You can tell kids are back to school, when the coughing and snuffling begins…
Especially those younger ones, picking up all sorts of bugs new to them, and kindly spreading them all to their classmates, and very often, to their teachers too!
One of my team are down already, with some sort of virus… and I fear my weekend will also be tainted with something too… I went to sleep with a lovely hacking cough, and have woken up with achey body too. How wonderful!
The aches, I am not sure if they are related to exhaustion, but on top of that, my knee is hurting too! About 18 months ago, thanks to my lovely Sonu Singh, I twisted it quite badly while exercising, and once in a while it plays up… obviously all the getting up and down with my lovelies is not helping.
So my weekend, which I thought would be a relaxing catch up on sleep one, will also need to include express getting better too!
This is the hard thing about teaching. You feel you can’t be ill, and even if you are, you soldier on. Yes there are supply teachers around – some good, and some not so – and if need be, you have to take time off, but for the most part, your average teacher will not take a day off, they will soldier on, conscious that there is so much to do. One day off means a whole chunk of learning and observation you missed. There is the worry of no guarantee of what the supply teacher will be like, and whether your planned work will be executed correctly, or not.
See, we hate to be ill, really, it’s so detrimental to our job, and to your children’s learning.
The flip side is that you end up working yourself even sicker, and then when those mythical holidays that all teachers get, arrive, you spend half of them getting better, and the other half planning for whatever is next on your plans!
So if your child’s teacher is ever ill, and not there, know it must be something pretty bad, and if they are unwell, give them some extra love, they are only dragging themselves in for your children!
Right, I am off to finally relax, after cleaning the house from top to bottom, feeding the kids, and catching up on my notifications!
Tomorrow morning I have some drop offs and pick ups for the kids, and some homework to help them with, then I can finally be a little unwell!
Enjoy your weekend all!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Sep 19, 2015 @ 19:33:14
I remember this! I had to practically be dead or dying to use a sick day — not because I thought I was invaluable, but because throwing together lesson plans someone else could follow (while hacking up a lung) was so blasted aggravating. Get healthy & stay healthy!!
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 20:56:58
Thanks Laura!!!! I’m just so tired!!! These pre school untrained lovelies are totally draining!!!!!!!
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 01:35:05
I use hand sanitizer so much! I know it’s not the best thing to do but I use it between each class period.
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 08:17:12
I am forever washing my hands…. God know what I’d pick up if I didn’t!!!!
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 00:30:34
Have a great weekend sis. What a week you’ve had but you made it. Get some rest and that’s a big bruv order☺
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 08:16:21
Thanks bro! I’ll try my darnedest!!!!
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 09:17:50
☺
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 22:45:17
Hope you’re feeling better quickly and find the time to take care of YOU!!!
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 23:31:00
Thank you Dorinda! Here’s hoping! 😊
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 22:42:44
Happy weekend to you, Ritu! I am glad you made it through this week and I hope you are doing ok and not getting sick. I send you a huge dose of love. Big hugs, blog sis 😷
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 23:30:29
Thank you big sis, I’ll need it! 😘😍😊
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 23:51:28
I believe so! Sleep well 😘😘😘
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 08:15:01
Thanks sis!!!
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Sep 19, 2015 @ 10:21:22
🙂
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 20:15:33
Oh Miss Hap has got a nasty cold at the moment, (Probably caught Mr Grump’s man flu but doesn’t make a fuss)!
I am working all over this weekend, but have had days off in the week which has been quite nice.. Hope you manage to have some quality ‘you’ time over the weekend that is not just trying to get better!! 🙂
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 21:04:02
Fingers crossed, but I don’t hold out much hope… Just had a little asthma bout toi… 😑
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 20:10:21
I always thought if my teacher was missing it was because she was hung over. there was a a bad lot that caused her to drink. I wasn’t part of that bad lot just so you know.
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 20:12:06
Uh oh!!!! Oh to have the energy to drink lol!
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 20:40:46
you mean you don’t???
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 21:04:45
Very very rarely!
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 21:06:13
you don’t live right
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 21:33:56
I’m too tired to live ‘right’!
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 20:10:19
They’re like little petri dishes.They’ve recently got back to school, and they all have colds now. Yay fall.
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Sep 18, 2015 @ 20:11:45
I know! Roll on Christmas lol!!!
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