Thanks, guys. I really appreciate having messages of support like that... Some days are rough, and I think today was worse than yesterday, and I'm just exhausted. Teenagers are hard to work with, but the job is rewarding as well. It is nice to hear that the teaching profession is valued by some - even if it's not necessarily the parents of the kids I teach!

Funnily enough, we just had the conversation about how if it weren't for the money we wouldn't do it... but a lot of that feeling here is from the extra stuff we have to do - paperwork and the political nonsense in schools.

Hopefully DH will arrive here very soon to pick me up and I can get my fix of Sam cuddles... and then get back to preparing a lesson to be observed by my HOD tomorrow.

BW