I’m still angry to find she’d been gifted a conservatory from ScS - new flooring and furniture - when a woman leaving refuge would have massively appreciated flooring. Even a sofa.
As if that isn’t bad enough, they allowed another winner to have a #gifted make over and someone wrote on here that it went to her friend. (I’m not sure how true this was, but just let that sink in.... she and her friend being gifted house revamps when the very women she claims to help have nothing)
And a car. Think of those women who are struggling with two or three children, Rachel. Imagine that pram and a buggy board would have been amazing to donate
Mrs H, how is she now? She sounds just like my daughter. When it’s just us, she’s a handful and I often silently wish someone would come along and offer to take her for a walk or to the park so I can have five minutes. She wakes up very early and is non-stop until she goes to bed.
She’s very inquisitive and lovely, but it’s draining. However, when we are out she won’t speak to anyone. She’s just starting to say “thank you” when we are out having a coffee and juice, before she would not say anything and I had to speak for her. I’ve paid a lot for swimming lessons but she would become tearful, I take her myself every week and she loves it.
I’m trying to get her to become independent and to understand money, so I encourage her to buy things herself at the till but she’ll only do this with me next to her.
She didn’t want to go to child care today because we didn’t have wraps; she gets worked up if she is unable to have everything in order (such as her lunchbox) so I had to pick wraps up. She gets very worried about things and it requires a lot of talking and reassuring. It’s hard work isn’t it? I’ve derailed this a bit sorry, just reassuring it’s not just us
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