While I know that the semester isn’t over, far from it, I have definitely slowed down this week and really struggled with my thesis progress. Every time I sat down to write, I felt stuck. But I realized it was less stuck, and more distracted.

With this week being my last week of work before maternity leave, and still no replacement teacher in sight, I’ve been working like crazy to prepare potential lessons and information that whoever is in my room will need. I keep hearing that “it’s not my problem”, but in a way it is. I cannot leave my students without knowing they’ll be okay and if that means extra work on my part, then that’s what I’ll do!

But in truth, the added work and the added stress, combined with the frantic cleaning I’ve been making my husband help me with, I’m feeling very tired, and now very pregnant. I’m not complaining, just explaining, why sitting down to write has been very challenging this week.

I know that once she’s here, life will be even crazier, but as Friday is my last day of work, I plan to spend next week making up for the time I lost this week. My plan for this upcoming week is to fully finish my lit review, which just requires a final look through, and then to write one-two more chapters of my novel!