Re: What's everyone up to lately?

Last year I worked part time...3 days a week for the first time in 20 yrs. This yr I'm back full time as a classroom teacher and although I have only 19 kids and they are lovely and I'm so enjoying being back on class doing fun things with the kids, I am finding the workload to be unbearable. Being a disadvantaged school, we have alot of special programmes and initiatives which put alot more work onto us regular teachers. The job alone is more than enough to take up most of our school and home time but with this other stuff, which I don't think really helps at all, I am totally exhausted and have been working 18 hour days, 7 days a week and school only started back a week and a half ago. I"m currently updating my details to put a transfer in to a school that doesn't have all this extra stuff to deal with. I've put alot of time and effort into the job over the yrs and now I've decided that I deserve a life of my own. I had that last yr and i"m so pleased that I had that part time yr to really be a decent mother and wife and also enjoy myself as well. So.....here's to the new year....that I survive it and here's hoping my transfer will be approved and I can move on to greener pastures and a more fullfilling  and healthy life.