Sam is much better now, KellyD, thanks so much for asking!

I'm finding things really hard with being back at work. I'm feeling slammed by everything at the moment, and really didn't think it would be so hard. I guess I kinda felt that it was just going back to the same school as before so the start of this year wouldn't be any different to the start of any other year... WRONG! I forgot that a whole year has progressed and things have changed. The kids I remember as year 10 are now year 12. The year 8 kids have no memory of me being a teacher in that school and so they are testing me out as a new teacher. Because I didn't have much to do with year 7 in my last year at school, they are pretty much in the same boat as the year 8s and are REALLY pushing the boundaries. Add to that trying to get my head around new technology and new ways of doing things... And then I have to come home and still me a mummy, and it's just way harder than I thought it would be. I'm glad that DH is only working one day per week as I just could not do the daycare thing every day of the week... maybe when Sam is older and likes it a bit more, but not right now.

But... DH and Sam got sick with a cold, DH added gastro to the mix which Sam fortunately didn't get and me... I'm feeling so lucky as I missed out on both, even with my compromised immune system! Week 4 has ended and I'm still well, but another teacher in my faculty dropped to illness today. I'm glad I wasn't the first.

Anyway, Sam is just being gorgeous. DH has some beautiful photos of him playing in the yard with garden tools. I drove to work today with Sam in the back trying to say his own name. Moments like these make all the years of hell and heartbreak so worthwhile.

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