MotherSoup

Not much posting going on - and not much lurking and commenting on other people’s blogs either - despite the best of intentions.

We’ve had a good few days which have been ‘non-routine’ as the Beloved Spouse has been undergoing and recovering from a standard medical procedure which shouldn’t have any long-term concerns attached to it (well that’s easy for me to say, I’m not the patient ;-P). But it’s been enough to require a couple of days off work convalescing and a couple of days of me doing much more of all-that-there-is-to-be-done around the house.

So - no room for extra activities like blogging. And lots of other things have been cancelled, postponed or half done. But schooling goes on. It’s a juggernaut which we cannot halt, it’s just something that we have to go along with. Offspring must get to school, one way or another, and hopefully cleaned, fed, brushed, uniformed, provisioned and correctly equipped.

Now I know families where school is treated as rather more… optional, and is the first thing to disappear from the timetable if household life is getting to chaotic. I don’t feel I could treat it like that. I can anticipate situations - real family crises - which might require absences, but otherwise it’s one fixed point in our lives. You can’t book annual leave from school. No duvet days in the world of education.

Just hope the teachers will look tolerantly on this weekend’s homework, which surely can’t show the usual levels of concentration. Sorry - ‘Could Do Better’ - really doesn’t apply this time.

 Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible….