13 years and counting

Today is our anniversary of the first time we were together and it has been a lovely day with a reflective lunch at our favourite cafe, we have been retrospective and loving towards each other all day. Mr Grump has grown into a man that is loving, loyal, intelligent, strong and sensitive - a perfect foil for my erratic "do everything at once-ness' he has had his lesson to learn particularly regarding his father and the emotional baggage that mental illness in a parent brings.
He can give me the shits at times, but it is a passing fancy and overall we are pretty into each other and he is my best friend.

I have been on Practicum for the past 5 weeks and what it has shown is how far I have come and that I don't want to go back to Uni for another year of B.S. I was teaching from Day 1 at the small school (only 15 kids) and I have had some very interesting characters to teach - a diabetic with undiagnosed learning difficulties (possibly Aspergers) 2 ADHD kids, one child whose parent was murdered by the other parent (pretty well adjust all things considered). I have seen the progression from I need to learn more on Prac to what I need to learn is from actually teaching.

On other news, I'm going to be a Aunty and a sister in law- ye gods! It has been an eventful year with the loss of furry kids, Miss K and Mr L being engaged and parents in a few months to Radburne heading in a new direction, to starting the drugs again and getting my whole cycle started again - (its working - just need to practice a bit more).

I would have liked to be the first one to have the babies for the family but life is not that straightforward for us but having Miss K and Mr L having the first grandchild it is good and takes off the pressure I have placed myself under - I don't if was an obligatory sense of family loyalty or the maternal urge I have had since I met Mr Grump.

Anyway, we have finished Christmas shopping this weekend (we went hard and we went fast!) and now the tree is up and the lights will be going up after I post this. This week is a doddle at school - events, not real teaching...