today I reached the end of another tether! almost every morning when I pull off the highway into where I park at my boys school, I get ‘honked’ and quite often i almost have the back of the car ran into. It’s not illegal to pull off the highway into a driveway people, so get over it…..I am allowed to slow down before I pull over. And why do I continue to park in this spot? Because the Principal of the school kindly offered me a park in the staff car park, so I wouldn’t have to carry Veronika as far, and for that I am grateful. especially after injuring my shoulder lifting and carrying her last year.

so whats a girl to do when she reaches the end of her tether with ignorant motorists…..you go to the local council to complain, and when they tell you it’s not their ‘area’ of road they look after, because it’s a highway….you then write a letter to the editor at the Mercury(our local newspaper)…

To the motorists on East Derwent Highway in the mornings…..I have been kindly offered a car park in the staff car park at St Cuthbert’s School off the East Derwent Highway in Lindisfarne….why has the Principal kindly allowed me, a parent to park in this car park, because my daughter who is 4, has different abilities (some people would say severe multiple disabilities), and as a result needs to be carried. The Principal thought it would make it easier for me if I didn’t need to carry her as far, and for that I am grateful. What I don’t appreciate is just about every morning, being ‘honked’ at, and often almost being ran into, by impatient motorists as I slow down to pull into the car park, after all it isn’t illegal to pull off a highway into a driveway. If all you have to complain about by ‘honking’ your horn at me in the mornings is that you are slowed down for a few seconds, tell someone who cares….my life would be so much easier if my 4 year old could walk, talk and eat….but until she can I will continue to slow down to pull off the highway into the car park.

So I don’t know if it will get published, but I felt a whole lot better after I wrote it. As I put in the letter, if all you have to complain about is being slowed down for a few seconds in the morning as I slow down to pull off the highway, tell someone who cares, because if that all I had to complain about…….

so I am either at the end of my tether with ignorant motorists…..or it has just hit me that I now have a 4-year-old, who doesn’t walk, who doesn’t talk, and who really doesn’t eat….

but I love her to the moon and back, because she is Veronika, and she is perfect just the way she is