Thursday Staff Room... what no one around yet??

Oh I would say mumsnetting is productive!!

wow - i have a whole day off today and my ds is at pre-school - of course i should be doing something more productive with my time but no i'm mumsnetting instead!!!

Fruitloop and SB77 hope you fill vacancies soon, I have just took a part timer on, so that has eased worrying a little but still not enough financially to keep me afloat, this is definatelly a draw back of childminding isn't it.

Morning cms! I haven't been in for a while, been telling mindees computer is broken!

I am off sick today with tummy bug. Which I know I got from my baby mindee and I am pretty gutted as the are usually a really good family to mind for.

So I am ill on hat is supposed to be ds's first day at nursery - if I dn't take him will feel guilty (may not be able to manange the walk anyway), if I do take him will feel guilty as other mindee also goes to nursery and her nanna will probably have had to have her and take her to nursery today.

Oh yes and we have no bread or milk in the house! May have to drag myself to the shop. Wjhy do I feel guilty when I am off ill? I am only ever ill if mindees come with something when they should have stayed home!!

Oh fruitloop I totally understand that feeling! I'm really in need of some more work but as yet it's not happening. Did have a query the other day but was hoping to hear back yesterday and haven't. It's only temporary work, but right now that would be better than nothing.
I could really do with a full timer and then I would worry no more!
Good luck and hope you hear something soon.

Morning gals,

what a horrible morning.

One of my mindees is definitely leaving very soon but hasn't given me a date yet and my full-timer is reducing to three days a week. Slightly panicking about filling my spaces. Had a lot of interest but still nervous as they are all part-timers and its hard to get them all to fit in. I don't even know how interested they are either.
There's one who lives in the next street to me who would be perfect as she will be full-time but she's also seeing another childminder who lives on my street. She is good friends with the mindees of this other minder so it's more likely she'll go to her .
I'm just really worried cos I haven't got a contingency plan if my spaces aren't all filled which I rely on.
It's so stressful sometimes.

I've been up ages too, but I just switched on the TV to see the news and the fishing channel was on! DH has turned me into a fishing geek! I couldn't stop watching!

morning all!
I'm up and about having breakfast etc so that we are ready when mindee arrives.
Not sure what to do today as the weather sounds dreadful out there.

Shoshe i have been a CM for oh only about 13 years but the CC terrify me lol.

They are introducing grading in April so yet something else to stress about

aGalChangedHerName Good luck sure you will be great after all your a MNetter

I was up but having to change my register a bit and reprint it as some Parents cant follow a simple column and write their child's times in their own column. One Dad put it in another child's!!!!

So I have coloured each child's columns! Bet he still gets it wrong!

Great Dad, but definitely a blonde, and info I have to write down, and then he dost always give it to Mum (Mum and I have a telephone check up on it once a week)

Hello

Dont normally post here but have my CC inspection sometime today or tomorrow so up mega early and bricking it as always lol!!!