Friday Fun!

I had such a good day today. I spent the entire day with my Mum, sister and my little nephew Max. He is so cute and I can't believe how big he is getting. It's insane. He is now 3 months old.

We went to an all you can eat breakfast and I had the best full English ever. I probably could've done with it yesterday morning after my hangover but a day later was still good! I also bought Maxy boy a little Wales top that I insisted he wore today. His Dad didn't appreciate the Wales top and had to buy him an England football kit but I loved here.

Here are some cute little pictures:

I love this little boy. He's so happy!

Tomorrow though, I'm going to have a lie in because I am knackered. I had to have a little nap earlier today. I'm getting too old that my hangovers are no longer last just a day... I'm still feeling.

Also, I fell over today. Fell over the baby gate by catching my foot on the top (I tried not to have to open it and instead lifted my leg over the top but it didn't work) and I went smack down on my hands and knees... It quite hurt. What a fool!

xxx

Cardiff Adventures

This blog is going to be very short and very sweet because I am knackered.  I went to Cardiff yesterday for the night and it was brill. I got there at midday after a 45 minute delay because the coach driver had to stop for petrol on the motorway.. I've never seen that happen before. Charlotte picked me up and we spent the day in Cardiff Bay catching up and swapping stories. Then, as I was staying with Harry, he and his housemate s cooked me dinner. Let me tell you being waited on hand and foot by 3 boys is something that I could get used to.

We started pre drinks and then went off out to a club in Cardiff called Retro. They played S Club 7... Best. Club. Ever!!! We stayed there until 3AM before heading off to a casino. Yes, a real life gambling casino. I didn't bet, however, but I did watch the boys play Blackjack. Then we stayed up til 5AM putting me awake for 24 hours. Hardcore!

Today, we spent the day together reliving  our memories together. I do miss Cardiff so much but I am already planning on  going back to visit in a couple of months. Love them guys.

I am knackered now so I'm off for a shower before I get comfy in my bed for a lovely long night's sleep.

Talk to you all later. Love you all xxxxxx

Wordless Wednesday

Half Term Plans

This is my plan for half term and I'm looking forward to every second of it:

1. Catching up with friends.

I always get so busy when I'm trying to juggle being a full time teacher with the student duties of passing my course and so I neglect my social life choosing to go to sleep instead. I'm always too tired in the evenings to meet up with people and so half terms are the times that I want to catch up with all my friends and chill out doing things with them that make me so happy! I love my friends and love how understanding they are of how busy I am and ultimately how much of a shit friend I can be during placement.

2. Visiting Cardiff.

I have been trying to do this for months and whenever I have the time, something either comes up or I'm just too busy to warrant taking a couple days off doing nothing. I am also such an old lady that I have to weigh up whether I have enough time to recover from a night out before school starts again. I really miss Cardiff and wish multiple times during this course that I was back living there doing my undergrad course. I never realised how easy I had it back then with only doing 9 hours a week. Now, I do 9+ hours EVERY DAY!

3. Hanging out with Max.

I only ever get to see my beautiful nephew on the weekends when my sister brings him round. Bearing in mind that she comes round to my house every other day but she leaves by 4 and I'm never home by then. This half term means that I get to see him a lot more and he's growing so fast that I really don't want to miss a thing. He's too cute.

4. Doing nothing.

This is the part of half term that I love the most. I don't need to get up if I don't want to. I generally do but the beauty of half term is that I don't have to. I can stay in bed all day or lounge on the sofa taking naps or watching crappy TV until my heart is content. I do use these free times to catch up on reading that I never get to do anymore.

People say that teachers have it easy with the amount of time off they have but unless you are a teacher and appreciate how much work is put into teaching, not just at school but what we take home, I don't appreciate your opinion. It's not a job that you go to work to do and come home forgetting about it. It's a 24/7 job and a hard one at that.

I love you all. I hope you have a brilliant week. I know I will!!

xxxx

Bank Holiday Motivational Monday

This Monday is almost over but I'm pretty sure that today most people (if they weren't unfortunately working) didn't need anything to be motivated. The fact all of us got an extra day off means that there is nothing blue about this Monday. Especially with the grey clouds that have dominated the sky today. It's always raining on a bank holiday Monday- it's such a curse.

I thought I could continue with Motivational Monday though to give you all a little bit of preparation for tomorrow. It's only a 4 day week- wahey!

