Gratitude!

I’m really enjoying that I’m going into work less (also, that I’m going in at easier times). I’m also very pleased that the timetable for next year has been (broadly) agreed and that I (currently) have a slightly easier time of it.

Some less grateful stuff - I’m stuffing from a certain grumpiness at work. I’m waiting to find out who our new boss will be, and the outlook for the next five or ten years doesn’t look amazing. I’m feeling very overweight. Indeed, since Leo was born I have gained weight at a fast weight than them and Leo is now six.

However, this week I ticked off difficult work, I sent vulnerable emails and I got generous replies. I went climbing and swimming, biking and running. I played new games with the kids. I spent the day in a wonderful library having ideas about next year’s teaching. Elsewhere I came up with ideas for other things. Kat and I have been spring cleaning various things from calendars to pantries. I’ve cried at films and got through at a book that has been on my shelf for years. I finally got my raspberry pi up and running. It’s been a really good week.

I also found £1 in a locker at swimming, so that was lovely. Nova has won some sort of award in school and Leo read to me from a book today in a wonderfully clear way. Kat made me a salad using leaves from our garden. I have arranged to visit a museum with dear friends.

Incredibly in all of this I have been quite grumpy most mornings, and a good number of the afternoons.