But different from others, it’s a Monday after an impromptu week off, not only for me with my arm, but the rest of the staff and pupils too because of the snow.
This shall be sweet chaos I am sure…
No one will have anything planned and ready for a Monday, as is usually the case.
The kids will be wild. They will want to tell us all they got up to, but equally, they won’t want to be back at school. I know the feeling. I’d rather be home too!
Still…
And added to the back to work bit, it is time for my in-laws annual trip back to the Motherland, so that means juggling plenty so that I am able to be there for the kids at the end of the day.
Usually (I am lucky), I drop my son to his grandparents and he walks to his secondary school, then walks home to them. My father in law picks up my daughter, so she isn’t hanging around until I finish at 5-5.30 pm.
But it’ll be a tad different the next 7 weeks!
Eek!
I’ll still be around, (oh you won’t get rid of me that easily!) but possibly more fraught than usual!
Oh, and FYI, the arm… It still hurts… but I will survive!
It’s before 7am, and I am up… again… in the dark, faffing around and getting ready for work, preparing the kids things for school…
Did I really have a week off?
You may recall my post last week about what I had planned during our half term. If not you can check it out here!
There was not much R and R involved in the eventual plans for the week, what with kids having plenty planned, and driving up to my folks, then birthday things going on.
It all went to plan.
The car cost me an arm – rather than an arm and a leg – due to finding a great company that picked up the car, and dropped it back to us, with a service and MOT done in the middle.
The kid’s sleepover was great too – I just love seeing their cheeky faces when they have an opportunity to act all grown up, and they pushed the sleep time, but I was just glad they had fun,
The trip to Pops and Mum was short but sweet. We spent time together, popped out for lunch and shopping, and spent a wonderful evening watching old cine films again! They had found reels containing footage from when I was born, to my first steps, dancing (Lil Princess wanted to know why the 11 month old me was “twerking”! Try explaining the huge butt, thanks to a terry towelling nappy, and the baby bounce that all babies do, when they don’t have the ability to move on their feet too much, but want to enjoy the music!) in my own way, to my first trio to see family in Kenya. It was precious to see me with my maternal grandparents, and my Pops’s brother, all who aren’t with us any more.
I managed to film a couple of clips on my phone for you to share with me!
Here is me with my special style of crawling!
And here are those first steps!
I didn’t get much rest though, as I spent the first night chatting to my parents until late, and the second on the phone to my bestie until the wee hours. It was a much needed catch up, and many sage words of advice were spoken, making me feel a bit better about all sorts of things.
Back to reality (as in home) meant we were getting prepared for the Saturday night birthday treat for Lil Princess. It was a concert by The Little Mix Experience, a tribute band of her favourite group at the moment, Little Mix. It was a lovely evening, and I shall post in more detail about that tomorrow!
Yesterday was spent getting ready for today… Bleurgh!
I don’t want to go back to school!
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Actually, that isn’t entirely true. I am happy to be going back to a little routine. And I am not in as much of a funk as I was in January. Yesterday, I dyed my hair – Goodbye greys! – and beautified myself!
I’m feeling more positive, and more ME!
So here’s to a good new term, full of fun and craziness at home too, when the in laws go to India, and I have extra childcare to juggle, on top of usual mum/wife/ teacher duties… argh!
Happy Monday Peeps! Have a great week!!!
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Pants.
That is how I feel this morning, actually!
Because I’m back at work today.
It should have been last Thursday, where I could have eased my way back into a new term with two INSET (staff training ) days, but because of the impromptu sick bug visit to our house, I was incapacitated, and unable to go in.
But that means back to the grindstone today… with all the children in too, and me feeling like a fish out of water, as I honestly don’t feel like I know what I am doing today!
It’s been a long time since I have felt so bleurgh about going back to work.
Hopefully, it’s just the post-holiday blues…
Oh well.
See you tomorrow, where I hope I will be able to tell you things are all just fine and dandy at school!
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Six weeks have flown by, filled with weddings, writing and more writing! But it is time to head back through those hallowed doors of my school, ready to start another year of teaching.
I am slightly apprehensive, this year. There are a few changes to my professional role. Some of you may remember. I mentioned it before the end of term.
This year, I am not just responsible for the Nursery class. I will be teaching two days a week in Reception, and three days in my beloved Nursery. Additionally, I will be taking responsibility for the School Council, Eco Schools, and Healthy Schools with a colleague of mine… AND (there’s always an AND!) I am officially on the board of Governors too!
Phew!
Today will be filled with preparation and planning. The children start back on Tuesday. And my first Governors meeting is on Thursday evening.
And along with all this new stuff, I still need to be wife and mother, and write my blog, and finish my WIP!
I am not going to get myself het up about anything. Instead, I’ll handle things in my own Ritu-style – with a smile.
If I am not as vocal, or I miss posts from you, I apologise in advance. I shall try my best to keep up with everything, but I can’t promise… This is where that clone machine would come in handy! I have loved being free to read and write more the last month and a half. I know I won’t have that luxury now, but I won’t give it up either – don’t worry!
And I will eat cake.
It’s tradition to bring some cake in on your birthday, so I have a huge supply (not home baked this time, I was a tad busy!) ready to distribute to my colleagues.
So, I shall leave you to your business, and I’m pretty sure that by the end of the week, I’ll have something to report back to you about how my Teaching life is shaping up!
Today’s the day that I stop my double eating, and get back into the routines that I am used to!
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t stopped eating naughtily since my last shout out about eating double last week!
Easter for some reason is the hardest holiday for me to be good! At Christmas, I indulged but managed to keep some control.
But for some reason, these two weeks I just lose my grip and, well, eat!
Every day was started with good intentions. Each breakfast has been healthy (apart from the croissants when I was back home with my parents!). Some lunches were ‘on plan’, but the snacking and the dinners…
I didn’t open the Easter eggs until Easter Sunday but there were all these other excuses to eat previously forbidden or limited food… takeaways, scones, hot cross buns, crisps, biscuits, chocolates… Oh man!
And I have to be honest. I am feeling it. Feeling the bloat, and lethargy associated with unhealthy eating.
So today, I have packed my lunch and fruit snacks, will eat a good breakfast this morning, and make sure my dinner is sensible, and try and ensure that again every day.
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