Work, Uni, family...

It's all on my mind!

I've managed to sort out a change of working times for when I return from maternity leave, so instead of working every weekend, I will now work Mon-Fri evenings (5-9). It works out much better because Mark wouldn't be able to look after both children for long periods of time due to his depression, and even I find it difficult so there's no way he would cope. Seth is still very demanding of our time, what with being so young, and Marena is somewhere on the Autism Spectrum so it can be difficult to deal with when she's having an episode whilst Seth is crying for something, so it's best that Mark isn't left for long on his own, and as the kids are in bed by 7ish, he only has two hours before he gets peace and quiet.

Marena's teacher is trying to sort out a visit from the educational psychologist to get a diagnosis so that they can get help in the classroom for Marena, but she knows it's autism due to the behaviours that Marena exhibits. It's very frustrating waiting for an 'official' declaration of Marena's issues, but there are loads of people out there with autism who haven't been diagnosed with it, so what's a girl to do? Only problem is that the (add expletives here) Conservatives have cut funding, by the time Marena is diagnosed, there may not be any help for her.


My current course is going OK, and I start another course on 12th Feb. I've had the results from the last course I did which ended in Oct '10, I got 99 on my examinable score, and 98 on my overall score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I won't get that high a score from this course because with my previous TMA I came down with the 'flu the weekend before it was due so I couldn't do the Mathcad work which was the only thing I had left to do, thus I ended up getting 90 which is my lowest score on any of my TMA's (I could've got 97 if the Mathcad had been done and got full marks). I know there's a lot of people out there who would be very happy with a 90, and it is a fantastic score, but my scores have been 97 and above so it was a bit disappointing, I need to get used to it though as I'm only doing level 1 courses at the moment, my next one is the first of the level 2's and I can't expect to get extremely high marks as it gets more complex can I?


So...even though my life is a little 'busy' at the moment i joined Slimming World last Thursday morning. I was going to rejoin WeightWatchers when Seth reached 6 months old (I had to stop when I was pregnant) but was extremely disappointed to see they only have the points plan now, and in all honesty, when I get to my goal weight I can't imagine counting points for the rest of my life! So I went along to a Slimming World meeting instead, and I'm extremely happy with it, minimal counting and measuring, just eating lots of healthy food and it's much more realistic in a long-term view as I won't have to write everything down.


Anyway, that's enough for now, I must get on with the day!

SJB x