Take 2!

So today my son has been at school for two weeks and I have been on long service leave for the same time. I don't go back to work until the first Monday in march. I'm hoping our son has settled into a routine and is not so exhausted by then. He is loving school though which is good.

In the weeks leading up to my leave I had written myself a very long list of things to do. And for some reason I had decided that I needed to do everything in this month.

Why? Who knows. I'm going to put it down to exhaustion, and probably, a degree of burn out from work. Whatever it was for some reason I seemed to think that I only had this month to get everything done.

I seem to have completely missed the fact that school goes all year. (And so on for several years). And of course the inevitable happened.

By the time I went on leave I had a chest infection requiring antibiotics and steroids (the joys of asthma). So I pretty much did nothing for the first week and a half. Then slowly started to get more with it. That was about when I realised that I had all year to do some of these things and could just take my time to work through things.

I am still trying to do too much though. I get more and more accident prone the more tired I am. My husband jokes that people will think that he's bashing me up with all the bruises. Sadly enough when I say I walked into the wall I mean it literally. (I do it at work too, much to their amusement.)

Last night I put my son to bed and then sat down to watch some tv, I woke up at the end of it. So I went to bed and slept for about 10 hours. I feel so much more with it today.

And I was so much more productive. So now I'm on "Take 2", so to speak. I'm going to write myself a new to do list and start over. Without the panic this time.

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