A morning off!!!

Our second day with the carer today and, once again, it seems to have gone rather well. I hope I know better by now than to expect it to go perfectly every week but I do feel we're making progress. I had a plan of course, a plan which would explain, on a basic level, why I'd gone out and a plan which I hoped would ease us into a new way of living. This week, on advice from others, I didn't mention L coming until 9am (she was due at 9.30) and that worked because Ash didn't have time to panic. He thought he might wait until she arrived and then take her for a walk with the dog but he wasn't sure where to go. At that point I reminded him that he'd promised her, if she brought her wellies this week, he'd take her down through the wood at the other end of the village and he seemed pleased with that idea. L arrived and off they went with the only slightly sticky bit coming when I said I might be out when they got back but we got him out of the house and I too