Optimism

When you start to count your blessings the universe conspires to make you smile. Today I was sat on my doorstep getting a burst of vitamin D when a big yellow bus filled with rails of clothes stopped at the end of my street. It caught my eye because 1 it was sunshine yellow, 2 it had lots of colourful shirts hanging in the window, and 3 it had a big sign 'Everything 5p'! So I got my sandals on grabbed my bag and hopped over the road to go see about some bargains, the smiley man was picking up supplies but let me have a quick look. I got some lovely children's clothes, a hello kitty top for Izzy, a funky waistcoat for Joseph, a stripy next jumper for baby Ruby a beautiful pick woollen stripy outfit for an unborn baby girl (there is bound to be at least one in the running) and a t shirt for me all for the grand total of 25p!

I spent 4 hours on an application for Walbottle Village Primary its a permanent position so I made sure I fit all the criteria in the person specification. On my jaunt into town I got an unexpected text message from a potential new friend, I met through looking after the boys, I met her last week and got a really great feeling from her and we are meeting with the boys on Tuesday.

At the library I multi tasked with my proof reading and printing of my letter of application as my random i tunes were too good to resist and a lovely old(ish) guy insisted on paying for my printing.

I came home to glorious sunshine in the yard so sat out with adorable Crunchie cat and a perfect cup of tea, Emma came home and we danced are way through tidying the living room.

Sometimes it feels like its a real challenge to get a teaching job but by counting all my blessings, my optimism tells everything is going to fall into place just fine.

I had a lovely afternoon playing games with Morgan, 6 yesterday, when I lost a game he shook my hand and said 'well done for a really good try, everyone wants to be good at things straight away but they aren't, you just have to keep trying and practice. You never know next time you might just win.' :) Its a lesson I've been taught lots of times but it sounded so perfect and reasoned coming from him and was just what I needed to hear.