It’s been a looooooooong time since I wrote one of these, in fact I just checked and my last post was from just before I started my PGCE.  I suppose it’s a testament to how all-encompassing the role of a teacher is to their life that I’ve been extremely, exclusively silent on the writing front for half a decade.  

As anyone may expect, a lot can change in six years, so here are some of my biggest, most important few:

1.  I have been a fully qualified, real, proper teacher (and therefore adult) for the last five years of my life.  

2.  I bought a house!  If I’d have been writing at that point, it would have been very angsty, angry and full of frustration.  I never expected something that seemed so simple to take so long; involve so many agencies and have so many setbacks, alas, not everything in life is simple.  Sitting here, writing this from the comfort of my own home makes it all worthwhile.

3.  We bought our own little baby Cavapoo, Woody.  He’s a little dream and it feels like he’s always been part of my life. 

1. I got married!  I’m still not fully used to my new surname and occasionally call my husband my boyfriend, but I love it.  
2. In August this year, we’re going to be welcoming our very own baby girl human!  This is the main reason I’ve decided to start writing again, to document everything that I’m going through so that I can look back on it in years to come.  So far, so exciting!

I promise I’ll write again soon!

H x