Time for reflection

The nearly 6 year old has now gone home leaving time and space for me to reflect on what worked and what didn't over the past week. So after due consideration and mulling it over in my mind I would have to say that there was nothing that didn't work. There were one or two tweaks but all to the good so that was ok. As he was here all last weekend with Jake I thought Ash might need a break so had planned activities which didn't involve him. That lasted until lunch time on the first day when I realised that Ash really wanted to be at the nearly 6 year old's side as much as possible. Tuesday afternoon then saw us at the beach with a friend and her grandson as planned but after that it was just the three of us and Ash was more like the old him than I've seen in a very long time. He laughed and joked, played tricks, made things. mended things, sat with us, started conversations and was in charge of bath time at the end of each day. What became increas...