I don't think I ever got round to telling you all that I had my interview last Tuesday and I GOT THE JOB!!!!

After achieving my dream last week of finally securing myself a teaching job, I am more determined than ever to try and encourage people to follow their dreams and look forward to a future where they will be where they need to be!

When I started this journey of my PGCE in September, I had huge reservations about whether I was ready, whether I would be good and whether or not I would fail. It was such a big jump for me and it was so scary to think about all the responsibility that I was putting on my shoulders. I never imagined for me to be looking forward to a job in September the next year.

Unless you believe in your dream and invest in it, it will not land in your lap with a tidy bow on it. Life does not work like that. And even if you do invest everything that you have in your dream, it doesn't mean that it will come true. The combination of hope and determination will get you to where you need to be and believing in the beauty of your dreams and how they can come true is the very start to achieving it.

Have absolute faith in yourself, with not a shadow of a doubt of how brilliant you are. If you don't put yourself first and think yourself as brilliant, someone else will use you to get to their dream leaving you behind.

Follow your dreams and make sure you don't look back in 10 years time with the question of "what if?"

That is all. I hope you have all enjoyed your day off. I have been sat in bed reading and having Max cuddles- the best time ever if you ask me!

xxxx

Summary Sunday

For people in the UK, we are all having a great big relief moment today because tomorrow is a bank holiday, which means NO WORK!

And what has me even happier is that I have a whole week off for half term. I am sooooooo glad. I can't even wait for more lie ins. It's going to feel so good. After so much work these past couple of weeks AND yesterday getting things ready, it's been a very deserved time off.

Let's get straight to what today is all about and step into our figurative time machine and go back one whole year ago! Were you here a year ago? Let me know in the comments if you were and if you weren't, when did you start reading my small time blog? I'm glad to have you all here!!

Also big kudos to myself for finally blogging 6 days out of the 7 this week. Huge achievement for such a lazy blogger!

19th May 2013: How Far?

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-far.html

20th May 2013: Motivational Monday #5

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/motivational-monday-5.html

21st May 2013: Terrifying Tornado

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/terrifying-tornado.html

22nd May 2013: Thorpe Park

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/thorpe-park.html

23rd May 2013: Throwback Thursday

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/throwback-thursday.html

24th May 2013: How To Look Good Naked

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-to-look-good-naked.html

25th May 2013: Almost Missed It!

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/almost-missed-it.html

LOVE YA BABEZZZZZ!

xxx

Baby Shower Fun

After baking cakes until 11:30PM last night and waking up at 6:30AM today to try and get everything ready, I have declared today very successful! 

I baked my cake and decorated it with such delight and pride about how well it came out. I never imagined it to look so good!!

We had lots of fun from BBQing in the pouring down rain to playing baby bingo whilst opening presents to trying different baby food. FYI baby food is rank.

I can't wait to meet the little man in about 10 weeks.

I've had a ball today but I'm absolutely knackered right now. I'm off to pass out.

Love you lotss

xxx

Last Day of Half Term

Today is the last day of term for my school and that means that the children get a day off tomorrow. Unfortunately for me though, I have to go to Uni tomorrow to hand in my assignment and also get two of my other assignments back- I'm not a fan of this sort of things. But I am glad that after Friday I will be on half term for a week off.

I am trying to plan to get down to Cardiff for a couple of days this half term but anything that takes effort feels a little too much like hard work. I will make it though because I do miss my Cardiff friends and since I started this year, I have been meaning to get back there but whenever I have the time, I don't have the time... I'm just too busy but this is the week off that will be a week off because all my plans should be done, and I will have all my assignments handed in- which means that I don't have anything else to do!

Yippeeeeee.

I can't wait. It's going to be glorious.

Are you looking forward to the weekend?

xxx

Wordless Wednesday

Baby Shower Checklist

I have recently been organising my sister's baby shower for next Saturday and I asked my friends and trolled the Internet trying to find checklists that I could use for ideas around what I need to get and have for a baby shower. We are doing a BBQ and so we are hoping that the weather stays lovely.

