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Its Friday Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Oh and the STAFF ROOM is Open

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shoshaliteupthetree · 16/11/2007 06:35

best day of teh week, Swimming, love it , inthe water by 9.15, hours swimming, changed and snack before we leave the pool at 11.00, and all the little fish fall asleep in the car, transfer to bed and I get to sit down for 2 hours (even little girl mindee will sleep for two hours after swimming) with a coffee and admin (well MN) up and fed, no school run on a Friday afternoon, and most have been picked up by 3, the last gone by 4, oh I do love Fridays

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fruitloop79 · 16/11/2007 14:33

oh yeah

fruitloop79 · 16/11/2007 14:33

hey, I thought putting * either side of word makes it bold?

do i have to put an either side of everyword* ?

MaureenMLovesmincepies · 16/11/2007 14:31

HEY!!! How are you! I was only thinking about you yesterday. God, its been weeks, how have you been doing? So, many questions! Right, you've got 20mins before I need to do the school run, so spill!

fruitloop79 · 16/11/2007 14:31

actually (munch, munch) they're not bad (munch ,munch) with a bit of marmite on

We love Night garden here! my DS and 11 month mindee think it's fab! I think it's a bit wierd myself. Mr Maker's a good one too. We always put cbeebies on @ 5pm for the favourites.

ITS SOOOO COOOLLLLLLLLLLDDDD!!!

fransmom · 16/11/2007 14:26

hi mo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MaureenMLovesmincepies · 16/11/2007 14:23

Oh poor you! I always keep a spare stash of wheat based products in the freezer. Yesterday, I had a naan bread for lunch!

fruitloop79 · 16/11/2007 14:20

everyone seems to have this belly ache thingie, god i hope my lot don't get it!

I'm just going to make my delicious oatcake sarnie

MaureenMLovesmincepies · 16/11/2007 14:18

I'm here! I had chippos for lunch! Me and mindee are still taking it easy. She's not particularly ill tbh, she hasn't got a temp and has been chatting away as usual. We've watched Joseph twice now, so we're giving CBeebies a go. I dont usually have the TV on, so I've never seen the Night Garden! TV only goes on after school, so I suffer Drake & Josh and Hannah Montanna.

I was looking forward to an evening teaching DD how lucky she is to have decent shoes to wear. I always make her watch the sad bits on Children in Need! We've got to go to a Virgin Vie party. I wouldn't mind, but I went to one 2 weeks ago!

LoveMyGirls · 16/11/2007 14:15

I'm here, feeling a bit weird today, got dull belly ache and feel tired!

Kids are sleeping here too I'm having a girls night tonight (see thread in chat please) and dc's are goignt o pil's tomorrow til sun so I'll be able to catch up on lots of stuff! Quite excited but wish I wasn't so tired! Dp woke me this morning and I really thought it was only 2am was gutted I had to get up!

fruitloop79 · 16/11/2007 14:10

Good afternoon everyone!

It's nap time, it's soooo quiet

DB got day off and has eaten all the bloody bread, he's gone to play golf and I cant go out cos kids in bed, might have to do a make shift sarnie out of oatcakes 9(yummy )

Spent morning at mindee school assembly then group chatting to other mum's about childbirth (oh joy!)

I'm hoping I haven't entered an empty Staff room again, it was very quiet yesterday eve! I do smell though

shoshaliteupthetree · 16/11/2007 13:37

well we swam, we slept we ate, now the rugrats are tumbling all over each other in fits of laughter!!!

I did my invoices for December AND January (always give out Jans with Decs then the parents give me a postdated check for Jan on their last day with me in December, means no late payments)

AND I booked the venue for our Christmas Do, 4 childminders and 18 mums going to Poole for a Chinese.

DH gets to drive the coach

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BoysAreLikeReindeer · 16/11/2007 12:56

Strawbs that's just asking for trouble !

Hope the rest of the day passes uneventfully

StrawberryMartini · 16/11/2007 12:55

God I am having such a bad day!

DS woke three times last night - thought it was because of a molar but now not sure as he's been whingy all day and I've had a dodgy nappy from him. Fortunately he's asleep now.

AF arrived so I'm all hormonal - little things like the milk being off were enough to send me over the edge this morning! 4 yr old mindee arrived 10 minutes early, and has soiled himself twice already today - it's a problem that I think is connected with his epilepsy so he can't help it but it does get me down.

And I bumped my head on the kitchen cupboard door!

Thank god it's Friday - only a few more hours to go, surely not much else can go wrong??

MaureenMLovesmincepies · 16/11/2007 12:35

Our primary was on a mufti day today too. Shame mindees mother forgot the money. (just for a change) Its only a £1 and I rarely get it back. Not worth persuing it really, is it? I do it for so many of my schoolies, I think I might start a yearly one off payment of £5 to cover all schoolies mufti days!

