20.9.25 - Weekend 3

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The week has flown once more. I did very much have compassion fatigue. And I have realised that I can no longer be the lovely Stephanie with my class. They are very cheeky - but not overly so. 

Zero running apart from last Sunday. Zero anything else apart from school. ALTHOUGH on Thursday news arrived that Peter had agreed to the payout. Yes. Fuck yeah. I'm so fucking glad we hung in there. It's not as much as I thought I'd get, but that's alright. Something is better than nothing AND he is probably so pissed off that he has to do this now. 

So I did celebrate on Thursday night with two bottles of Prosecco. It was great. I did pay for it on Friday though. So today, I did do the kitchen and I'll do laundry after this. I don't know if we need to hoover. Maybe I'll hoover downstairs. 

I'll hoover downstairs and then I MUST do everything with Forest School today. 

The term has settled really well. The kids are well settled. I may go in this weekend to just give the classroom a once over. I topped up the leckky today - I think I topped it up three weeks ago, when I first got back, probably after the first weekend. Can't believe it has been exactly a month since I came back. Yes, exactly one month! So mad. 

Thinking of highlights since Wednesday. Peter's payout. And then Friday, well I just collected Ghin and we chatted. There was Ghin's prize last week. And the kids are doing well. I need to do a run down on where the children are now with their progress.

Well, I MUST do finances this weekend. And then at the end of next month I get the October payout. Which is also great. I love what I do, I really do.

But I must do the running and the writing every morning.

Right I will go offline and do some journalling.

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