To ask for a kick/some inspiration today

[Stillpinching]

Have a bad case of last day of the holidays blues here and need to snap out of it or I can see me wasting the day.

As a teacher I know I'm lucky to have had the two weeks off but why do I always feel I waste them and now it's too late?
I have work to do for tomorrow (have worked a fair bit especially this last week but not prepped for tomorrow yet) which will result in kids on screens which will make me feel guilty.

Or I could decide to do that laterv which will make me feel stressy later which will make me feel guilty, and I will have a nagging sense of, yes , guilt all day about the work that I should be doing. Tonight it won't all get done which won't be a disaster but will make me feel guilty and stressed tomorrow. I'm also trying to save money after an expensive two weeks so don't want a big outing.

We could use the garden but it's a fucking jungle that makes me feel anxious whenever I look at it. The trampoline is broken as is the lawnmower. I've ordered a mower but it won't come till next weekend. Such s waste as mix of house and garden would be great.

Kids have been at their dad's the last few days which means screen city so I don't want today to be the same....

Yes, I know I could be getting on now but feeling a bit lost though a bit better having written it all down.

What are others doing- inspire me!

Do some of your work this morning, take a long break at lunch and bring the kids out for a walk or to the park, then finish off your work in the afternoon. You won't have as much to finish and you won't feel so guilty about the kids

Urgh, no suggestions I’m afraid, OP, but also a teacher here. DH has just asked me, “What are we doing today? Weather’s lovely again.”

“Working, DH. All day.”

He’s off for a walk by himself, then visiting his mother. And I know it’s pathetic to feel bad about it, because some couples also get hardly any time off together, but it would be nice if my work “holidays” were actually time off, not just time to work with no students present.

Can’t wait until I go supply next year so I get my evenings and weekends back again.

Teacher here, although am not whole class based so my 'work' is school related but not lesson planning. Also doing an MA in non related subject and need to proof read my essay. I did spend a few hours last week working on school work but need to go through some things today. SO:

• now off to gym.

-come home, get a few bits done around the house at lunch time -work in the garden in the afternoon.

I've had quite a good two weeks off but had a rotten cold for the first week as I was so run down after the end of term. Teaching is bloody exhausting and even though I love it, I am looking for other avenues having been in it for close to 15 years.

Also, OP, if it gives you a bit of a laugh, not only do I have to go back to work tomorrow, and teach all day, I also have to do it in a very elaborate Elizabethan costume all day long

I know exactly what you mean about feeling you’ve wasted the holidays. Teachers seem to put everything off from term time to do in the holidays: visiting friends/family, quality family time, hair dressers, dentist, etc. All the stuff there isn’t really time for during term time. And then the holiday arrives and your body just needs a rest for the first week. Then there’s all the school work to complete, and before you know it the holiday is over and you’ve not done any of the things you expected of yourself.

Taking time to slob about and let your body recover from a hard term of work is not a waste of your time.

Today, I’d give myself a set amount of time for school prep. Say 90mins. In that time you can cobble some lesson plans for tomorrow. Then I’d get a picnic together and take the kids to the park. It’s a gorgeous day.