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[mumlove]

Morning everyone

Just have DD to sort out and get to school this morning before mindee arrives as this is my short and quiet day and I enjoy that.

Only cheerios and mini choc weetabix for breakfast this morning as I don't have all the other fancy stuff that you all have.

Thought I'd pop in and say hi

I'm also very glad it's Friday! I've had the busiest 2 weeks ever - 3 boys aged 4 and 5 (plus my own dd who's almost 2) full time for the Easter hols. We had a great time and they really enjoyed themselves but, wow, I'm knackered!!

Nick, that feeling is very fresh in my mind right now. I had to let down 5 families and it wasn't easy! I was really upset about my plaster baby. All I kept thinking about was, how they'd cope finding someone else and how baby would have to settle again, since she took quite a while to settle with me. TBH, I nearly turned the job down, just on the strength of my feeling for this particular baby. It was DH that made me realise that it really is all about 'you' in the end. You can't go on forever, doing it for the sake of not upsetting the family. You have to put yourself first. I'm sure whatever your decision was, you made the right choice.

sorry to hear your feeling down nick but you know what's right for you right now.
will you be looking for a new family then?

Thing is, when its you that's rocking the boat, so to speak, you will think, 'is it easier to just stick with what I know.' When the decision is not yours i.e. the family make the decision, you just get on with it.

Nick, broke my heart when I decided to give notice to the 2 sisters I used to look after, I was especially attached to the younger sister who I first looked after at 5 weeks old! I do see them on the very odd occasion i.e at one of the groups if their new cm attends, they also came to ds's birthday party at the weekend but it's not the same. BUT....it WAS the right decision, I couldn't carry on and that was that!

How are you chick? Hows that bump coming along? I really miss coming being part of the conversation already. I know so much about you lot, I can't stop lurking, but I don't have anything constructive to say anymore! Nothing CM related anyway.

Although, I cold share with you that I got a really not very nice, but expensive pressie for one of my parents! It was a glass something, I won't say exactly, just in case...! I asked DH, what I should do with it and he said put it on E-bay!

Jeez, my typing is lousing tonight! Can you actually make sense of that!

Yes, it's hard when you are the one who is rocking the boat... far easier when you get told you are no longer needed - then you just get on with it.
End of the day, I need to look after No.1 and that's me. I don't like change, I don't deal with change well... but I know that sometimes change has to happen, that a change is better than sticking with the same routine all the time.
Timing is nearly ideal, as I can finish the school year. When working term-time only, I think leaving at the end of the school year makes the most sense. It's a natural time for there to be change, and gives my employer over 4 months to find replacement childcare (be it another nanny, childminder or nursery).

Maureen, it must have been very hard for you to give notice to the families. You are changing things completely by doing a different job. I'm at least staying in the job role, just with a different family. It is just a job at the end of the day, but as it is with children, it is hard to let go.

Good for you. Can you share you plans or not?

Ooops! X-posts and lengthy conversation with DH on the phone! Is it still in the same area or will you be moving home too?

It is very hard to leave a job when it's child related. I think to do this job you need to have a certain amount of attachment - it's what the parents are looking for, someone to care for and about their child while they are working. Not in a psycho way but in a caring and loving way. Hang in there Nick, they are lucky to have you.

Mo - am curious now, which expensive tat did you get? sorry

I will read through but just popped on to say am alive, and hanging in there. 3 more weeks today til I give up too, so you won't be the only lurker Mo!

Oh, and Dh is in negotiations for a house in the States to rent out and give us a footprint back home just in case we might ever go back. Keep your fingers crossed - it needs work and would need an extension if we were to ever move in ourselves but it's a great price at a great time in the US housing market.

cut glass cakestand!

ACK! And CRINGE!!!

Did she perhaps think you were 80?

Same area, so no house move involved. I'm changing to a all-year-round job, instead of term-time only. Being local, I may get to see the children still, at toddler group, swimming etc. Not sure if keeping in touch is wise or not, hard to know.

Do people still use cake stands? Cakes don't last that long around here

Thing is, its a standing joke in my family. My mum bought one at a bootfair and it was wonky. I hated it all those years ago, but she, (being a tad older than me!) loved it! Everytime you put little cakes on it, like older people do, they slid to one side! I feel dreadful, it clearly cost a lot of money. (I know this, because I've done what any normal person would do - I've checked out the website!)

Cant you use it for a LARGE candle

Or put this on it?

I was browsing through Chat and saw this - pmsl

In fact, I am still laughing

Er no. It just isn't going to fit in my new all singing, all dancing mod cons kitchen! The thing that bothers me most, is that I have been to the tip 8 times this week, clearing out all trace of under 12's and general de-cluttering of sh*t and now I've got this!

No? no foxes? pmsl

But Momo, they lwove you , so you have to tweasure it

Sod off! Its horrid!

O M G! That fox! Surely to god, that is a joke, right? But, as we know, there's nowt stranger than folk! I've got some rather attractive woodcarved elephant lamp stands, that DH's grandad had made in Berma in the war. They have pride of place - under the bed!