Romeo's next chapter: an overheard conversation and a few nice things

So im going to start with something that happened a while ago but until I mentioned it to someone didn't think twice, she suggested popping it on here...

When we first moved in I was privileged to overhear a conversation between our seven year old and a six year old.. they were discussing their experiences in the B&B, and working out who's room was worse. (Apparently his had a leaking roof and no shower, but two joined rooms, we had bed bugs and a single room - I don't think the boys having a room was included!).
We often get carried away with our own thoughts, concerns and plans we often overlook the way small humans see things. We are incredibly lucky, our children (we hope) are doing ok, we talk, we laugh, they are allowed to be cross at the situation, we accept they are sad sometimes, we do try and explain what's happening without any blame, we have spent a while discussing with them what may happen (as I've said before that's the hardest conversation to have with your kids what may happen to them and what sofa can they sleep on).
Kids are amazing but sometimes we have to step back and listen to them. Being homeless is a very adult situation, and children simply aren't equipped for adult situations, its very black and white to them..
The one comment that made me realise that was

      'they (school) said we are a family but they took our home' (it still makes me cry now).

The situation is obviously not that simple, but that's how a seven year old sees it, its black and white, no varying shades of grey!

Now on a brighter note..

We can bid...   we are 16th for a five bedroom house in soho, if we can only get to 16 after 18 months of homelessness and all the other crap, I dread to think what the people at no 1 have had to endure!

We went to our daughters show.. (she was obviously amazing), she gave us two days warning to get an animal outfit for her to wear, that she chose not to use!! but she wore it home.... and got transported in style when she had no shoes on by her older brother!!