This is my little checklist that I made for the things that we are doing for the baby shower. If any of you are looking for some ideas, this blog might be just what you are looking for:

1. Banners - both foil and carboard because there are some really cute gendered and neutral decorations out there.
2. Hanging decorations.
3. Balloons- these can be bother with helium and without because if there are kids going to be there, they love being able to play with a balloon without it flying off.
4. Napkins, plates, cups, cultery and tablecloths- this is a must for a buffet style set up. It's also one of the things that most people forget.
5. Confetti for the tables. We got two packs just in case but it does depend on how big your table is and where you want to put it all.
6. A cake- made or bought. I made a trial run one last weekend but will show you a picture of the final one once I make it for this Saturday
7. Games- baby food challenge (3 x main meals and 3 x puddings for guests to try and guess), smell the nappy challenge (place ingredients in a nappy and blindfold guests to guess what the food is), down a bottle in the quickest time, baby bingo (guests write down things they think Mum-to-be will get, as they open, guests tick off if it matches their sheet. First to get bingo, wins), guessing the weight/length/date/time baby will come, guess the amount of sweets in the jar.
8. Letters to write to the baby. On ebay.co.uk, we found this cute idea and I think it is adorable to write a little letter to baby that one day he/she can read back. I'll leave the link in case you want it. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Baby-Shower-Letters-to-Baby-Keepsake-Game-pack-of-10-/111340188161?pt=UK_Baby_Maternity_Pregnancy_MJ&var=&hash=item19ec647201
9. Finger food and drinks
10. And of course, lots of music and fun chats!

That's all I have for now but I'm not finished yet with organising so if I think of any more, I shall let you know. I will also take pictures of her baby shower and do a little blog on either Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully it goes well!

Love to you all!

xxx

Motivational Monday #48

Another week beginning and another motivational Monday. I seriously think that these blogs are my therapy. Whenever I'm feeling something other than excitement or happiness, I always come to splurge my feeling son here. It's like my diary but with people listening when I don't really want to talk to anyone. It's a win win situation.

This week is going to be one of the most emotional, stressful and taxing weeks that I have had in a very long time. Not only will I continue teaching full time, I have an assignment due and two assignments handed back to me. I never do well on assignments and I just want to pass them.

I'm so very scared of this week and it makes me not want to start it. I could have stayed in bed all day today trying to forget that this week is such a big week for me. The feeling of sickness has stayed in my stomach since yesterday evening at just the thought that Monday was coming. And when Monday comes, the week starts and you can't stop it!

I have been absolutely petrified of a lot of experiences I have had in my life and most of them come from being in Uni and stretching myself to the limit. The most scared I've ever been has come from this course- meeting new people and facing my fears of standing up in front of a lot of people and being watched by many people in the process.

Even if you are scared, that doesn't mean you are weak, it means that you have courage. If you slink back from your scared, I would say that is running and being weak. But if you are scared and still hold your head up high to face it, that's courage and you're one of the strongest people out there.

I don't want to face my scared feelings this week but I know that I will. I know that I will walk into my classroom with a confident facade even though the rest of the week is terrifying me. I also know that I will face any experience head on if it comes to me.

I hope you are feeling strong this week no matter what you have planned. Make sure you face your fears and find that inner courage to be scared but saddle up anyway.

I love you all.
Have a brilliant day and leave me a comment below telling me if you're scared of anything this week!
xxxx

Summary Sunday

Wow, the severe lack of blogging this week is quite embarrassing. I think this is the worst week for blogging since I started this whole adventure a year and a half ago. After this week, I think that hopefully I might get a bit better at blogging more regularly. It's just a lot of pressure on me at the moment and I don't think it's going to let up anytime soon either. Thankfully, half term is in a week and it means that I might be able to have a little bit of down time... We shall see. Maybe if I get some work done today, I will write a couple of blogs that I can post throughout the week.

Anyway, for today, in a break from working, I want to take a quick look back at my adventure last year. See what I was doing and how I was feeling.

Here we go:

12th May 2013: A Good Cry

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-good-cry.html

13th May 2013: Motivational Monday #4

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/motivational-monday-4.html

14th May 2013: How to Not Fail at Life

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-to-not-fail-at-life.html

15th May 2013: I Can't Remember

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/i-cant-remember.html

16th May 2013: One Down, One to Go

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/one-down-one-to-go.html

17th May 2013: Cosmetic Surgery

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/cosmetic-surgery.html

18th May 2013: Sunday Bum-Day?

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/sunday-bum-day.html

I'm a little bit of a let down at the moment in all areas of my life. I have not seen my friends for ages and I always never feel like organising things because I get so tired and know I'll be bad company. Life on this course is seriously stressful. I only have 5 weeks of it left to go and it seems insane. With the pressures of needing to get a job, I'm seriously freaking out.

