OMG! OMG! OMG!

School has finally started! It's, like, totally awesome...seriously! As much as I love my spawn, I love them to be in school! Actually, it has only started for Bronwyn...River still has to wait for a couple of weeks. He is doing "gradual" entry to kindergarten...loosely defined as "not-very-gradual" entry at all. I am trying not to worry about River being in kindergarten. I think he will really enjoy it. It wasn't quite the back-to-school experience Bronwyn was hoping for; put in a kind of holding class where she knows no-one while school sort out their numbers and decide who is going where. Hopefully, she will be in her new class next week and can then start to make some friends. The aura of fear and excitement that surrounds the kids during the first days of the school year is almost palpable. Combined with the smell of cleaning fluid and wax crayons, it gives me vivid flashbacks of my own experiences, about 100 years ago.

Now it is time for me to begin thinking about going back to work. The type of work that you get paid to do. I'd like to get back into teaching, but I don't know how feasible that is going to be. I will need to do some research. If not teaching then I will have to think of something else.

Boring blog updates lately. Now I don't have children disrupting me every minute I may be able to write something down! We are enjoying some very good weather right now...so we're still out and about with friends and having fun. Fall will likely see us begin to hibernate. I am already looking for a knitting project.

Small matters...

Busy week...how many of my posts begin with those two words? I mentioned some time ago that I had put in an idea to the local community centre about teaching a kindergarten enrichment program. Well, I don't know if I mentioned that it didn't work out. I wasn't too disappointed because with River and his endless appointments (could be a catchy title for a story: "River and the Endless Appointments"), I wasn't sure where I would find the time. Anyway, enrollment was low and I ditched the idea. Plan B was to teach an early math and early reading course for preschool/kindergarten children. Only two hours a week but I have been super anxious. There's only a few kids registered right now, but still I have been up at night feeling anxiety gnawing on my insides. Then I have felt wimpy and stupid for feeling that way. Really wimpy. I mean, I have taught lots of different kids in many different places, what was there to worry about? But I have been worried. It's been over 4 years since I taught anything in a professional capacity. I didn't know what ages the kids would be (anywhere between 4 and 6) so it was hard to know what to plan. But plan I did and today was my first day. My planning was a bit rusty and I need to adapt it for younger kids (most of them are only 4), but I changed it on the fly, so that was okay. The centre have given me a lovely room that is ideal for my needs. And the kids were great. I don't know why I worried so much. But I felt relaxed as soon as the first child showed up. It was great...and the bonus is that I get paid to do it! If only I could do a couple of hours every day. The best thing is that the kids were engaged and had fun. None of them wanted to leave! Happy me.

Now I hope I can get a bit of sleep. At least one of my myriad anxieties has been resolved somewhat.