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After four years’ teaching, we started our family. Jonathan arrived in 1981 followed by Abigail in 1984 and so began the next stage of my life with everything revolving around our two wonderful children. I thoroughly enjoyed being a stay-at-home mum and with it, all the mother and baby/toddler activities and duties. To me, motherhood was “teaching”, but on a much smaller scale to a much younger audience! Each day brought something new and I was lucky enough not to miss any of it.
I never went back to full-time teaching, but when the children were old enough I started doing a bit of supply work at a local school, which I loved. It was great to go to school for the day then come home and forget it all – no lessons to prepare, no homework to mark, and the job paid well too. I have since done a couple of maternity cover stints, where I was a real teacher again, but it was only ever for three or four months. Both children have followed in my footsteps; Jonathan reading Maths at Nottingham and Abi becoming a teacher after reading Chemistry, also at Nottingham.