Hello all :) Just checking in, not much to say. Totally exhausted after management meeting after school on Monday, leading a trip to the New Forest with 60 kids on Tuesday, Maths parents evening on Wednesday and planning meeting till 6:30 tonight, during which I think I might have eaten my own steadily increasing body weight in cake and chocolate :(. Oh, and we currently have a mock OfSTED monitoring inspection going on. Trying to give a fuck about that, but failing utterly. 
I finally had contact from my midwife - first proper midwife appointment is 2 weeks today and she's going to book my scan. Here's the problem though - we're seeing my family on 8th April, so we want to tell them then, in person, but I want to have had the 12-week scan so we are sure everything is OK (I know it is no guarantee that everything will continue to be OK, but can't imagine the horribleness of telling family, only to have scan afterwards and discover a MMC). So we're thinking we might have to book a private scan if we haven't heard by a week before we see my family (or if we have our scan date and it's after we visit them). I am firmly in the "don't believe in private healthcare" camp too, but it's the only time we're going to be seeing my family in the next few weeks and it makes sense to tell them then, so it also makes sense to be sure before we do. Ah, decisions decisions.
I saw some actual road rage this morning - a cyclist with his arm inside the driver's window of a van, trying to punch the driver. Scary. And today I sounded so pregnant. "What's the word for when you both have different opinions and you're arguing?"...and "Ooh, for that art topic, we could do the thing with the thing, you know, when they use things to look like other things." and "there's that person, you know, that explorer, who went to Africa, or maybe the Amazon, and got attacked by animals, or maybe savages, and died. Or something." If my team haven't guessed by now, they're asleep.
So yeah. That's me with not much to say 
. Hope everyone is good, sympathy bettybat for the chucking up, sounds like a bug to me, lots of those around at the moment. Hope you feel better today. Sympathy fjordmor for the mother situation, I don't have much time for mine at the moment either as a result of various things that happened last year. Sympathy GonnaNeed... for the coldsore from hell - I have spots from hell, they're like mini bloody volcanoes under my skin, and they won't go away, the same ones keep popping back up again 
. And sarahpip I'm far too terrified to weigh myself. Just by looking in the mirror at my profile, I've put on at least 100 lbs. I told the midwife today I am a size 12. I think that's no longer true [sobbing uncontrollably emoticon]. Angelico, glad you got good news at scan, I bet that was a relief. everybody else, 1 more day till the weekend!
36 (although feel more like 56 this week), 9 + 4, DC1