I can't wait for summer now to go on holiday!!

xxx

M.I.A

Oh my, what a week I have been having. It has certainly had its ups and downs and although I am glad that the week is over tomorrow, it's been a good week. Stressful, tiring and emotional but I have had a good time and I now feel like I may actually be getting used to this teaching malarkey.

I have now gone up to 80% of the teaching, and I am teaching 4 out of the 5 days with a whole day of PPA time. It is half a day shy of what normal teachers get and so I am really getting a view into what it takes to be a teacher. I have had such a good week and then I've had such a bad week. I had a bit of a rocky day on Tuesday, when I just gave up with trying to hold it altogether. I think I'm getting sick, and the pressure of everything just got on top of me. Chuck in 33 noisy 10 year olds and you have a tearful Nicole. I rally didn't like it but thankfully my teacher and the support staff were so lovely and made me feel a lot better.

Today I have only just felt like I could have relaxed by the time I've gotten home because I know that tomorrow is Friday and although Friday is still another day, it marks the start of the weekend and therefore you don't need to worry too much about everything being perfect. I have so many evaluations to write up and I think that I will definitely be caught up with deign all of them on the weekend, which I'll hate myself for but I just can't be bothered today!

I think that I'll get a couple done today and then I'll retire to chilling.

I think I'm getting ill.

I'm going round my teacher's house tomorrow to plan and we're going to order takeaway and just bash out all the planning for my last 3 weeks at school after the half term. It's all going so quickly. After this week, I have one week until half term, and then after half term, I only have 3 weeks left at school and then a week at uni and I'M DONE!

Good news alert: I have an interview. I'm not going to tell you when and if I never mention it again, it means that I didn't get the job. I'm nervous and feel like I might potentially jinx myself for saying that I have one but I don't mind. Life is going to decide how well it goes and there will be a good reason if it doesn't go well. I just have to wait and see.

This blogging regularly gig is definitely difficult to keep up now that I've got more responsibility. There is always just too much to do and too little time in which to do it in!

Never mind. This is a blog of catch up, moaning and explanation. 

I love you all. As always

I miss you guys!

xxx

Motivational Monday #47

I always need to remind myself this.

For me, the dearest thing about a Monday is getting back into the daily grind of teaching. By the end of the week, I end up feeling a lot more comfortable in the role of class teacher and I feel like I'm finally understanding how to teach and learning each and every day. But after the weekend, I always start to feel a little nervous and unsure of myself as if I have lost the ability over the two days that I have had off. I don't know what it is and whether it's just me being a little insecure but it does annoy me.

It's like I have to gear myself up to go in and tell myself that I can do it. I can be awesome. 

Is that what it is like with you and your job? It depends on how new you are to something to whether or not you still feel nervous.

I do want to wish my friend Chloe a very good luck on her first exam of her second year at University. I know she'll be awesome so I'm sending her this message to remember to be awesome :)

Have a brilliant AWESOME Monday! 

I love you all,

Nicole

xxxxxxxx

Summary Sunday

I was working until 11:30PM last night on my university work... It was not very fun and when I got into bed, my whole body felt as if it had been through a work-out. And I still didn't feel like I had done enough... Never mind, eh?!

It's now Sunday and I got to sleep in until 10AM... It was magnificent, glorious and simply wonderful. I wish I could do it more often. But life calls and duty takes precedence.

So before I get back to my work and get going for the day, I thought I'd write a quick blog looking back on what I was doing this week exactly a year ago. This reminiscing is very therapeutic and I really do love it.

5th May 2013: BBQ Season

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/bbq-season.html

6th May 2013: Motivational Monday #3

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/motivational-monday-3.html

7th May 2013: Spring Has Arrived

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/spring-has-arrived.html

8th May 2013: Wednesday 8th May

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/wednesday-8th-may.html

9th May 2013: I Love Eating Out

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/i-love-eating-out.html

10th May 2013: A Long Time Coming

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-long-time-coming.html

11th May 2013: Dog Update

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/dog-update.html

And that is what I wanted to blog about a whole year ago. I'm sure whether my blogs then were a lot more exciting than my blogs now, but they are different and that can be good or bad...

I also had a brilliant idea for a blog last night before I went to sleep but silly ol' me forgot to write it down and so now I've completely forgot what the hell it was. I don't even have an idea about what the subject was. This makes me sad...

