#81.20 - Back to non wobble

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Animals play while we are away

So after a few days of trying to find our feet - this time last week we were wondering if the schools would close and closed they are, although no one was very surprised, to be honest. However, that still meant a couple of days scrambling about to get things ready and now that it has happened, I am hoping that it will go fine...

It looks like everyone is doing well. I must learn to relax. A friend told me yesterday, I think you need to accept that you are a great teacher Steph and stop worrying about it. Sigh. I suppose I will have to.

I have also noticed that I have really neglected myself over the past few weeks, if not months - possibly since mid January. I now understand what the phrase 'letting herself go' means. It means not really caring about very much and making do. Well I am no longer making do. I do have standards and these standards are going to be set once more and I am going to adhere to them. There was an unfathomable two weeks when I was eating lots of carbs. Also my exhaustion seems to have petered off - as in I'm not so exhausted anymore. That said, I should continue doing what I do. The hot flushes are also occurring less often. In fact I can't think of anytime it has happened in the last week.

Right... I am going to organise the rest of the week. It has been such an amazing time living within this pandemic. Never did I think it would come to this. I am ENJOYING the down time. The peace. The garden, the possibilities.

To possibilities suddenly opening up like flowers in the spring.

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