Staff Room: Chooseday

[NumberFour]

If I had a choice, I would still be in bed!!!

Morning all!

Morning, its not so cold here this morning.

Shorter week for me this week, finishing Friday lunchtime, as we are going to a wedding in the afternoon.

Morning,

Dh might be home tomorrow am, if I had a choice I would like him home now!!

Not working until 3.15 today, so need to get to Tesco (get some food in for dh that doesn't consist of rice or noodles - pasta? ), get ds3 to nursery and then home for an expected phone call at 10.15.

Have a good day everyone

Shoshe, lucky you!! I am really looking forward to 19 Dec: last day at work for 2 weeks (but i have agreed to have a 4 year old boy for 22 and 23 Dec - every little helps, as they say, especially seeing the one I gave notice to has not paid )

Mums, bet you are like a kid in a candy store! No doubt you will be off line for a while tomorrow ??

Only got a 4 day week next week as well, as DH xmas do is Tuesday night so have taken Wednesday off, have always worked before, but thought this year, Sod it, I have only taken a week off this year so far.

No4 - me too, I want my bed. Baby was up most of the night after being poorly during the day (temp got to 104.4/40.2). I wasn't well myself as through up at 1.15am!!! grrrr I'm fed up with bugs etc!!!

Shoshe - enjoy your short weeks

Mums - oh fab, how long since you saw him?

Have a good day everyone.

Morning all! Its soooooo cold and I've lost my gloves! No mindees here yet but waiting for the door to go! Getting on the bus with mindees today as only got older ones! They will LOVE it! And good for knowledge and understanding of the world

catch up later

i thought it was Tuesday so i opened the Chooseday staff room

See? told you i needed more sleep

Good morning.

My fingers and toes are still cold from the school run. So going to have a nice hot drink with biccics to warm up , will leave some on the table for you all.

Doing a xmas craft with mindee this morning before going back to school for lunchtime pick up. Only 3 more lunchtime pick ups after today .

Enjoy yourselves today.

HI All, just one mindee this morn, now sleeping, one od poorly then one coming 11.30 and another 1.00!..so we're having a craft day seeing as we dont have to do afternoon nursery drop off!

..am losing 11.30 mindee though..mum has not discovered she isnt eligable for child care tax credit, so is finishing her little job friday...have another prob, will start a thread so i dont overtake the staff room!

Looney, it was 9 weeks yesterday when dh flew to hong kong. Have spoken to him nearly everyday, but its not the same. Sent him an email this am asking if there was anything specific he wanted from tesco - he asked for lemsip max strength flu relief!!

Pink - sorry to hear that you are losing a mindee. Have a good craft day and I will look for your other post.

Everyone have a good day

hi everyone - i'm only working one day a week on a casual basis right now could really do with more work but haven't had a phonecall for ages
ds starts school in sept so i will try and find other work then as childminding hasn't really worked out for me, plus i feel the need to get out more and talk to grown-ups!

please will you take a look at this link and if you like my design - number 15 vote for me plus there are lots of ideas there for last minute christmassy crafts!

Vi, i keep clicking on vote but it just refreshes the page??

pinkchick - to vote you just have to leave a comment at the bottom with the number of entry you like

i'm not here i'm doing my tax return . . . .ok ok i'm putting it off

...i have 3 mindees FAST asleep !!!!

wow - enjoy!

I gave notice to one mindee on 19 Nov, lost another a week later because she was originally supposed to go to after school club and now have just been given notice on third child also going to after school club!!!

lost 3 kids in less than a month.

that's over £600 a month

oh f*ck

oh no Number4..thats totally crap
really hope it picks up for you asap!

one mindees gone home now, other two stilla sleep, have just hid all dd's christmas presents away and having a quick 5 mins before i have to wake them both and swap them over into my double pushchair for school run!

Oh no number four! Hope you find some nice new mindees soon.

I am fed up of saying 'in a minute' or 'you will have to wait' to one of my mindees.

Sorry No4 , fingers crossed that something comes along for you quickly

thanks, everyone.

i nearly cried when I told DH but he was very matter of fact about it, thankfully

Mums, not sure about the 17th yet.

Mumsa thanks for explaining, feel awful for being so nosey yesterday

Been making 'Xmas Puddings' with tissue paper today- gold for the pudding, yellow for the custard (we don't refer to brandy sauce do we) green for the holly and 3 red berries.

They look fab

Thought I'd pop in quickly whilst waiting for ds's dinner to cool down. Well, I finished at 2.30pm today as asked one mindees mum to pick up early and she picked up even earlier than I asked, bless her. And she doesn't want a refund as I got the bug from her dd - bless. The extra mindee I now have finishes at 2.30pm anyway, the other toddler mindee was off today and I cancelled the school run mindee. There was me thinking I'd actually try and rest for a bit as although not been sick again, got horrible pains in tummy and waves of feeling sick. Well, no chance! Ds1 obviously bored as used to being at school so he wanted to do this that and the other and has no idea what 'mummy really isn't well' means! . I really hope ds2 sleeps tonight as looks like I'm back on again tomorrow and don't think I could cope with feeling crap AND not sleeping another night!

Mums - wow, that's a long time!! Bet you'll have some catching up to do!!

Hope those who are loosing mindees have some luck filling spaces soon. Hard times isn't it

Toys - I'd love to see pics, they sound fab!

Right, best start clearing up and stuff. Dh was supposed to take over and do ds1's dinner and stuff but got held up at work and now stuck in big traffic problem so won't be back for some time. Lucky I cancelled the course I was due to go on otherwise I'd never have made it!

By the way, if anyone is able to help with this thread i'd be very grateful - getting myself in a bit of a state if I'm to be honest.