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[StrawberryMartini]

Morning all. My son is still asleep YAY! He's been 5.30am for ages.

Crumpets again today I think.

Why has it been so quiet recently? Are you all hibernating?!

I dont get this new posty thingy.

Hello you! How are you? Hows your ear? If you go to the top and customise your talk board, you can get MN classic, which is the way it always has been. You should have been here when it all changed, it was chaos! You can also hide topics that you never look at, in your MN too, I think.

Hello! ears getting better thanks (like my new name-maybe i should have been big ears! hahahaha!) life sucks at the moment thoguh. B1's little best friend is dying of cancer. We go evey week, its horrible. two of my friends lost their babies last week, and to top it all of im having trouble TTC and have a scan next week to see whats up. oh boo. Boo and boo again.

any cake?

Thank you for the lovely welcome all. I have just opened the Tea Shop as I spoke to Lissie this morning and she asked me to say hi to everyone!

Hi all, am very today as longest mindee and fulltimer has just gave me notice..on good terms, mum hopes to bring her back in spetember when she starts her course again, but for ltos of reasons

ok ok - soz Mo, I didn't hear you

We went to Somerset, it was great, had lovely weather etc and YES it was term time [bad mother]

Oh dear, we could do with some cake, couldn't we? Let me see now oh, how about this one?

Like the name Lolly, if I may call you that? Crap about little boy, is there any hope? Rubbish about your friends too.

Bad news for you too MI. I hate it when a long timer goes. How anyone could be a foster carer is beyond me. Can you imagine how much worse it would be, if you had them 24/7?

Dig into the cake, I'll put the kettle on.

Soz? Is that you trying to be young and trendy! Did you drink lots of cider? I do love a nice cold pear cider.

hmmmmmmmmmmmm i bought choc eclairs back from drop in!

just in back end of s&v bug chick, but you can have my piece of cake, just been to aprk with said mindee, treat her to lunch out then walked back, am shatterd, no eating for 4 days and this bug have made me so weak!, this wind will blow me over

OH I've just discovered pear cider

No,I stuck to G&T as I'm still dieting

OK roll call of goodies on the table.

chocolate cake
chocolate eclairs
cream scones
crumpets

I'll make sure there's enough Andrews liver salts shall I?

think i'm starting with the bug missinvisible tummy feels all wrong
got busy night tonight too as its parents evening, cubs and scouts and a agm at high school

my mindees are being the best today as i not feeling well i'm just sat on floor among the toys as they play (all asleep now)

i satrted sunday DMO, felt like i was drugged on strong pain kilers you know when you go all whoozy?, felt REALLY sick but not literally, best thing to do is not eat and drink plenty of water, i havent kept anything down since sunday, and for someone my size thats a miracle!, im not really hungry, piched one of mindees oven chips at lunch and its still there..fingers crossed!, backa t work today but it knocked me for 6 yesterday..hope you dont get it.

hey we might all be size 0 supermodels by the time this bug is gone

hello

i'll say hello too - but more often than not i seem to get ignored

hello

urgh, beleive me if you get it, you wont be laughing n all i wana do now is eat but it wont stay there

hi booth

hey booh, i feel like that sometimes, u ok?

Got a text tellingme the parents of the baby think its 'unfair' of me to ask for 4 weeks money due to Mum going on mat leave early (should have been Dec finish). It is in their contract which they signed FFS!

I would never drop them in it if I was finishing for any reason. I would always give them notice so why do parents think we should go without pay while they mess us about? I have always tried to help and charged them half for sickness - wish I'd done full now!

Suretstart phoned me yesterday to ask if I could mind, for 10 days, a 13 mth old while his Mum is poorly. Should I tell the parents of the baby even though he is off for 2 weeks maybe forever if Mum doesn't go back to work? I am geting £4.50 ph for this temp contract which is alot better with Christmas around the corner.

Why not tell the parents as you have this child coming in you will take full pay for two weeks and half for the other, that way if she does come back after Maternity, you havnt burnt your bridges, but as you say THEY SIGNED THE CONTRACT!!!!!!! I have a hand book, which I send out to a prospective parent to read, then I actually go through it word for word and make sure they take in things like that.

Sorry, meant to catch up with thread and reply so not to ignore anyone but ds keeps nicking the laptop and I've just got a few mins before he nicks it back (but it keeps him quiet! )

I'm a bit today as ds went for a play date and when I collected, I mentioned in conversation that I'm expecting again (I know she won't say and I trust her) and she said 'well I didn't like to say but I was pretty sure you were'. I said I know, my tummy has popped out already and she said 'oh, it was more the totally drained and knackered look - i was the same when i was pregnant' (I do look pretty bad in the morning after pushing the 2 girls to school and back to car as it's when I feel pretty yuck). My db was round on Monday and had a face when he saw my tummy without my jumper covering it (he never normally notices things like this - he's a bloke) and to top it all......pre-school mindee (nearly 4) has this afternoon said 'look....you've got a baby in there' and I just said 'oh thanks X boo hoo - I know, I've eaten too many cakes!' and made a sort of joke about my big tummy. I'm far too hot playing with the kids to have a jumper cover me during the day, I just put it on for the school run and at drop off/pick up time. I'm mainly concerned about mindee going home and saying something about my tummy like she did to me - you know what kids are like at this age. I've got another 4/5 weeks til I planned on telling them - should I just stop worrying? or tell them sooner?

ok as of 21st dec, im £120 a week down and minde who has(albeit was hardwork) been with me since start will have gone

Oh poo. Any hope of a replacement quick smart?