Friday, September 13, 2013

Everything happens for a reason

The end of another rather messy week in our house.  William has been a bit under the weather for a few weeks and we went to Southampton on Wednesday to see our specialist nurse who has hopefully set him back on track.  We have lots of antibiotics to try and sort out his diversion colitis and a date for his next operation.  This is good news as we can get organised and start planning the grandparents rota!  One exciting thing is that William is the entire list for theatre that day!  Two surgeons all day is pretty big stuff for a small boy but hopeful takes him on to the next stage of his journey. Lets hope the antibiotics sort out the sickness as the washing machine is in constant use!

Things happen for a reason, although I was sorry not to be able to stay at St Mary's even the lovely people there wouldn't have put up with me taking the first week of term of and then another two weeks in the same half term.  My gap year was definitely for the best and I am getting lots of enjoyment and practice of target language teaching with year 6. Today we learnt numbers and played loto :) I am trying to make it fun for me and them, lets see how we get on!

Looking forward to a nice family weekend - we are meant to be going to legoland lets hope the rain holds off :) 

I am also hoping to get some time to catch up my learn something new everyday book and some scrapbooking!  

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

La rentrée!

Back to school this week and it feels strange not having lessons to plan or a tiny baby!  I am sure I will get used to it but the rhythm of the year seems out of kilter, not least because the sun is still shining!

William and I are off to Southampton next weds to try and do a poo!  Hopefully we will get him sorted and find out more about his next op, as second pull throughs are so unusual they want to use two consultant surgeons and need almost a full day in theatre. That will be hard to arrange and a very long day for us. But hopefully gets us closer to him starting school without a special need statement.

I am starting my little sessions with year 6 at Madeleine's school on Friday, I have to try and French fun and not ruin them for secondary school or use the material they will see next year when they get their metro 1 books!  Lots of flash cards and role play I think and I might even have to do some songs not my favourite thing!  It will be nice to keep working in the classroom though and even to remember what it is like to teach boys!

Bonne rentrée à tous!  Katie x