Ahhhh finally the holidays have arrived!! It's been a very long term, and everyone was feeling it I think, especially the kids! I'm thrilled I'm through my first sixth of my NQT year, I'm feeling a bit more settled and know more what I'm doing!! It's had its challenges, but doing what I can. We had a useful but quite melancholy Inset yesterday, on Child Protection. Followed by some adminny stuff and discussions about Christmas!!!! But didn't get round to half the stuff I needed to do, so I popped into school today for a few hours, caught up on all my marking, tidied my classroom, rearranged some stuff, did my last display, and sorted out some stuff so that I can get organised for next term! I was quite impressed!

Tomorrow I've got a bokwa class, need to do some work, hoping to get tickets for the a gig, and then we're heading out for dinner with friends! We have a busy couple of months coming up with weekends in Gower, down to Weymouth for a family christmas in November, birthdays, never mind preparing for Christmas!!!! Eeee!!

Good weekend!!

I've had a great weekend!! On Friday, we picked up Pete's parents and had a bit of a chat before heading to bed.

On Saturday morning, we got up early-ish and headed down to Weymouth to see my parents!! We had a good lunch, a wander up and down Weymouth sea-front, before eating MORE food then headed back home. It was lovely to introduce our parentals, after nearly 3 years!!

Today, Pete was supposed to run the Cardiff half marathon, but he woke up feeling a bit unwell so decided not to go. This meant we didn't have to get up before 7!!! Instead we walked into town for lunch and sat in the sunshine before I headed back to get on with schoolwork. Pete took his Dad to the cricket ground because his grandfather (Pete's great-grandfather) used to work there.

Plenty of cups of tea, Skyping some of the family, and we watched Felix Baumgartner do his unbelievable jump from 23 miles up. I am so amazed, and really glad for incredible, brave people like him pushing what we think is possible. Unbelievable!!!!

Anyway, just catching up with the X factor results and then will be off to bed shortly!!

I'm so glad it's the weekend!! Having a lovely chilled evening after a bit of a manic week at work. Highs and lows but ended well. Amazing support network and my mentor took the afternoon out of class, arranged cover for me so that we could work through some things that have been really stressing me out!

So I'm feeling much better and looking forward to next week, then only 2 days til the hoildays!! Hoping to get down to Bucks to catch up with some schoolfriends, then Mum is coming up to Bristol to watch a flamenco show for her birthday.

Busy weekend this weekend, Pete's parents are visiting from Aberdeen and we're going to head down to Weymouth tomorrow. Fingers crossed the weather looks like it's going to stay dry so we should be able to hit the beach!! (in a mid-October, blustery walk sense)

All in all though I'm feeling pretty content, time is flying, so I must be having fun!! I'm in pretty good health, finally kicking the gluten full-time and massively feeling the difference. Taking plenty of zinc and eating well, haven't touched dairy for months and allergies are almost non-existent. Amazing.

Sure there's loads of other stuff to mention but I'm pretty tired and this is already an odd-jobby blog so I'll leave it there but as always I must try to keep more up to date!

Ciao for now!!