FAMILY MEETING AT ST GEORGE'S PARK...

... cancelled again by Christina. This was highly predictable, but disappointing nonetheless. I did, however, have a good conversation with the facilitator, who seems to have a pretty good grasp of the severity of Christina's illness and the impact this has on us as a family unit.

Hopefully, it will be rescheduled for a few weeks time, although this is the second time it's been cancelled, so I really hope we don't end up losing the slot and going back to the waiting list again.

We have tickets for the Lion King next weekend which we purchased months ago, when everything was much more stable. I can't imagine she will come, although she has texted today to say that she will. I have bad memories of the last Take That gig though, when she backed out at the very last minute on the day of the concert, having kept everyone waiting for hours and causing stress levels to escalate. If she doesn't come we can offer the ticket to someone else, instead of completely wasting about £70 and ending up with an unused ticket attached to a notice board which is where the TT ticket ended up - and still is to this day.

I do have major concerns about how we're going to organise this trip to the theatre, because it's next Saturday and, of course, we have a match in the afternoon. We can't leave the girls all day. We won't have time to get home from the match to feed them and let them stretch their legs, then get to Sunderland by 7.30. Claire has kindly offered to come up to see to them during the afternoon, but I don't really want to put her out, especially as she is allergic to them and, although she copes with them for short periods, they will be all over her if she comes to sort them out and I don't want her to feel uncomfortable. Part of me thinks that maybe I should go to the game and then come home and let the others go to the theatre. I would be hugely disappointed to miss it, but at least I would know that the girls were okay. Sadly, we don't know anyone in the village well enough to ask them to pop round to check on them. So, it's a problem, and I'm not sure what the answer is.