Lots of feedback to say that the easyfundraising website is fabulously easy and rewarding to use! It really is a dream way to raise money for free and encourages retailers to give to charity all at the same time - it's idiot proof and this I know because I have successfully pulled it off myself. www.easyfundraising.org.uk - it also makes you feel SO much better about spending money which has to be a good thing at the moment. Basically the economy and BCRT need you to get online and start shopping...
An unremarkable few days in my Rose bubble which is all good - more hydro, more physio, more swimming at the weekend, even more swimming yesterday, basically more hard core army fitness training. Bit of a plateau at the moment - her walking still isn't up to much outside the safety of home and even at home it often degenerates to a tired thump but at rare moments it is unmistakably walking! The physios at home and at Crystal Palace are so thrilled with her that she's finally on her way after so many frustrating and worrying months that she spends most of her sessions now basically being praised to the skies - which she rather enjoys.
Every day is still Christmas Day with her - still can't believe how fabulously normal and wonderful it is to get her up, take her to school, have her at home ALL THE TIME and then get to spend every afternoon having the best fun with her. Whether we're at Rafts n Rascals in the local pool (average client age approx 12 months) or curling up in front of a dvd or with a book (or obviously doing lots and lots of REALLY hard maths - not) it all feels like the biggest reward for a horror film of a year. School is great - neither of us taking it terribly seriously just yet academically but we'll get there! It's a fabulous toe back into the water of friendships and a healthy absorption in a child's world once more - there are occasional tears that she can't join in more stuff yet but she's getting there. I keep telling her that by the summer term she will be chasing them all on and off the pirate ship...if she does her exercises!
The house resounds for much of the afternoons with the wonderful noise of her playing and Felix is drawn like a magnet to her room when he gets in from school. Her imagination has been caught by his school play and the soundtrack from Joseph belts out on a seemingly continual loop! If the boys need a prompter in the wings when they take to the stage in March she will definitely be their girl! After dreary month after dreary month of coming home to an empty house Felix is a different child with Rose back home and they hang out together for hours - playing on the Wii fit, watching rubbish tv, busy doing nothing very much at all. If she's not belting out Lloyd Webber tracks or teaching a large class of build a bears then she's sure to be marshalling troops of Sylvanian Family animals around her bedroom or making membership cards for her new girls-only, members-only (two members so far) association The Fancy Club... It's all just a bit fabulous.
Surgical clinic looming on Thursday afternoon just to take the edge off the general sense of euphoria - deep breaths and Rescue Remedy all round. That'll do it...
