Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “In the.” Start your post with the words “In the” – that’s the prompt! Enjoy!
In the morning, I rise, usually, totally knackered.
Honestly. I am of an age where late nights do not suit, but I am unable to sleep in very much, either.
Yet I live in a household where the rest of them can stay up until goodness knows when, and then sleep until the afternoon!
However, it also means a broken night of sleep for me. Because, someone is watching TV a tad too loudly, someone is rustling things in the kitchen, someone comes to bed and knocks things over…
You know the score.
So, although I do count myself as a morning person, I am definitely not your most rested person, especially in term time, when my morning starts at 6am!
Another truly rambling SoCS post, there, for you! (Linda, that was a toughie!)
Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “resolve.” Use it as a noun or a verb. Have fun!
When I first read this I thought ‘Here we go again… resolutions…’, and I don’t really make them. Not with any integrity, anyway. (I’m being honest, here!)
Many a year has gone by where I have resolved to do things, lose weight, write this, give up that… And every year, I found myself making the same resolutions.
The last few years, I gave myself a word for the year, which I guess, could tie into the traditional resolutions, but this means a more holistic approach to reaching the end goal, because that word has to encompass your life.
But, one way or another I do resolve to finish this WIP draft, this year, (hopefully sooner!) and I shan’t promise it, but I hope to get stuck in to book 3 too. Oh, and finish that novella I was writing, as well.
A writer’s resolve.
Always strong, but sometimes not always something we can adhere to, especially when life gets in the way!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “tree.” Use the word “tree” or write about a tree. Any kind of tree. Enjoy!
So, today I decided to do a bit of singing, and it happens to be about a certain festive tree…
Listen at your own peril! (Actually, it didn’t sound too bad, apart from a slightly flat note right at the end, when I was trying to stop my son from coming into my room, and ruining all my recording efforts!)
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “golly gee.” Use “golly gee” or another interjection that displays the same sentiment in your post. Enjoy!
Golly Gee!
Quite the expression to use for how I felt on my way home from work, on Friday evening, when I received a call from someone I know, telling me they had recommended me as an author for them to sign up to their Publishing House!
Apparently, she sent the link to my book to one of the co-founders of the Publishing house, and they loved the sound of Marriage Unarranged, and the future titles to follow!
Now, I’m not holding my breath, because I need to see what the deal is, but Golly Gee, indeed!
YouYour Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “lid.” Use it in the literal sense, use it in the metaphorical sense, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Shhhhh! Can you keep a secret? Can you keep a lid on it? Lips shut? Schtum?
Well, my little secret is that I am writing this whilst a little tiddly, to say the least! I haven’t had a drink for quite a while, and tonight, I have consumed a whole bottle of Gin Fizz… Oops! A WHOLE BOTTLE!
Now, it’s not often that I indulge.
To be honest, we teachers may say we are going to drown our troubles on a Friday night, but I know that I, for one, am so shattered, that a drink would just send me to sleep, early, and I can do that without the liquid assistance!
However, tonight, I felt the need to. It’s been five weeks since we went back to school. I have a wonderful, but very challenging, class. Three children who require one to one support, but who don’t have it, yet, because of resource. Another who has medical needs on top of other needs, too. All of them are loveable children, who need specialist provision, but the world around us thinks they need to be part of an inclusive education.
I’m all for inclusion, but sometimes, it isn’t the right thing for those kids.
I find my inputs interrupted, every time, as one of my lovelies walks through the rest of the class, like a bulldozer – no spatial awareness – to come and sit on my lap, or to take my hand and lead me to whatever they want, at the time. Or, in groupwork, my group is left unattended, for a few moments, as I deal with a meltdown, or an issue with one of the children who have these needs.
You see, these kids find it hard to conform to what the rest of the class are doing. They dance to the beat of their own drums, right now. They are still exploring the environment, and can’t follow instructions. Yet, in their own way, they show their own brilliance.
It’s not easy, but the rest of the class have been angels.
They are aware, already, at the age of four, or five, that there are children who have very specific needs, and there is barely any fussing. They just let those children get on with whatever they do, whilst waiting for Mrs B to get back to them.
These kids are superstars, seriously.
All of them.
With needs or not.
All children are blessings.
Did you know that the Cockney rhyming slang for kids is saucepan lids? See, my ramble did have something to do with the prompt, I promise!
And now, I shall sign off, as the words are starting to swim in front of my eyes!
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