Staff Room Thursday C'mon Girls up and at 'em

She lives too far away for me to find anyone to help tbh. Mindee does have a place at nursery 5 days a week, but she prefers her to come to me once a week. The other one goes to another minder near her school. (Who incidentally FORGOT she had her one day last week and didn't pick her up from school!)

I know what you mean, its dog eats dog, but I've had one or other of the girls for 8 years. The older one refers to DH has her 3rd daddy. Guess he's been promoted to 2nd then!

She is such a nice lady and I always thought he was a bit odd. DH can't stand him. Limp hand shake type, he calls him!

Oh well, I might not get a job for 6 months, but I will need to talk to her again. It might be that she's still using me, more for my benefit than hers, since she could go to nursery. Its just that she knows I do earlies and its not easy to find a mindee that starts at 6am!

Mo. as bad as it may seem you can't help what goes off with regards of the dynamics of mindees families, we all become attached and then something like this happens and we feel guilty but it's not your fault, you have to start to think about yourself and your own future. Sorry if that sounds harsh but you can't put your life on hold forever.

Now I have a real humdinger of a problem and will be asking for advice tomorrow.

Well, just taken a call from my bestest family. Always on time, always pay, treat me with respect etc. She's the one that starts really early. She tells me, her and her fella have split up. She's sobbing, because its gonna be a nightmare getting mindee here, but she really must come to me, because it works so well for everyone. Older child is not father of bf and took it too well. She said, 'oh good, now I won't get shouted at and smacked!' So, she's in an awful state and I just kept saying, I'm here, whenever you need me, for both girls, which is true. Very rarely have to say no, because I'm always well within my numbers. All the time I'm taking to her, I just kept thinking, 'I applied for a job yesterday and you may only have me for another 6 weeks!'

The one that I mind, is a strange girl and does not take to change well at all. Its taken the best part of 2 years to settle her with everyone, me, nursery, everyone. Now, potentially within a month daddys buggered off and I'm not going to have her anymore. Feel like shit.

Wot's up mo?

Anyone want to speak to the worst childminder in the whole wide world.

(its not that bad, but I feel quite shitty about it!)

Cheers crace, I should be excited but I'm more nervous. Let's just say this pregnancy has been a worrying one but hopefully if this scan is ok, I'll stop worrying about the previous bleeding and total lack of symptoms and just think myself luck

Yes, thank you all is well now but she lost loads of weight, and being thin anyway it was very uncool. She was vomitting for 6 days in the end, and it seemed like that was our new life after while. Mucho stressful, and staying in the hospital just sucked. But anyway, all that ends well and all that.

LT - I still haven't told mine either, and I would love to be able to tell everyone. So you should! Good luck tomorrow, you must be very excited. I was over 12 weeks at mine and it was just amazing what they could see.

Crace - poor baby How they are ok now! I can understand you wanting to wait With me it's a case of a) I've got punch on maternity jeans which I keep showing by accident on school runs and stuff when holding baby and dead worried of parents seeing and guessing that way and b) desperate to tell ds

I agree about phone so thanks for that.

Just found out double pay baby's mum is not coming to pick up tomorrow (staying tonight) so I just hope she's at toddlers on Monday so I can tell her as I really want us to tell ds this weekend. I'm not going to tell baby's dad as although he's LOVELY, I think mum would be most upset hearing second hand!

Oh crace, poor baby. That must have been horrid for you. Everything ok now?

I think its fair enough to tell them on the phone. I think you might scare them a bit, if you say you need to make a meeting!

Hiya looney, a running visit but I am thinking this one through myself. I had my dating scan last week, and all was well but I am not going to tell parents for a while. Only due to us being away for 2 weeks in November and week before I was off due to my 23 month old having a severe gastro bug and put in hospital for 2.5 days.

Long story short, I think they would high tail and give notice if I told them on top of all that. I wouldn't blame them in fact.

I think on the phone is ok, you never see them right to tell face to face and phone call is better than email. Good luck tomorrow, I am sure everything will go great

Gosh.....just realised, ds will be here so somehow need to get him out of the way when I tell them. It would be so unfair for him to hear about it that way!!

Can I just ask your thoughts on this.....

Tomorrow morning is my dating scan, I decided yesterday that I'd tell parents next week but then realised I can tell 2 of them tomorrow when they collect. This just leave parents of the 2 sisters - I haven't seen them this week and only saw them once last week (au pair is the one I see these days). Do you think I could tell her on the phone? (she told me on phone when she was pregnant with number 2) or do you think I should say I need a meeting with them (knowing that they will find it very hard to find the time)?

I've posted

Sorry Mo

Read more before engaging keyboard

Hope your headache has faded

I asked Didn't want to clutter the Staff room up with non essential stuff! Problem kinda solved now, but still not all together happy about it.

I've been laying on the settee for the last two hours trying to shift a headache, which is still there. When will I be old enough to put my feelings first, eh? I hate being a grown up at times.

Oh dear Mo, have a nice cup of tea and pop neighbours on. The anaesthetic effect will be similar

Ask us WWYD when you are calm

HTH

Hi everyone

Having a horrible day where I'm like a zombie through major tiredness, have baby in a right sensitive state today and I just want to curl up in a ball and sleep. But....can't even though baby napping as need to eat something and off on school run in 45 mins.

Mo - what's up chuck?

Would it be wrong to have a G&T right now? I've got no kids until 4.30 and they're both over 8, so I could get away with it.

Can't see it, it's been cancelled. Try again.

Having a melt down over a Christmas night out with Kbear atm. Too hacked off to discuss right now, but we may ask WWYD later!

Ahem cream buns here girls

Waiting for only mindee today then off to music then greengrocers for fruit n veg. He loves counting out me apples and pears.

NO school run this afternoon, DS1 has football after school then my mum collects and takes him swimming, DS2 going to a friends for tea and then being dropped off after.

Hee hee

Also hee hee is that DS2 got pooped on by a bird on the walk to school this morning. He couldn't quite see the funny point. Oh dear.

Have a good day y'all

I'm on my 3rd cup of tea! Still got a headache though, so I may need a 4th!