Week 8 - 15/10/22

Hi everyone and thank you for taking the time to read my blog.

I hope you have had a good week. I am tired, so very tired! Another week of this term before a well-needed two weeks half term break. This week has been busy. I had my first online Open University tutorial for my current module. It was an excellent session and I am now equipped with lots of ideas to apply to my first assignment which is a question based on an extract from Shakespeare's "Othello". I am anxious about my first grade as I have heard whispers of very harsh marking for this module, but I have my fingers crossed for a good score.

It was my daughter's 9th birthday this week and she had such a lovely day. She had a little party tea after school with some of her special friends and there was lots of giggling, pizza and cake! I do find that my children's special days like birthdays, Christmas and other "life moments", such as first days at school, leave me with a tinge of sadness as their father is not here. This week's poem is one that I wrote when I was feeling particularly sad after my youngest son's first day at secondary school. It's a very simple poem (as many of mine are!) but it conveys that long-term feeling of sadness that is always there. Have a read and let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Have a good week

Kathy

I miss you

I miss you.

I miss your kind eyes.

Your thoughtfulness and compassion.

I miss seeing you

with our children,

being part of all the special days and life moments.

As time passes

I miss you the same.

A burning hurt inside, a scar still raw.

Some days you are in my every thought.

Others give me a reprieve.

But you’re there, in my heart.

I miss you

and

I always will.