*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Staff Room Monday 17th....Countdown from 9....................*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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This time next week it will be Christmas Eve!!!..am excited and never get to start staff room, so am doing it now!

Since mindee put notice in she ahst been coming full weeks, so mondays are my official day off, 9 days till christmas, loads to still do, plan, clean..so what do i go and do?...offer my services to the nursery in DD's school for the WHOLE day!!!!!!!!!!
am i bloody mad!, then got a settling in session(help mum out so SHE can get some christmas stuff done really?!) Tuesday morning, dd's 1st showing of school play tues afty, then second showing wed morn..got two under 5's all day friday as nursery closed and have nothing palnned, nothing sorted/tidyed and have rging PMT so am like bear with sore head at minute.....count to ten...not long till christmas...not long till christmas...not long till christmas...

Yes the Elf was very funny!

What's with the face, frantaclaus? (FM?)

Wintery greetings to you all.
How thick was that ice this morning! My fingers froze scraping it off.
Last time I need to collect from school at 12 today tomorrow mindee is staying all day as they have there xmas play to do, and preschool finshed last week.
I must remember to wrap all the mindees presents tonight, please remind me!!

No ice at all in Bexley!

tis i fm, sorry mo.
got stood up by a guy i really liked, have dated him before and he bumped into an xgf on saturday, and now he has mixed feelings about her. i asked him straight if he had the chance would he go out with her again and he said he would so i got no chance with him now. oh bugger. am on own again.

hows you?

wrap those presents mumlove instead of being on mn!!!

have to go mo, see you soon x

Oh, that's bad news FM.

I'm OK. Thankfully not on jury service this week and next! I was supposed to be, but managed to get out of it at the very last minute. Only had written confirmation of it on Thursday last week.

I can't wrap them now as the mindees I've got here will see them. Also my DD wants to choose who get what colour of them and i can't remember what she said (no brains left).

Morning all. No mindees today so have walked with school to church then back, 150 unruly children but they all sat beautifully in church and no-one got lost yay.

FM, are you ok ?

Got to pop out, will check on you later

Hi Everyone!
well i only needed to help out in the morning at school as both nursey classes were together!, but it was fab, food was fab..prob now is tho im manicly trying to ring round things that need to be done and nothing is working!, wanted for me and dd to go have hair cut sat morn and my hairdressers is totally full, only app is TODAY! and their closed christmas Eve!..my hair is a nightemare and these are the only people who know how to do it properly, so dont want to pay someone to make me look like ave a huge 70'd Fro!

Well, look at that! You don't see any all year and then 3 come along at the same time!

LOL i was just gunna apologise to ju cos ive nicked the end of hers, but now you're jus jumping on the bandwagaon missy!

Yay, got into hairdressers in village, never been before tho so hope theyre as good as i thinnk as we've just decided to go out sat night with friends and at SIL sunday so hopefully ill still have nice straight silky hair over the weekend(as opposed to the mad afro curls i currently have!)

Well christmas party at charges school was a great sucess 48 ten year olds lots of food what was lovely was the number of them who actually said thankyou on their way out to the playground.

oh total contract to our nursery party this morning, i was flabberghasted by the amount of children who screamed literally screamed "i want another cake, iwant more crisps, i want i want i want"!!!..i just looked on in disbelief and thanked god for my wonderful beautiful dd

{grin] It was just for the grin! I've changed back now!

Thankyou is my favourite word! I am amazed at the amount of children that still don't say it as a matter of course! My dd ends up saying it about a dozen times if we're out for dinner! Every time someone puts something in front of her! I have to pull my Rainbows up on it all the time.

I do have a knack of getting my mindees to say 'Please Mo, I love you!' Quite naughty, but very funny!

i DETEST i WANT..even my newest mindee who's three and can just about get his tongue round it bless him, now says "can i have xxx please?

if anyone says I WANT i say PARDON?, they soon catch on and all parents have comented on how polite they are becoming

Hello all

Guess what? I've just taken on my first real mindee! so pleased mon wed fri pick up from the same pre-school asDD and till 530. fabbo! meeting again on saturday to fill in contracts etc. Will prepare first invoice for her too. she's a young mum but really nice! have to get lots of paperwork finished now though and still so much to do before xmas!

anyway for the mo

Aw well done EM..will she be there with your dd and then at yours with your dd?, that will be lovely

Well done EM! What a nice way to start Christmas!

Do you know, when I first joined up here, one of the first threads I started was about a mindee not saying please or thankyou and I so got flamed!

She was 2.5 at the time and high time she was making some noise that meant please and thankyou imho. It was so bad, that I was trying to teach her by bigging up the others when they wanted a biscuit and she wasn't getting one. I was even accused of being a bully and it was bordering on child abuse!

Needless to say, she got the hang of it in the end and I was NEVER nasty to her, but I think its very important.

i dont mind HOW they say thankyou as long as they try to say it (new mindee sounds like FAK-OO?!, so could be cussing me as well, but he'll learn and im pleased he is trying

lol at all the reindeers

Heh heh heh

FM sorry it's not worked out for you

EM - well done you

Mo - I missed that you have been excused jury duty

Quick dash in before school run so no time to read through. Just wanted to let you know that I've now spoken to mum and all was fine PHEW. I do think it's good that we didn't speak last night as she'd ONLY just got the email!

Byeeeeeee

aw good glad thats over with for you..see you alter, take it easy now chick

Yeah, will do. Just wish I'd never found a link I'd just found, making me worry now about this stuff about the hospital at the weekend/my fall etc. I really wish I could get some proper bloomin advice as I feel like I'm being fobbed off so far!!!

Off to school byeeeeeeee