meeting my new classes
I met the first of my new classes today and it was weirdly terrifying. All those feelings that I’m not good enough and that they’ll see straight
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I met the first of my new classes today and it was weirdly terrifying. All those feelings that I’m not good enough and that they’ll see straight
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Read More...It’s A Level results day here in the UK, so students who are waiting to go off to University found out whether they would be going to their
Read More...I went up to Yorkshire last week with the intention of doing a cross country run/walk. I only made it a third of the way before my feet
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Read More...I am watching Break Point on Netflix and it follows some of the best up and coming players on the pro tour over the last two years. Today I was
Read More...The time has passed like a crimson ribbon
Running through the air in waves,
Ups and downs of blood and tears and laughs
And at the end of all these twisting roads
We find ourselves with scissors in our hands,
Standing, ready – to cut and hack the cord.
Our adult child is done with us, they drift
Out into a world we hope they know,
We’ve helped them understand.
My son turns eighteen on Sunday, and I know that it’s not true, but it feels like as of Sunday I won’t be a mum anymore. I know that you’re always a mum once you have conceived, whether they are born or not and whether they make it to adulthood or not. That all seems to be beside the point.
However, there is the definite ending of one chapter and the beginning of another at this point. Even though he is taking a year out and not going to university until next September, it still feels like a part of him is going somewhere.
I guess I have to go through a little midlife crisis now as every mother has to go a bit nuts when the little ones fly the nest. I think I need to shave my head, pierce my nose and then go backpacking around Thailand.
That should sort it.
Much Love
Rachel xx