Monday Monday morning! staff room open!

A perfect solution, VV

Anyone get pampered yesterday? I had my lunch cooked for me but I still had to sort washing and do ironing. I went to aquafit class in the afternoon, first visit to gym for ages!

Had quite good wkend, took ds (5) to see his fav footy team play against Wigan - we drew. Got soaked getting back home waiting for buses on saturday night in pouring rain is not much fun.

No mindee till school time, not seen Mum at school tho so presume he's in, took car in again to garage to have light fixed (am getting 2 be regular customer at the mo!). Had lady with 18 mth old on Friday come see me, I think I impressed her. I had another call this am from another lady with 3 yr old, at last, work is picking up! Ds said yesterday he's glad I'm a cminder so i don't have to go out to work and leave him - ahhh sweet!

Violet is a genius - do you get school holidays?

You could mind school hols (& maybe even occasionally after school)

mo - can you take a "career break"? why not take the job for a term and see how you like it - i wouldn't inform ofsted as if it doesn't suit it will be a big ole hassle re-registering , also you could still mind adhoc in holidays and by special arrangement - at the moment ofsted registration is still under £20 and insurance £35(mine anyway) so it's not a lot to pay out to stay registered and keep your options open - as for the piles of c/m equipment - chuck it in the garage?

congratulations on getting the new job by the way

As long as the child is mega-dribbling, ime LMG

My theory, totally non-scientific, is that they swallow loads and loads of dribble, the equivalent of drinking masses of water, which has an laxative effect, hence loose poos.

Any idea how long they last?

That's alright then.

Teethy nappies are the work of the devil

No more since the 2nd one, baby is asleep now (and my dd) baby is going at 2.30 via the doctors and his uncle is bringing some spare clothes round for him so not going too badly now.

Loopy !

Hiya all

Mindees asleep yay

Welcome MM
Crace -hope you fell better sooon
EM thatnks for opening up today
VV - nice (not)
Sb- enjoy your cakes !
LMG - any more yucky poos?
Booh - whassup ?
ML - have a good day
Sm - hi !
Mo - congrats, looks like you are going to go for it.

Hi to all, hope not missed anyone

Hello strangers! I thought I'd pop in and say hi as I haven't been in for AGES!!!! Any hot gossip?

Right, back from library time and mindee is having a nap before lunch, so time to think.

Pros
Get rid of all mindee stuff in house!
Thats a whole list of pros in itself!

Hours are 8.45 - 2.55. 10 mins from home in rush hour. Leave after DD and back before her.

All holidays off and paid.

Cons
Teenagers.
Difficult if dd is ill Although nanny is retired and I could pop home at lunch time and DH works from home and local a lot.

Complete change of career. No idea what I'm doing!

Money OK, not much more that I can get now.

Got to let parents down. Really nervous to tell the one I've got today.

What do I do about OFSTED? Do I need to tell them. How do I wrap up this business?

my house still stinks!!!
and i'm still soaking ans scrubbing my saucepan!!!!

mindee 1 has suspected conjunctivitus - yuck - not 100% sure it is though and it seems on the mend anyway.Have kept her home from group/nursery anyway - saves my legs till school run!

Morning everyone.
Just a quick pop in before I need to start thinking about getting coats on for the preschool pick up. Nappy to change first though!
1 of my mindees is ill today he wasn't well on friday when I had him, so nanny took him to the dr's on way home and he has an ear infection in both ears, poor lad .

Mo - excellent, let us know what you decide.
EM - hope all goes well.
mindingmum - welcome .
LMG - send baby home.

A big hello to everyone else, must go now.

Thing is he seems happy enough and I hate sending them home and if it is just teething then it's not like its contagious. On the other hand he has been like this since last week, I think i'd been taking him to the doctors by now so maybe see how he is and if he keeps doing it send him home and ask mum to take him to the doctors? If he does it again I'm going to have to ask mum to at least come out of work on her lunch break to fetch more clothes for him.

Ick, LMG - I would send home actually - that's obviously something else going on.

Really quick - Baby (8mths) came this morning, mum warned his nappies are loose (he had 1 loose one with me last week too so i'm assuming its teething?) thing is he has had diahorrea twice this morning I've just put the last clean set of clothes on him. Once was all up his back the 2nd was soaked through his clothes (yuck!)

WWYD? What if I run out of clothes?

Hi there mindingmum, booh, SB, SM, and EM!

Thanks for the sympathy girls, we think it's a back to back cold as I was starting to get better over the weekend. I really really want a nap Dh is home today ill, and I am SO jealous - wish I could have called out sick today! We just can't really in this job can we? Even more jealous as dd went up to lay down with her daddy and I bet it will be warm and cuddly up there. Though, I bet the neighbours will hear their snoring - DH is awful and dd snores when she is ill.

Congrats Mo! Go on give us the pros and cons

Ummmm - so do I want this job or not then? Its mine if I want it - just had the call. Start date 21st April, so don't actually need to give notice today!

Morning all

Already on third coffee and having biccies this morning - really hacked off with whole EYFS and Ofsted

HAve a great day!

MaureenMLove - good luck with outcome of your interview. Getting shortlisted and interviewed is an achievement in itself

Morning all and welcome MM . You may be my replacement, I find out about that job today girls. Not even sure I want it now! I'm thinking better the devil you know for a little bit longer! I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't take the first job that comes along, maybe I should go primary school age first. Oh god, its gonna be a long day. I need to make a decision today too, if I am offered it. Start date is one month from today, so notice needs to go home tonight!