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Staff Room Tuesday.............. Back on the treadmill

36 replies

shoshe · 08/01/2008 06:58

Not really loved having the mindees back, even my stoppy 5 year old, once I laid the law down was a darling.

They are all back to school today, so the SAHmindees and I are off to soft play.

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shoshe · 08/01/2008 07:48

God is nobody up and about yet, or am I the only hard working CM

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mumlove · 08/01/2008 07:56

I was eating my breakfast and getting texts to say that mindees are running late and might meet at school there not sure !!!

Who sent the rain today, i'm going to get wet.

KatyMac · 08/01/2008 07:58

I'm so ill

i want to cry

Fortunatley I only need to work about 6.5 hrs today - split up into little chunks so I should make it

dmo · 08/01/2008 08:01

poor you Katy

why have you not liked the mindees back shoshe?

raining here too

saff · 08/01/2008 08:07

hello all god am so fat as getting dreessed caught sight of huge fat arse in wardrobe mirror will have to do something any good diets my try slimming world. Got brother of mindee today tryed 9 months ago and cryed all day hope better today if not will be put in cupcoard heh heh (evil laugh)

LoveMyGirls · 08/01/2008 08:18

Morning everyone!

Pmsl dd2 (2yrs) just held up a bit of bran flake on her finger and looked at it in disgust and said bogie, no dear they are bran flakes which you have been eating for the past 10 minutes! She still looked at it and decided it wise to put it on the table! Bless!

KM - Any chance of going to bed in between working?

Saff - Let us know how you get on!

ML - I'm going to get wet too, though i'm not working until 3pm today (but still got to take dd1 to school aqnd dd2 to toddler group and do the food shopping so i'll still be busy)

Shosh - Hope they all get back into the swing of things soon.

I took on a new mindee yesterday but he's not starting until the end of the month got 2 others waiting in the pipeline so fingers crossed things are on the up!(the 2 most recent i've taken on only want 13 hours a week between them so got a long way to go until i'm full!) Need to take what I can get and try to slot them all in together!

KatyMac · 08/01/2008 08:22

I think Shoshe missed out some punctuation

" Back on the treadmill .....Not really - loved having the mindees back,"

crace · 08/01/2008 08:22

Hi you all! I wrote a post but it got lost. Quiet day for us, only one mindee and then an after schoolie - easy day.

Tomorrow is the start of toddler group, hooray!

LMG - fab that things are on the up, so please for you.

Saff, let's not talk fat. I have gained 11 lbs with this pregnancy as "pleasantly plump" person to start with. Darn Christmas. I used to do Weight Watchers in my previous life with huge success.

KatyMac · 08/01/2008 08:22

Yes I will go to bed......just got to last until 9am

LoveMyGirls · 08/01/2008 08:23

Sorry DMO!! Hello!!

crace · 08/01/2008 08:23

Katy, so sorry you aren't feeling well, poor you!

LoveMyGirls · 08/01/2008 08:27

Thanks Crace

I'm quite chunky too but people keep bringing tins of choc biscuits round and i'm too weak!! Will make an effort to get more excercise and eat less junk once it starts to get a bit warmer i think!

crace · 08/01/2008 08:48

That's the problem isn't it? I got so much chocolate over Xmas that you just feel "obligated" hee hee to eat it! We got a huge tin on Quality Street too, so yum.

Roll on the winter pounds, it really is unavoidable isn't it?

SugarSpiceandAllThingsNice · 08/01/2008 08:53

Morning all, can't stop, off to midwife then drop in, catchya around lunch time - have a good day

shoshe · 08/01/2008 08:58

Didnt punctuate the Op very well meant NOT!!! Really loved having mindees back

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KatyMac · 08/01/2008 09:00

I got 25 tins/boxes of chocolate/biscuits

I don't know what to do with it all

crace · 08/01/2008 09:04

Katy, nooooo! I would be giving it away, that's dangerous in my house.

Shoshe, we knew that Bless you

Mindee and dd doing colouring and sneaking on here for brekkie and entertainment!

KatyMac · 08/01/2008 09:07

I have given away 5

I am sharing out a Christmas cake I got

DH & I ate all of the most beautiful chocolate tree a mindees mum made me

So we are down to 18 - oh & I started a box of After Eights

I really hate chocolate

dmo · 08/01/2008 09:11

i hate posh chocs given those away give me roses any day

also got a shed of beer and wine as we had a new years eve party at our house and everyone brought their own beer and we were left with loads

MaureenMLove · 08/01/2008 10:07

Morning all. Bit late in this morning, I was making birthday plans and needed a different website. I could have asked here, but its food stuff and I want to suprise Kbear with what we cook!

Took 4 schoolies to school this morning, although 2 of them are 10, so they didn't actually walk with me! Got 18m old here now and she's playing with the dolls house at my feet!

BoysAreLikeDogs · 08/01/2008 10:11

I HAD to finish Toblereone

Thank you all for your kind thoughts on my bad news yesterday, it really helps.

Waiting for mindee 1 til 5pm, mindees 2 and 3 after lunch til 7pm.

Go away rain, I had planned a scuffle through the leaves in the woods but it's just too wet. Sigh

Have a good day all

southernbelle77 · 08/01/2008 10:25

Morning!
Not working today now as mindee ill and at home. DD not at preschool though as she hasn't been feeling well and didn't want to go this morning - now wondering why I didn't send her as she seems fine! She will be going tomorrow!
Tomorrow have two mindees so going to try and enjoy the day off today.
Really need some more work though. Never realised when I started that work would be so hard to come by
Hoping to get a call later from a friend of a friend who is looking for a cm though so fingers crossed.

saff · 08/01/2008 11:52

hi mindees having nap been to tod group this morning, dh bought me sweetie braclett for xmas on instructions says not to get wet took off to change mindee bum when washed hands went back in to play room half hour later relized no braclett went back to nappy chande not there went mad that another mum had nicked my braclett had them anounce it at music time and have had every one searching and saying how awful it is drove home in tears. Just been to make cuppa and there it was sitting by sink where was left when washed up this morning what a nob. Also my on going take the p parent has asked me to have mindee so she can do her gardening on sat, felt like making a suggestion on where to put trowl !

shoshe · 08/01/2008 12:33

Go on Saff I dare you.

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hennipenni · 08/01/2008 12:44

PMSL saff.

Katy I hope you feel better soon, I would offer to take some of those choccies from you but haven't even started mine yet!

Looks like I have a poorly mindee on my hands again, now sleeping on the sofa, mindee never, ever,ever sleeps here unless poorly, still parents collecting in 1.5 hours so will leave her unless she chucks up etc. Other mindee not eatyen much either, could just be fussy I suppose!

Hd some good news this morning- mindee 1 parents are both going to be working full time so I will be having mindee for an 2 extra days so will have her in total for four days, this means that I will be full again except for Fridays when I'll have two spaces but I'm not going to fill them!