to college full time with her older brother who will soon be 20. They both have a schedule that means Wednesday afternoons they are off together so we’ve come up with a plan to have family day on a Wednesday afternoon. It’s difficult now to get us all together when 3 out of 4 of us work and then the big ones have college and then they also want to do social activities with their friends. My son also has a girlfriend he wants to spend time with.

Last week we went bowling, this week we went to Ed’s Easy Diner which was my daughter's choice as it was her birthday. Its going to be nice to prioritise family time in the week.

Our week has been relatively quiet and not just for the Queen's funeral (God rest her soul) but also because of Tutor Tom going on holiday. He only did 3 shifts with us and then he has gone on holiday! I am hopeful that the work he has done with Charlie means that he will be able to slide back in when he is back.

It’s surreal, but I have met Tom before. He was a headteacher to a SEN school over in Staffordshire that I went to when viewing schools for Charlie back in 2019. The school was good, they had a really good idea of what the children needed and how to manage their challenges. However, they were opening another school in Leicestershire and that's the school they wanted Charlie to attend. That would be too far! Charlie wouldn’t be able to manage that, and could you imagine travelling there and back all for the sake of an hour? It would take me longer to get there than the sessions.

So, when Charlie's tutor Tom knocked on the door, I felt like I remembered his face but I couldn't quite place it. When he told me his history - I knew. It instantly put me at ease and I knew that he understood the behaviours that Charlie presents and how to engage him in a level of learning. I am super confident that he will ultimately get Charlie where he needs to be.

Bring on Tutor Tom and the future.

Georgina x