Staff Room,,,,,,,,,,,,,on a wet and wild Wednesday

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Two youngest are both down with colds coughing, middle one has been off for a week with it all, and not convinced he will be here all day today, Mum has said phone if he gats any worse again.

It's terrible out there isn't it!! Thank god mum of sisters emailed to say au pair will be dropping off after school run God, to have no double buggy and rushing in this yuck is a big relief Just me and ds holding hands - I don't get to do that much in this job so enjoy it when I do

Oh, were all the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, down to yesterday's thread??? God that annoyed me!!

Right, best shoot!

Morning. What thread? What did I miss?

Done the school run. Mindee and I were just coating up at the front door, ready for the walk in the rain, when I said. 'you know what? Lets go in the car!' We never do that usually. Its only a 6 min walk and its not worth taking the car, but its rotten out there, so we had a little treat! Been back 5 minutes already! No kids til after school, so I'm going to crack on with another order of Christmas cards and then do a bit of shopping later. Got 3 jobs to apply for today too!

morning all. wet here too. will drive to drop in. bad me! dd has podiatry appoinment today for ankle issue. first time i have had take mindee with me (new to all this) have told mindees mum and she fine with it but whats the protocol? how do we do appoinments etc when minding?

no the,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, were cos i meant to type..................... and hit the wrong key

What Thread?????????????????

LOL - the thread was the punctuation one - sure you both saw it!

Oh that one! Yeah, it was SS. She was very kindly helping someone with her policies and some pedant snuck in, had absolutely no advice for the OP, but just told SS off for misspeling something!

Ellie, if your parents are fine with it, then thats all the protocol you need! Obviously if its something of a personal nature (smear test or something!) then you don't take them, but just use your common knowledge

ds in bed with cold/cough
i'm feeling it too
and its a grot day its raining here
forget the cakes who is handing out the medcines any doctors in the house?

My por poorly boy has just had to go home again, gave Calpol at 7.30, Nurofen at 9.45, temp still at 38.7 Mum taking him back to Doctors, poor mite has been ill for two weeks, now i not really drinking either and tottally lethargic.

OK youngest mindee just threw up over me and had the other end running out of his trousers YUK, so had to send him home.

Turned around to realise my girly mindee had the conjunctivitis, the boys have had starting. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgggggggggggggggggggggg.

Mum couldnt get a appointment till Friday!!!!!!!! So sent her off to the chemist, cos the Dr will only give her broline anyway, that is all he gave the boys.

CAN I PLEASE FAST FORWARD TO FRIDAY, HAD ENOUGH OF THIS WEEK.

Who gave us this weather!
I am drying out again for the 3rd time already. Hope everyone starts to feel better soon.

HI all, can i not check my spelling on here today, its too much hard work!?

shosh and dmo, sorry you and mindees are having a bad time, hope everyone is feeling better and less contageous soon!

Cheers Mo, my little buddy
Mo, so do you make your chrismtas cards???..i want something special for dd, something different, but maybe you just make/sell in bulk?

well ive had one emergency this morn, and its making me over my ratios my 1 hour(two 30 min slots)..erm...will i get my wrist slapped?
got two mindees asleep now and off to collect 3 plus dd at 3pm(im over the hour with an under 5, who is as good as gold and in buggy so perfectly able to manage), normally have one extra child(over 8) but shes off today so overall figures are right, just not age

well me and two boy mindees been making loo roll and cotton wool snowmen today , then we made some decorative crackers, went to pick girl mindee up from nursery, off to park in pouring rain for picnic(no time to go back hom as boy mindee starts afternoon nursery 1/2 hour alter!), had quick bite in cafe, mindees had their picnic from herethen back off to nursery, mindee was good this time, few tears but not half as much as last week, but he has been 'testing the water' A LOT todayand can turn the tears on and off like a tap..we'll work eachother out

so need to put washing out on radiators, send some pics to parents and then back off on school run for the tribe

Imkae cards for all occasions! They are a bit like stained glass ones. I paint on assetate with glass paints. Not sure if they travel well, but I am happy to send you one for your DD (as a Xmas gift for you!) I'll see if I can put a couple on my profile to give you an idea of what I do.

Aw Mo they sound lovely and so sweet of you, i really dont mind paying for it though as i know how fab and artistic you are, dd would love that kind of thing, just bought her a new pendant light shade in pink with hanging crytally circles, everytime the sun shines in her room or we have the light on it looks fab!

Raining on and off here too. Should have been going out this afternoon to a local radio station 'Jingle Ball' with the neighbours in a limo but couldn't get time off so am well cheesed off!

Have been to Manchester to try and sort my daughter's school travel pass, (I've no kids till after school today)I went on the train, thinking it was quicker, got there to find I'd dropped her passport photo at school! Got back on train and rushed back to school, found photo on ground in wet and drove back to city centre with relevant forms. They now tell me it could take a week - why it takes a week to make up a travel pass I don't know but I pleaded poverty as it would cost me £2.80 per day for her to get to school by bus.

Oh well, things can only get better!

Tis done! They're not the best of pictures, but you get the idea. I've only got a few left ready made, because I like to make them to order, with names on them. I've also got a lovely penguin I do and a stocking with a teddy sticking out the top. No payment necessary.

That goes for any of you btw, as long as you don't want 15 each!

Aw MO, they're gorgeous!
I would love one if you really dont mind?, any really, teddy and stocking, pengiun, santa, rudolph..you choose...do you already have my email address???

gotta go, mindee woke up and school run in 5 mins, if you need my email address either shosh/dmo or looney have it, or i can get it to you here tonight..thanks chick.x

oops post at same time..ill copy that now if you want to report it and remove it?, ive had loads of spam recently dont know where from?

Will do!

done, email you tonight

My ft mindee is leaving

It's not all doom and gloom as a nursery near by is shutting at xmas and I have had a couple of enquiries lately BUT I'm still very sad

ok i've got the colly wobblys. going out tonight with other cm's from drop in for xmas meal. all really nice but still don't know them very well! also no-one actually said but i think they're doing secret santa so i've put a little smellies set wrapped into my handbag. i'll leave it there till the others get theres out! oh god i'm so painfully shy!

Ellie - bet it will be a great night, the ones I dread are always the best ones! Have fun!

aw, Ellie im sure youll be fine, so glad you 'heard' about secret santa though!, or you would have felt terrible..good detective work