Lauren is FINALLY starting school. Next Tuesday I will be taking her in to join in for an afternoon, and the same on Wednesday. The week after we’ll do a little bit too and from the 4th of June all her staff will start and she’ll get the last half term of year 4 before my beautiful girl is old enough for year 5 😳 (no idea where that time has gone).

The system failed us again for absolute certainty. Mostly it failed Lauren and unfortunately this story is not unique across our ever failing country.

A few years back we were promised by David Cameron that the elderly and disabled would be taken care of. Little did we know it was to try eradicate them from society as much as possible. This government and their cuts and lack of concern for our families does utterly grind on me. I do have to rein myself in and concentrate on us though- otherwise I’d go crazy.

Right now this little girl

… is who matters.

Uniform is bought (optimistically months ago!!) and we went to see the school and the new deputy last week who showed Lauren & us around. She of course left them wanting more of THAT smile!

They’re going to wish they had her sooner. And I’m going to stay a little bitter for now that there was nowhere safer, because the school is actually an old dingy thing with a couple of staff who already used up their ‘one strike and you’re out’ with me. They’ll probably never earn it back.

So… dare we say it again ?? This little munchkin

will be starting to transition back to formal education next week and at least get a half term out of year 4. We have definitely run a few marathons consecutively but this will be bitter sweet. I’ll miss this girl soooo much. But we’ll both love the separation… were very similar like that 😉🙂

Love the Birch 3. Xx

P.s. feeling loads better- both of us!! 😘