infantasia

For literally years, I procrastinated filling in the form for the carer's allowance grant that's available to people with children with special needs.
Years.
Despite a friend who'd done it giving me her form and family impact statement letter.

I just had my mind blown a little bit. By the tweet of a lovely intelligent, educated, cultured woman on twitter who has a great marriage and family and is having a Sunday in bed with tea, told she deserves it because she is an 'excellent wife'. And...

Little things my son does still melt my heart.
Today in the stupidly-expensive, pretty things shop he admired an old fashioned dial phone (in red melamine) with a kind of awe.
I love that he gets the beauty of the design of an old phone without ever having used one, without ever knowing that to be a phone-shape....

I was just slicing a tomato, and started to  cry because I remembered the bit in Harriet the Spy where everything goes wrong and the kids in school steal her tomato sandwhich because they're bullying her because they read her notebook.  She always has...