I think my children have benefitted from the perpetual paparazzi lifestyle they lead. They certainly knew how to have fun in front of a camera 😆
Big up to the Olan Mills photographer though, he really made them enjoy it, even Josie who was a bit on the tired side really. Fran behaved like a model, quite frankly, and the one i got as the free 8×10 is of her, looking like she had just stepped out of a catalogue. Knew i was going to spend a bit -also got a 5×7 of just Josie, a 5X7 of the big 3 and one of all 4 for mum and dad for Xmas, plus some mini’s for cards. Could have had a couple more if i’d been endless rich, but pleased with what i did get.
The one of Fran is great and i’m hoping, now she is heading into a period where he face is going to be under great scutiny by people who want to do things to her, never mind that she is getting towards a more look-conscious age, that it will be a good reminder to her of how beautiful she is. Honestly, just when you think you have nothing to worry about, something new comes along; she could be back into the realms of operations within 6 months now. 🙁 It is such a bummer that it has to be done when they are at such an important age in terms of self-image. It would just about have killed me, at 8, to know i had to have my face fixed some more and that my speech still needed work. I used to curl up with embarrassment at my slight lisp.
Other than that it’s been low-key. Maddy and i did some more words – the -at family, with more sentences, then went through a pack of word cards. She was glowing by the time she realised how many she knew. She is doing very well, in such a different way to how Fran did. Quite amazing. She’s also been drawing a good bit and using DWN. That is having a revival at the moment. And Maddy has alos done some Bear and Penguin maths, making her the most productive today i think.
Fran is reading her way through some Young Puffins, she’s most pleased to have notched up 25 books on her tree. So far today she has drawn an assortments of polar bears, penguins and reindeer and done some more letter maths. She’s not really herself though; the cough and cold thing kept her awake last night.
Off to gym shortly, which will conclude the day. I suppose i’ll have to start thinking about putting an LEA report soon, though i have offered to turn up at Activity World with examples of work and meet him there, just to ring the changes. I quite like writing up a report though, makes me glow with self-satisfaction 😉
Don’t the days end early at this time of year?
The days might end early, but the work seems to just keep on going on…
I think you should give her more credit- you may have had issues but it doesn’t mean she will.
Talking to Pea about it she certainly wouldn’t. I often go mental in my head about her spelling and panic at her friends seeing it. She couldn’t give a flying fig and says so. It’s the way she is and if she can deal with it she couldn’t care less about what others think.
They are are all aware that their aunt has alopecia, is almost bald and has to wear a wig, it doesn’t phase them at all. Their uncle has a serious stutter which is very obvious, not once have they mentioned it.
They see peole with disabilities each and every day and in Pea’s words ‘if they can get on why should I worry’. We have a customer who has some sort of facial ‘disease’, it is rotting the flesh away, he has lost one eye and socket, to be honest it looks dreadful, but he isn’t bothered and after about 30 seconds neither are you.
I don’t think the age/body concious thing happens for a few more years yet and actually I think that if it is handled properly from now it doesn’t need to happen in a negative way. If my parents had dealt with my body issues in a better way I am convinced I wouldn’t of had anorexia for 15 years. That condition will live with me until I die, I just know how to control it these days. My children hopefully won’t go through it or anything like it because of the way we deal with issues.
As adults I think we are more aware of the differences and stress about them far more.
Give yourself some credit for the child you have brought up, she has more selfrespect and knowledge of love, that will keep her strong and happy.
On other things..it may get dark early but my days feel very long!
I do give her credit, lots and lots of it. I’m immensely proud of her, and as you say, of us too for how she is.
Never a bad thing to remember that that needs to continue though; we’ve had the opportunity for a few complacent years where her friends and peers have been kind about her speech and her face and teeth have been great or at least disguised as just ordinary gaps, her confidence high and the ops in the background. It’s going to change soon though, at least the ops and braces and false teeth and everything else are going to be big business for her. I think a photo that reminds her she’s gorgeous is a good idea 😉
My dd wouldn’t care either. Last year she wrote a letter to a HE friend that was so appallingly badly spelt it got passed round everyone we know for a laugh. I was mortified. She did not give a monkies. Like being a Yorkshire HE celeb for all the wrong reasons. I had bilateral bat ears as a kid and the only person bothered was others. I had an op to put them back aged 12 but tbh it was never an issue for me.
Fran is beautiful and always will be.
love Ruth
I’m glad the photos went well. look forward to a scanned flickr!!!
Fran is beautiful, and i think her friends and peers at the moment wont bat their eyelids for any of the treatments she has at the moment.
you have brought her up to be unphased by her cleft, and hopefully that normality will help her sail through.
I know you do. I meant give yourself some.
Hope you are asleep and Josie is tied to her cot!
Can’t wait to see the photos.
I think all your children are very beautiful xxxx