We're in the middle of a very rare child free 'weekend' (Fri & Sat). Our eldest is away and our youngest in respite until Sunday morning so we actually managed to go out for a meal locally last night with no mishaps!!! Hoping to pop out this afternoon too if nothing goes wrong.
It was understandably a bit tense though as last time we had a Fri/Sat break our lad had a major fit at the respite centre and we got an emergency call to head up there ASAP. Luckily we hadn't gone far that evening and in the event we had to give him his emergency medication to terminate the seizure. After turning down the standard ambulance service advice to take him to A&E (really didn't fancy 6 hours on a trolley in a hectic A&E on a Friday night), we had to bring him home semi-conscious and I spent the night sleeping on the floor in his bedroom just in case. Fine weekend break that turned out to be. Fingers crossed this one proves better...