If you follow me on social media, you might have noticed that I’ve been quieter than usual over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been a bit poorly with lots of seizures, the kids have required back-to-school organising, Mr AL has been a bit peaked and so has my Mama.
I’m scheduling this post in advance on the Saturday before you’ll read it, because as of Monday, Mr AL and I will hopefully have left the kids and the zoo with our brilliant carer and run away together for a whole five nights break. We’ve picked a pub on the coast in Devon which has a HUGE terrace overlooking the sea, my thinking being that we can sit out there for meals even if it’s raining and avoid other people.
We’ve already had one close-contact covid scare with a child on Littlest’s school bus testing positive at the beginning of last week. Littlest has had a proper PCR, which hasn’t yet come back–good news as apparently they prioritise contacting positive cases–and we are all getting negative lateral flow tests daily. No symptoms at all, so big yay! I can only hope the other families are doing the same thing. A school of clinically vulnerable kids is not the place to muck about with this sort of thing. Today is not the day and I am not the person, as they say.
Talking Child has had a rubbish time nearly every single day this past week with identity-based harassment kicking off at breaktimes. We’d really hoped it would be old news this term, but apparently not. School are on it, but it’s like whack-a-mole, the minute one gets the mandatory in-school exclusion another one pops us. TC is coping very well, but it’s really unpleasant to have to deal with on a day to day basis and it’s a big mental health drain.
All in all, here at The Towers we’re a bit flat. I’ve been sticking rigidly to my to-do list in order to try and keep some sort of routine going, because I feel as if once I start to let one or two things slide, the whole lot will go. I’m really hoping that by the time this post is published you’ll have seen some cheery pics on my various social media feeds and I’ll be able to write a brighter post telling you all about the lovely things we got up to while we were away!