The main problem with a late Easter, is that is makes the spring term so long (for teachers and for students). The Autumn term seems to go on forever, but the spring term doesn’t usually feel as bad, but here I am, typing away while watching the clock count down to hometime. As we are close to three counties, some schools broke up last week, we break up today, and some other schools break up next Thursday or Friday.

Ahead of us are two weeks of lazier mornings, days out, baking, camera shopping (ARGH!!), me juggling work and him enjoying the lack of school but also stressing at the lack of routine. I’ve tried to stop this before it starts by asking him what he wants to do, but I bet if you asked any teen, not just s skware peg, the answer would be ‘I don’t know’. Same to who do you want to see, is there anywhere you’d really like to go, and do you want to go anywhere for breakfast/lunch/dinner on any of the days?

I do have things planned – we will have day trips to local cities, we are going to meet up with friends, we are going to go camera shopping (savings being used as he wants one of his own for GCSE Art), and we are going to have duvet days watching trash TV with the dog sitting with us. We are also going to go on bike rides, go swimming and get outside as much as possible. We ought to spend some time revising for the school tests that are a week or two into the new term, but we probably won’t do much of that at all!

The most important thing we are going to do is listen to our bodies and our minds. If we end up having more duvet days than bike rides, that’s fine. If the junk food outweighs the healthy options next week, who cares? During the next 2.5 weeks (back on Easter Tuesday) we are going to practice the pause, we are going to breathe, we are going to take it easy, and, I hope, we are going to smile!