No news yet!!!

We've just been away overnight, and I was so hoping to come home to an email from DCSF with the magical dossier package dimensions so that I could arrange for them to be shipped to Addis. But it was not to be :-( I even had Mr Messy faffing around on his iPhone to remotely check the webmail last night when we were away lol. Well its only Wednesday so there's another couple of days before this week is finished!!

We were away collecting Drama Teen from her ski camp and then driving her over to LMS's University to stay with LMS until weekend. Drama Teen was very tired and quiet in the car after we picked her up, and it turns out not only was she tired she was also waiting for a boy from camp to get in touch! We had booked ourselves into a hotel in University Town, and were all going to eat together in the hotel restaurant. We got checked in and swapped our stuff into Drama Teens huge suitcase and got her to put everything she needed into our small, pull along suitcase, so that it would be easier for her and LMS to bring her stuff back on the train at weekend. By this time LMS had arrived and we made our way over to the restaurant. Our table was a huge one with loads more chairs than we needed, and Little Prince dived straight to the head of the table chair, me and LMS sat either side of him and Drama Teen and Mr Messy went to the other end of the table! I was very upset by this, and despite me telling them this they refused to move. So it was a pretty uncomfortable meal :-( Once back in our room Little Prince insisted that LMS put him to bed, and then sobbed when her and Drama Teen went off to her University rooms :-( I tried to get him settled, but he wasn't having it, then Mr Messy tried to get him settled and he had as much luck as me. We then spent a frustrating hour or so telling Little Prince to settle down, which he normally can do very easily, but as he'd napped earlier in the car he was having none of it! By about 10.30pm we gave up, got in bed and turned out all the lights, which is what finally got Little Prince to go to sleep!

We had to be up and out early in the morning to get back home in time for me to go to an appointment with the Citizen's Advice Bureau who were going to assist me in filling in the application forms for Little Prince to receive Disability Living Allowance. Despite our cross country marathon drive we were only 10 minutes late for the appointment, and that was because of roadworks just 5 mins from the Bureau's offices! Not bad :-) It was extremely depressing filling the form in, and going through all the different areas and highlighting Little Prince's difficulties. But the advisor thinks we have made a pretty good case for getting the Allowance and I've got to let him know how we get on. I've pretty much decided I'm going to use the money to pay for a part time nanny (with experience of SNs), so that me and Mr Messy can have a night out every now and again. Little Prince needs such a high level of care and supervision I am not at all comfortable in letting the local teenage babysitters look after him and need someone with more experience and authority!