WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

We have had a whopping 13 new members join us in the last week – so a big ESP Welcome to Katherna, eleanor, whitedolphin, BabyBlue, sjc1985, Shaz, Samantha Brown, jenandgeorge, emmygirl, sssueee, donna2512, nikki and mummygilmour. 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

ESP RULES

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.

Also, please remember to resize any photo’s you post, and especially any pictures that you use in your signature – signature pics should be no bigger than 200x300 pixels.

ESP 2

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.

COMPETITION WINNERS

We can announce that the winner of the 17,000th post was mumof4 (Nikki) who wins a wee box of choccies and so did Georgiesmummy for the 18,000th post – well done ladies!

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 prize for the 19 thousandth post. 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 is well under way, but there is plenty of time for all of you to play for a chance to win.

The winner of the caption competition (9th Sept) was mumof4 and (16th Sept) was Georgiesmummy

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

CELEBRATIONS

This week’s special occasions:

Children’s Hospice Week and National Eczema Week both started on Saturday 16th September

Rilith’s daughter Holly-Marie is celebrating her 1st birthday on Wednesday 20th September

Cernskaz's son Ro'ane is celebrating his 1st birthday on Thursday 21st September

Smileybird63's son David is celebrating his 5th birthday on Friday 22nd September

Sueby and Taff's are getting married on Saturday 23rd September, and it is also Cat 1975 6th wedding anniversary

And Sunday 24th September is Emma and Neil's 6th wedding anniversary.

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

FIND A FAMILY

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 Rilith's thoughts.

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

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND

Graham Brockie & Debbi Robertson

www.extra-special-parents.org