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I meant to write this post last week and things, you might know, have changed slightly now! But since going back to school in January Henry has just been in such a good place. So happy and contented.
We walked to school a couple of weeks ago and he actually said ‘I don’t have anything to worry about it’! How amazing! It’s a state of being I can only dream of!!
And it got me thinking – why he was in such a good place?
I know this is hard to pinpoint as we still do se Read More > 
Henry looked at his picture on the front of a magazine and said ‘I’m famous!’
Thing is, he has been our little celebrity for a while!
When I read the article (full PDf article at the bottom of this page) I was a little taken aback really. Living and doing it it is easy to forget or not to see what is actually happening.
Looking back, in June 2012 we had an emergency half day outreach with Sean Fitzgerald. Henry was unable to get through the day without continually melting down Read More >
Well it’s been quite a few weeks! It’s still totally overwhelming that Henry is going to school. Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday morning when we get him dressed and take him to school I still can’t quite believe it. He already has a little moan about getting ready for school in the morning, ‘owww why do you have to go to school’. He’d only been about 3 times! Bless him! But he absolutely leaves the house fine and can’t wait to get into the playgroun Read More >
This is a lovely note from Nicky (Mrs Towers!) about Henry’s first morning at school. thought that you would all like to hear how he got on.
Hi Penny & Warwick,
I wish I’d been kitted up with some sort of spy cam so you could have all been there this morning and seen how amazing Henry was on his first official morning at school.
In one word – wow!
I just about managed to not well up after seeing you Penny but Henry was brilliant.
He was a little bit bit shy to begin with Read More >
Can’t believe the summer holidays are over already or that Henry’s school uniform is laid out on his bedroom floor ready for him to put on tomorrow. The further Henry progressed on the Son-Rise Program we have thought about and talked about the possibility of Henry going to school but it was so hard to imagine it actually happening and now it is about to! Bridget, our fantastic volunteer and friend, who has been with us from the beginning, always said this day would come even when I Read More >
Woah! Talk about emotional!
Henry was really excited and smiling lots about going to school in the car and went into the school so well answering the receptionist and Head Teacher’s questions as they met us.
When we went into the classroom he was really shy and stayed very close to me and Warwick. The children all said ‘hello Henry’ and this sent him into himself even more. The children were immediately so friendly and sweet with lots of them coming up to say hello. One little Read More >
Just wanted to say a thank you to my lovely husband for his wonderful words, it was really beautiful to read what Warwick had written about our life with Henry. As many of you have picked up on though, it really hasn’t just been down to me.
Aside from anything else Warwick has mainly (along with my poor mom and the odd person who unfortunately picked the wrong day not to say thank you to me for holding the door open for them!) had to put up with my tantrums, tempers, breakdowns, panics Read More >
