Big Changes

It has been an emotional week or so starting with Charlie having his settling in days at his nursery last week. There were tears when I left him for the first time, with Charlie not even giving me a backwards glance. An hour later and I was back and he had had a wonderful time. The following day he already had his name in the accident book having crawled into a chair. He seems to have settled well so far and is by far the most vocal and adventurous member of the snowdrops room.

Sunday we had a lovely day out for Mothers Day. The sun was shining, the sea looked amazing and we walked down to a beach bistro where we stopped for lunch. Charlie managed to devour a banana and strawberry smoothie taking a particular liking to the straw and had us in hysterics trying to suck up the liquid. Back home we relaxed reading the paper and I started to watch 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' starring Maggie Smith. It is a fabulous film, full of classic lines, a wonderful film.

Then today I returned to work. Having had 13 long and lovely months off, it was time to get back to reality and life in the NHS. It was a day of mixed feelings, I left Charlie at home with Mike having his 'Dad Day' but strangely it was Ruby who was on my mind. Feelings of letting go and memories of returning to work before were surprisingly overwhelming. The day passed ploughing through the ridiculous amount of emails that were sat in my inbox and booking various meetings and then suddenly I found myself whizzing back down the M2 on my way home to see my boys. Its going to be a weird few weeks and will take a bit of time to adjust but we know Charlie will flourish in the nursery and I will eventually clear my emails.