Celebration

I dropped the boys off at Beavers and checked my phone to see a WhatsApp saying our dissertation marks were out.  Why this hasn't come from the University we're not sure, but someone happened to look at the marks website and saw they were out.  

A summer of writing about women and their clothes, a much reduced summer holiday, 8 interviews with women and 16,000 words resulted in a mark of 80%.  Utterly delighted.  I can hold my head high with not just a Masters, but a highly respectable result.  It was a pretty rough year or so before I started the Masters, so this really helps show it was the right decision to stop working for a bit, re-group and spend some time studying. 

Today I'm grateful for: 
The husband collecting the boys and having them sneak in with chocolates and champagne
Lunch time walk with the husband into town 
A GREAT result for all the hard work put in