Welcome along

Hmmm. Apparently I am unsatisfied with the amount of things currently keeping my brain active from 6am - 10pm and have decided to embark upon a new adventure, blogging. As to how often I will blog (is that a verb?) I guess we'll have to see, but for anyone who is actually reading and is vaguely interested in my general ramblings I'm hoping you'll 'get me' through the medium of text.

So what makes me worthy of such ramblings? Well, I'm a wife and mummy of 2 gorgeous boys. That's life number one. Life number two is being a primary school teacher, my vocation. You'll get to realise fairly quickly that teacher is not what I do. It's what I am. Somehow for the past 5 years I have managed to balance these two lives rather well without any obvious negative side effects. Being a parent makes me a better teacher and to some extent being a teacher makes me a better parent. Occasionally I look down on myself from a vantage point far away and wonder how I can do what I do. I know I am fairly good at both my jobs. I also think I may have superpowers and one day the Kryptonite will come too close and it might just fall apart. But for now I am more than just muddling through.

So here begins the double-life diary. Full of anecdotes, thoughts, jabberings and generally me stuff. I was going to start with my first school topic - SATs Rant - but I think I'd better finish marking my last 5 maths sheets and head off to bed. The rants can wait. I'm sure there'll be plenty!