ESP Newsletter w/e 10th September 2006

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

We have had 9 new members join us in the last week – so a big ESP Welcome to ramsbottom61, keford, aussiecath, jo123, Sharri, k8nite, Tricia, James, jolace. If you haven’t already, come and let us know about you and your family in Introductions where we have opened a thread especially for each of you. If you need any help with anything just send an email to wiccababe

E.S.P. MEMBERSHIP

We only have a few simple rules for members of ESP, most of them are to ensure the online confidentiality of our members – you can find them here. Our system disables accounts that haven’t been used for a certain period of time. If you haven’t posted on the site in a while this may have happened to your account. This is a safeguard against trolls and other unsavoury elements who visit sites like ESP for “amusement”, so all we ask is that you post now and again to keep your account active.

The administrators can re-activate disabled accounts manually, so if you find your account disabled please get in touch with either wiccababe or GBro.

ESP2 EXPANDING

Our sister site, ESP2 is steadily expanding, and we now have special sections for your Holiday and Occasions photographs and stories; including birthdays, holidays, weddings and achievements. As well as a section for your birth stories, be they funny, scary or downright outrageous.

If you haven’t already registered on ESP2, please remember to use the same username as you do on the main site.

LET'S SUPPORT EACH OTHER

So that we can support as many parents and carers as possible, it would be extremely helpful if you could all make a short (or long if you have the time) post about your child(ren)’s condition(s) in the relevant forum (I have attached a list of conditions and where you can find them on the site). If you haven’t been able to find parents and carers with children who have similar conditions to your children it may be because you and other members just haven’t posted yet.

To give you an idea of what I’m talking about just have a look at some of these threads Willow’s Story – Anal Atresia, Daniel’s Story – Cerebral Palsy, foregut dysmotility affecting the esophagus and down, or Riliths thoughts.

If you’re not sure where to post just let me know and I’ll see if I can help out at all.

COMPETITIONS

I am chuffed to announce that the winner of the 16,000th post was Terrimumof3 who wins a wee box of choccies

The next big box of chocs will be for the member who makes the 20,000th post, but as that is a little way off yet, there will be mini chocolate prizes for the 17, 18 and 19 thousandth posts. As always, it makes no difference if it is your 1st or 500th post, but you have to be in it to win it.

The September ESP Trivia Challenge has just started, so there is plenty of time for all of you to play for a chance to win.

The winner of the caption competition (2nd Sept) was flump_02

For details of all the competitions, just take a look at the Competitions & Quizzes forum

CELEBRATIONS

This week’s special occasions:

Remember to add all your special occasion to the ESP Calendar.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE

Graham Brockie & Debbi Robertson

www.extra-special-parents.org