Have a wonderful Sunday. Can you believe it's already 11th May? I know I always say it but time is speeding by so quickly.

I don't like it!

But I do like you guys.

xxxx

Lazy Saturday

Yesterday, I was so tired and a little too busy to make a blog so I shall do a quick Friday and Saturday round up of my life...

Friday, I taught and then was knackered. I think because it was so windy, the children were just a little crazy and therefore were so unsettled to work. I did manage to enjoy my week and although it was stressful with observations and increased responsibility, it was a good week. Then I got home and little Maximus was round so I could have cuddles with him!! He was a little whiney but it helps me to hone in on the skills of settling a little baby. It worked quite well and I had such lovely cuddles with the beautiful boy. I love him!

Then I went to my friends house for pizza, cider and a little shop talk about teaching and paperwork etc. I have been avoiding friends recently because I've been a little unsettled in the way I feel and how I'm thinking about life. I kind of isolate myself when I'm feeling down and so being able to spend the evening with them was like drinking water after a long hot day without it. It was so refreshing and made me realise how much I really do love them and need them around me.

So, I had a lie in today to catch up on sleep and ended up starting a bad day for paper. I did nothing for the whole day and instead played The Sims 3. My friend Hollie keeps playing it and posting pictures that makes me want to play it. At the most inappropriate times. That girl!! Anyway, I enjoyed it very much and felt like it was worth the time, just to be able to get my mind off all the pressure and have fun!

And now, I'm sat watching Eurovision with a cheeky cider feeling guilty about having done no work and therefore trying to get a bit done whilst I'm relaxing... I'm so bad!

What's your Saturday night looking like?

Let me know! I'd love to hear from you all

I love you all

Nicole

xxx

The Other Woman Film Review

The other night, I went to see the film The Other Woman with my friends. It was a well needed night out because I was definitely feeling the pressure, stress and sadness creeping up on me and needed the time out to have a giggle and remind myself that life isn't that bad! And boy, did this film help me to become happy. It was absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best films I have seen in a while. I generally find most things funny and laugh about it for a while but this film took laughter to a whole new level! 

It started with Cameron Diaz and her seemingly lovely life- I love Cameron and think she is naturally hilarious. She is everything that I would love to be as  woman: gorgeous, funny, beautiful body and so talented. She is literally a natural actress and a beautiful woman. So, with her in it, I knew that it would be pretty good. I thought when I first went to go see it that it would be an average chick flick that would be an alright film but wouldn't really be that memorable. But I was totally wrong. It was tear inducing funny.

The three actresses worked together so well that it was a match made in heaven; especially Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann. The things they did together and the way the relationship developed was absolutely perfect. You went from sort of picking sides to loving them both and wanting them to get their own back. So as you know, the film is about a married woman, and two mistresses. The man is dating numerous women whilst being married to his wife. None of them know.... Until a fateful day. And then all hell breaks loose and the only thing that is being dished out like mini pizzas at a party is revenge.

The ending is obviously predictable but it's the ending that you look forward to- it's the whole build up and the journey that you go on as characters that makes it absolutely brilliant. I almost wet myself laughing and cried the whole way through out of laughing too much. 

It definitely is a good pick me up film to go and see and I highly recommend. I think it's absolutely wonderful and I would actually pay to go see it again because it was so funny. The humour is not only in the jokes but also in the physical  situations the characters get into with their bodies. And the funniest of all was the bathroom scenes that I literally could NOT hold it together over. I'm a little childish when it comes to toilet humour anyway but this was something else completely.

If you think you've exhausted all chick flick humour and brilliancy, you have thought wrong because this is something else and more people need to rave about it because if you haven't guessed already I love it!

It's a cringe-worthy, hilarious little ball of perfection. Good old chick flicks!

xxx

Observation Day

Today is my second observation of my final placement. Last week, I had my very first official observation but this was less scary because this was done by my teacher and therefore because I have been with her for weeks, it was less nerve-wracking. Unfortunately, this observation is being done by my tutor that is coming from the university.... This is also a man that I have only ever met once before.

I'm scared.

I'm less scared about what I need to teach because I'm pretty au fait on algebra, but I am nervous about behaviour management and making sure that 30 10-year-olds are focused on what I'm saying and not on talking to one another.

