opening the sick bay in the STAGFF ROOM, sniff sniff

I'm a bit of a hard taskmaster tbh! I don't believe in rewards for doing things you should be doing! She is just a damn dizzy blonde. She's not naughty or really any different from any other 12 year old, but when dh tells me he's sick of hearing me shout, I just loose it! It wouldn't hurt for him to step in and be a parent now and again. He does, mostly, but he doesn't get the early morning crap that I get and thinks I'm being mean! This morning, she lost her tie! Where? She had it on when she came home from school and now its gone! Had she done her jobs and cleared her room up last night and sorted her school stuff, she could have had time to realise her tie was missing!

He's still not talking to me! Silly arse!

And hello to EM, mumlove, dmo and Katy - hope you lot feel better soon. Katy- how's your dd today? Shoved off to school?

LT - no good is it - harass them until they get you into the physio. Hope girls last day goes well too

SB - thanks for the reminder about chinese new year, my dd and mindees are the perfect age now to do this stuff so the more the merrier!

Mo- Oh dear, it sounds like your typical mum/daughter relationship. Have you thought about different ways to get her to do things, is it just chores you are having problems with? Maybe some sort of positive reinforcement system? I swear they are never too old for rewards, they love it. A month of good behaviour/chores = something small she'd like?

Hi all, just not a good day in England is it? My baby mindee is full of cold with red eyes that he keeps rubbing. Made me laugh, looking out for the dreaded CJ!!

I may as well mix with the germs then as clearly I'm coming down with it. Bunged up and sore throat, hope it doesn't get too bad as can't take anything for it! Fed up enough with the painful walking, I need this like a hole in the head! Got up in the night to go to the toilet and my god, it took me AGES to get there - couldn't stand straight and could hardly open my legs to walk. THANK GOD it was back to normal painful this morning otherwise I'd have had to close. Getting a tad worried about this now, I MUST get through to 6th June!!!

It's the last day for the sisters today So we'll have a party for lunch. Ds is off school today so can join in (he's not been well but was supposed to go back today but as he's still not 100% and I would have had 5 under 5's on the school run, I decided to keep him home for my sake really . Back to normal tomorrow though, definitely!!

Oh yeah.........how many of you are part of a 'network'? What does it involve? I've always wanted to be in one but my area didn't have one and now they want to set one up but local childminders don't really want it We are therefore having a meeting at local toddler group tomorrow with an Early Years person but would be good to know what it's all about

i feel rot today too (women promblems) not had them for 10yrs so my tummy is in so much pain today just want to lie on the sofa but i will carry on ..........

might run out of the staff room now dont want the dreaded cold aswel, hope your all feeling better soon

Here we are Not what I was looking for, but perfect for the little ones, SB.

Morning all. I had a colouring page for Chinese New Year for my Rainbows a couple of years ago, I'll see if I can link it for you SB.

Having a pants morning so far. Not really bad, just flipping unnecessary crap really. DH has been ignoring me since last night, because I shouted at DD and he is 'sick of hearing me shout at her' I replied, 'well, I'm sick of having to f'ing shout, maybe you could step in to prevent me sounding like a bloody fishwife!' He's ignored me since then! I didn't help matters by doing lots of loud muttering and everytime dd wasn't doing as she was told, I said very loudly, 'I'm not going to shout, it doesn't matter what you do, whatever.'

"Going to start finding some bits for chinese new year to do"

I read this as

"Going to start finding some bits of cheese to do for new year" - I think I need more sleep - or a new brain

morning. Sorry you're not feeling well EM. Hunted through the cupboards and found some lemsip for you [passes it over]. No tissues I'm afraid so you'll have to use toilet roll until someone else can pass them to you!
Busy day here too with 2 mindees and dd plus friend and her children too!
Going to start finding some bits for chinese new year to do with them next week as well!

Morning,

Don't worry EM I have also got the cold! Had a sore thoart all weekend the woke up yesterday full of it, so I also have lots of tissues with me.