Catching Up

It has been a roller-coaster few months here. I do apologise for the patchy and sporadic posts!

DD3 developed a serious physical health problem which has necessitated many, many hospital visits and tests. It is life-altering, but not life-threatening, and she is now on appropriate medication. The dosage is being tweaked on a weekly basis to enable her to be as physically active as possible. After a month on her new medication, we are starting to see some sustained improvement, thank God!

In the midst of all this, she has had to deal with major external exams (GCSE exams) and in the space of four weeks, she sat nineteen separate exam papers all while feeling profoundly unwell. It will definitely have affected her performance during the exams but she is hoping to have done well enough to gain admittance to Sixth Form for A levels. She gets the results of her exams on 21st August.

We have an elderly close family member whose dementia has deteriorated rapidly over the last few months and this has also added to our difficulties and stress levels. We have now got some external professional help in caring for her, but this still takes a huge amount of our time.

School is out for summer so we are hoping to be able to have some fun and relaxation with the girls over the next six weeks :-) I have a load of photos to upload from the last month as well as lots of books to review over at The Garden Window in the next few weeks.