I'm sure it'll be fine, or if it's not- it'll be a great way for me to learn and develop as a teacher. But I will probably be really sad if I don't do very well!

WISH ME LUCK!

xxx

Teacher Appreciation Day

Today is the official National Teacher's Day and as a student teacher that is almost a fully qualified teacher, I'm taking this day as my own!

As a child, you may have ended up hating your teacher because she/he made you do difficult things that you didn't want to do. BUT as an adult, I hope that looking back, you can understand that you were misguided as a child and in fact your teacher moved mountains to try and help you achieve. Despite what children give teachers in terms of their behaviour and what they say (I've been told by a child that they hate me), we continue our job without any personal offence taken.

It's true to say that teachers are a vital part of a child's life and the running of society. They not only give children the subject knowledge, but they also mould them into respectful human beings

Thank a teacher! 

xxx

Inspiration To Be Happy

Being happy is something that is a big struggle in life. Happiness doesn't come to us all the time nor does it come at the time when we need it the most. It's not a secret to everyone that at this moment in time, I'm struggling to find happiness. And not the happiness that you fake when you're around people, nor the happiness that you fake when other's are down to put them first. I truly want to find happiness in life like I have known it before.

Life for me, at present, isn't easy. There are many 21 year olds that do not have to do the things I do and I feel jealous of those people. I envy those with happier lives than me and those with simpler lives. Those that only need to worry about what they're going to wear for a night out rather than worrying about whether plans can be made to go out, or whether people in the house are happy after a tough day. 

I can sum myself up in a couple of words but the three that stick out for me are student teacher, carer and counselor. Therefore, I need these inspiration quotes more than I need to be written this blog to you. I just want to be happy.

Life is hard. What is considered hard is relative- I know that my life is not hard compared to some people, but I also know that my life is harder than other people.

I need to find a way to be happy without pushing my emotions aside.

Any ideas and tips to being happy, please let me know before I go under!

I love you all,

xxxxx

BE HAPPY!

Summary Sunday

My USB broke today. I cried.

I've been trying to apply to a job but I don't know what to write for my covering letter AND I'm scared. What if I'm not good enough!

Let's round up the week by taking a quick, sneaky look back to last year!

28th April 2013: Find That One Thing

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/04/find-that-one-thing.html

29th April 2013: Motivational Monday #2

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/04/motivational-monday-2.html

30th April 2013: Crazy Weird Dreams

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/04/crazy-weird-dreams.html

1st May 2013: Hello May

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/05/hello-may.html

2nd May 2013: Tips on How to Start Your Own Blog

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/05/tips-on-how-to-start-your-own-blog.html

3rd May 2013: Home Sweet Home

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/05/home-sweet-home.html

4th May 2013: Sally Hansen Review

http://nicolespearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/05/sally-hansen-review.html

And now after the day I've had, I'm going to eat Maltesers and drink tea.

Goodnight my lovies,

xxx

Hello May

You'll have to thank Tom for you getting this blog today because I completely forgot about it. Not that I forgot it was the first of May but I've been sat at home lesson planning and evaluating since 4PM non-stop and I completely forgot about needing to blog... Oops. Major blogging fail, eh?!

So, this is how my May is looking- it is going to be filled with a lot of stress, teaching and probably a fair bit of crying... That's just the way I think it has to be!

♥ 5th May - Bank Holiday Monday couldn't have come at a better time! It's always nice to only have a 4 day week because it means that there is less of the week to be tired over. It's a tiring job being a student and a teacher and I can only imagine that it will only get worse when I get a full time job so being able to have a 4 day week is fab!

Unfortunately for me, I will be spending this day by planning with my teacher because we want to bash out a good couple of weeks planning so we're prepared for everything that may be flung our way!

♥ 7th May - It's my first official observation from my University Tutor- I've had an observation from my teacher but my tutor feels scary!

♥ 22nd May - My teacher is observing me on this day...

♥ 23rd May - It's my final deadline to hand in my final ever assignment. Yeeey! I also get a couple of my old assignments back! Noooo. But it is the last day before half term. Yeeey!

So it's not all bad

I'm also trying to plan to go to Cardiff to visit Harry on this date or on the weekend- but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to make it. I hope so!

♥ 26th May - HALF TERM!

And that's it.

That's my month.

I realise how pretty dull and boring it is :(

What does your May look like? I hope it is better than mine to be frank!

Love you all

xxx