no honey! we have a long haired border collie (but don't you dare tell him that he is a dog!!!!), unfortunately or fortunately depending how you look at it, Sheppy was our substitute baby since he was 5 weeks old (even worse when we were going through the intial diagnosis and IVF stuff) there's a picture of him with Paige in my gallery, I wanted a beagle when we were looking for a dog but disregarded the breed for that reason LOL now Sheppy has become a little stress head and a total mummy's boy (he's converted now that DH is working shift work)
Oh well he'll survive I guess, as long as he doesn't pee of the neighbours.
I know what you mean about the energy required to stand in front of a class, I didn't have the energy or interest in working today so I chilled with my charges and we watched a couple of dvds on the TV that I set up in the outdoor area (the children kept saying "TV....Outside????" I think it threw them a bit)
I've got the stresses going on at the moment I always do when I start a new FET it comes from trying to arrange all of my appointments to suit work and I always still end up feeling guilty, think I should be right for next Monday the only appointment I could get was at 3:10pm not the easiest time to manage when you are finishing at 6pm hoping the big boss will be ok she's the one who is usually ok but every so often throws a curly one just to knock you off your feet, she's been on holidays for 3 weeks and gets back on Monday I just have to keep telling myself "stuff her, they don't pay me enough to stress" it doesn't seem to work that well though.