#Blogging 101 What’s up with my title, and why my tagline

Here it is!

My blog is entitled But I Smile Anyway… because it pretty much sums me up. 

I am generally known as the one who always has a smile on my face, come rain or smile, tired or not, sick or healthy. I am Little Mrs Positive! 

I like to think I’m a glass half full kinda gal, who always looks in the brighter side. The grass may well be greener on the other side, but hey, my side’s pretty cool too!

The ‘But’ is there as sometimes I might not want to smile, in fact I am human, and life gets me down too, but I’ve been brought up to face things with a smile. Not necessarily accept what I don’t like, but in my experience, a smile does generally make many things better. 

And it can help others too. It costs nothing, but gives so much… (Oh, and exercises my facial muscles more than a frown does too!!)

My tagline, ‘Musings and memories, words and wisdom…of a working family woman’, sums the blog up pretty much perfectly, to be honest. 

It’s got my thoughts, memories, my writing, and a little bit of advice sprinkled un here and there, courtesy of Spidey’s Serene Sunday’s! 

And of course, I am a working family woman, working in education and being a wife, mum, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, aunt etc it is all more than a full time jib, yet I still find time for my blog! (How, I don’t know!)

Costumier Extrordinaire!

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Guess?!

Its World Book Day on Thursday and alongside many schools here, we dress up, staff n all, as book characters!
I’ve been Miss Battleaxe from Horrid Henry…

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Yes, that is me...!

Alice in Wonderland

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Dark haired Alice!

And Burglar Bill!

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Shhh!!!

This year the staff theme is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory… There will be an awful lot of Oompa Loompas around, so I’m going as a…

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Wonka Bar!

And I won’t need an orange face either!!!

But I Smile Anyway...

It’s all happening here!

Well, now I’ve cleared the glitch with regards to my Blogging 101 course, I am looking forward to a month of extra special posts!

(on top of the special ones I post generally!)

And I have signed up for a course, like a proper course too!

I qualified as a teacher in 1997 then didn’t work in education until 2010. in that time a LOT had changed, and as it stands, I work as a HLTA, a Higher Level Teaching Assistant. This means that I don’t have to go about the whole rigmarole of planning, preparation and assessment, like the class teacher, but I reap the rewards, I get to work with the kids, and do what I have wanted to do since I was a kid!  It suits me at the moment, as, with my own two children to think of, I know a teachers time outside of school is precious, and often it is still taken over by school related activities. I want to give them the support that a mother should be giving, as well as working towards a career back in teaching eventually.

Therefore, with the full encouragement of my family, and Head Teacher, I am taking a Return To Teach course! It will update my qualifications, get me up to scratch with new curriculums and the assessment procedures of today. It’s handy that I have been in school the last 4 years anyway, but to get that piece of paper to show I am officially up to date, will make me, ultimately, more employable too!

I had to arrange finance options as it isn’t cheap, but I’m nervously excited to be starting this at the end of April!

Wish me luck everyone!

#Blogging101 The Face Behind ‘But I Smile Anyway’

Hi there!

My name is Ritu, and I am a working mum.  So I have many jobs, I guess you could say!

At home, I am mummy, wife, daughter-in-law extrordinaire, and at work I am an educator to a bunch of beautifully crazy kids!

I love to write.  I have been writing since I was a tiddler, fiction, poems, you name it, I wanted to write it.  But the responsibilities of life kept on tearing me away from actually doing what I loved.  After seeing a friend of mine start a blog, I thought “Well, now there’s an idea!” An invitation to log in, or create an account, and well, you can see what I clicked on!

I love a good chit chat, and when no one wants to listen, I have to shut up, but hey, on here, I can type to my hearts content, and say what I want, whether its recounting a funny story, an opinion on a topic close to my heart, or showcasing my writing when inspiration hits. My children provide much inspiration for many of my posts, as do my family. My cultural background gives me much fodder too.  And it inspires me, words pour out of my mind, and onto the screen, whether it be a poem, or an informative piece.

I started blogging at the end of November 2014, and have really enjoyed my experience so far, and hope to continue to do so!  I have been enjoying the interaction with all my followers, and those that I follow immensely, and I am looking forward to being able to have the same relationships with many of you too!

I never thought that in such a short space of time, I would be being read by as many as I am, but I always strive to better myself, and I would love to encourage more readers, and get some feedback on what I do write.

Happy reading everyone!

Retraction time…!

So, after publishing about my frustration, I got a message to say I had been added..

It wasn’t their fault, but mine, and I am big enough to hold my hand up when I am wrong!

I had managed to make a typo when entering my email address!

Duh!!!!!!

So I will be back! With my first Blogging101 post soon!!

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