MamaG · 16/11/2007 11:30

mumlove - thanks for posting about non uniform day. I set off for school with DD, wondering if it was non uniform day at her school too, when I saw a boy from the year above in jeans!

I called over hte road "hey, is it non uni day today? Do you need to take any money"

He rpelied "yes, 50p and you have to wear something yellow"

(yellow fFS)!

DD looked horrified when I turned round, apparently he's the "coolest kid in school" and I'd been hollering at him

SHe was late for school, but at least she wasn't in uniform!

MaureenMLovesmincepies · 16/11/2007 11:27

We've having alovely time! Me and mindee have just decorated cd's with glitter glue and when they're dry, in about 4 months, we'll stick two back to back with a bit of a hangy thing in the middle. Beautiful! And still 4 hours til god damn dd comes home from school! Happy days!

BoysAreLikeReindeer · 16/11/2007 11:22

Morning all !

I love Fridays too, my day off, so supposed to be doing PTA stuff (yeah yeah, in a minute)
Shosha - You are a girl after my own heart
LMG -
Mo - you are the queen of rapier wit, am glad you only thought it rather than actually saying it !
Mumlove - have a good day
Katy -
Looney - hopefully you will avoid the bug
Sweetie - A weekend away, how fab is that ?

right , off to have quick squizz at the rest of MN before I compose the schedule for Guess The Weight of the Cake sheesh

SweetSnowflake · 16/11/2007 10:10

Got through!..Got swedish body massage booked for 9.15 in morning, so still get out in time to go swimming with dd and dp..cant wait!

off to play with the girls now then finish packing..see you all later, have a lovely wekend everyone.x

MaureenMLovesmincepies · 16/11/2007 10:08

Just sung and danced our way through Joseph and His Coat, punctuated with moaning about DD on here! Mindee doesn't seem that ill to me! She wants chips for lunch, so we're going to go and buy some in a minute, to bung in the oven and possibly a bit of choccie too! Why not, eh? It's cold, she's got a cold and its snuggly day! Might even treat myself to some of those Nescafe Mocca Chocca things!

SweetSnowflake · 16/11/2007 09:56

morning everyone..sorry some of you are feeling poorly still and lmg, sorry you ahve got such inconsiderate parents, i think we all have a t least one lot of these!

i only have one mindee till lunch time as then we're off to centreparcs for long weekend..girls are playing with the fuzzy felts while i try in vain to get through to aqua sana as dp buying me a full body massage..if i can get through and if they can fit me in?...............

mumlove · 16/11/2007 09:21

Mindee now on his way here. Better get ready to go to toddler group.

LOONEYplayingachristmasTUNEy · 16/11/2007 08:53

Morning all

I'm sat here with dressing gown on, dh taking ds to school this morning . I made a comment last night about other dh's helping out if they're around and I don't have any mindees blabla and he looked at me like 'yeah right'. THEN....this morning I ignored ds so dh could get him ready for a change and was about to get up at 8.10 when dh came up and asked what time he needs to leave etc etc

So, gonna get dressed in a mo, then have a cuppa and some warm croissants (shame I have sandpaper throat though ) and around 10ish I have childminder friend coming - too late to cancel. Hopefully kids will just play in our playroom and we can have coffee and chat (it's just her grandkids today). After that, I'm doing bullet points of what I need mentioning to OFSTED in my complaint reply.....I'm not doing the letter......my dad INSISTS he'll do it to get the 'right' wording because of how this came about

Feel a tad bit sick right now - hoping it's pregnancy related and not the bug coming to me!

Shosh and Mo - sounds like good day planned Mo you were NBU, but I remember being that sort of age too - poor you! (actually, no, I would have changed but back then you'd get a smack or something if you didn't do as you were told! )

Katymac - you STILL not well Sorry you have to work today!

ML - have a good day

LMGs - what can I say?????

LoveMyGirls · 16/11/2007 08:39

I've asked for that too KM, i sent a newsletter home asking that and i've now got a spare pair of trousers in my draw. It's jsut so draining I feel im constantly offending her.

Katymac · 16/11/2007 08:35

Why not ask for some stuff to be left at your house

Nappies & wipes
2 or 3 outfits

Then when you use something send a lage note home saying I need XYZ tomorrow?

It has worked for me in the past (but you need a bit of space)

LoveMyGirls · 16/11/2007 08:30

It reallt makes no odds Mo, They just dont listen either that or they dont care I'm going to send a list home today of everything he needs to bring but i do this time and time again and it works for a few days then it slips.

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