THURSDAY...

[Diane]

What a beautiful day!!! I woke up thismorning to the sun shining in my window and the birds singing... I am SO ready for the "really" nice weather... 70's. It looks like a promising weekend too... sure hope so.

What I'm not looking forward to is having to give notice to one of my day care parents. I've only had this child for about a 1-1/2 months and he's just not working out. That and all of the other kids won't really open the door and let him totally in. He's the first new kid I've had in over 2 years and I guess my group likes it the way it was. Anyway, it's a constant battle and last night I decided it just wasn't worth it. Ugh... What makes it hard is that his mom is SOOO nice. It's hard GETTING notice but sometimes I think it's even harder having to give it. LOL

We have a concert at dd's school tonight so I already know how I'll be spending my evening. I'm looking forward to having an excuse to sit and do nothing. :)

Anyway, I hope you all are experiencing nice weather... and have a GREAT day!

Diane P.~

[kat]

Today is a little cloudy. A front has moved in, but it is still about 50. We've been in mid 60's for past 2 days. Yesterday I even opend my windows. Of course I had to wear a sweater, but LOVED having the windows open. I've got to take the dog in for a grooming and thought I swing by school to do lesson plans and put up new bulletin boards. Also need to tidy up all the center activities I had set up for P/T conferences before Spring Break. Then I need to finish the mountain of ironing I started yesterday. Got Dh and ds's stuff done, but still need to do mine. I like my things starched and I was out.

Today is our anniversary so Dh and I are going to eat at Fat Tuesday's which I hear is fabulous. I hope.

Well, Diane, I guess the good thing about your situation is you get to remove a child who isn't working out. Rarely can that be done in school. Once I was the recipient of a child who was moved from another teacher's room to mine. Of course the child's problem was "the teacher". The child is now in alternative school and all the teachers that this child ever had are "the scum of the earth" LOL. Any way, best of luck in what I'm sure will be a dificult task.

[beth c]

Hi everyone!! It is foggy here this morning. We had a thunderstorm pass thru last nite-kind of rare for Colorado in March.
Today is my day to volunteer in the boys classrms. I am getting my hair cut this morning. My sil is coming for coffee so it doesn't look like I will get alot of cleaning done. Oh well there is always tomorrow. Zach is wrestling tonite so that is how I will be spending my evening.
Diane - good luck on the daycare situation. It is hard but it is for the best for the child if he isn't fitting in w/your kids. I will be thinking of you.
Have a great day!! :)

[angie r]

It is another BEEautiful day here. In the 50's and clear as can be. I am taking dk's bowling this afternoon. We have never bowled before, I hope it is fun for all of us. Dh is in Boston until Sunday and I am missing him soooooooo much. I don't know how some of you moms/wives do this all the time. I am guessing you get used to it if you have to. My dh was only gone 4 hours before I was missing him terribly.

Other than bowling I will still be trying to get through to Oprah "tickets." A friend of mine and I tried all day long yesterday. We even took a cell phone to the park and tried the whole time we were there.

Have an awesome day everyone!!

[RCT]

its sounded like someone was spraying my house with a hose....LOL...we have a metal roof...it was funny....half the snow is gone in my yard....very weird to see my garden stones again...muddy though....rainy and cold here today, clouds could hold more snow, but lets hope its just ice rain....LOL....dd and I are going to play house upstairs in a little while, she had a great time yesterday at daycare with her dad...LOL...he sounded like he enjoyed himself too.....but was very tired when the evening started to end...LOL....More power to you DianeP...that must be hard but you know your gang of kids and why ask for more work.....I sure had a great day off yesterday...but now I need to get my but moving again....need to clean out the upstairs bathroom....dh poured laytex paint water in my shower upstairs, and well it won't come off the fiberglass or whatever those surounds are made of....so scrub brush here I come....

take care all, and have a great Thursday...

[Diane]

Originally posted by kat
Today is a little cloudy. A front has moved in, but it is still about 50. We've been in mid 60's for past 2 days. Yesterday I even opend my windows. Of course I had to wear a sweater, but LOVED having the windows open.

Today is our anniversary so Dh and I are going to eat at Fat Tuesday's which I hear is fabulous. I hope.

Well, Diane, I guess the good thing about your situation is you get to remove a child who isn't working out. Rarely can that be done in school. Once I was the recipient of a child who was moved from another teacher's room to mine. Of course the child's problem was "the teacher". The child is now in alternative school and all the teachers that this child ever had are "the scum of the earth" LOL. Any way, best of luck in what I'm sure will be a dificult task.



I opened my window's up yesterday too... the fresh air smelled so good! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY... how many years? Hope you have a great time out tonight. I've never heard of Fat Tuesday's... what kindo of food do they serve?

I've often said that it's a good thing that I'm not a teacher... At least if a child doesn't work out for me I always have the option of letting them go, I don't HAVE to keep them and deal with it. I also know that the mother is going to be VERY disappointed. Her ds does not hold the same interests that my dck's do. While he likes/enjoys more freeplay (mostly running) my kids enjoy doing more quiet things like coloring, play doh, painting, puzzles, beading, listening and dancing to tapes. I told his mom that he might do better in an environment that was less structured than mine because he didn't want to do the things I had to offer. She responded by telling me that it was too bad that HE didn't want to do these things... SHE wanted him to do these things. She wants him settled down and I think she expects me to be the one to do it. When he's been bad at my house she takes him home and makes him spend the ENTIRE night in his bedroom... supper included. Ugh!!!!! I definitely don't agree that this is the way it should be handled... but then again, it's really none of my business. He's not mine. LOL She's very nice and I think means well, but I'd rather not be the one not responsible for straightening out his behavior. Anyway... I'd better stop now while I'm ahead. I'm expecting them in any minute and I'm dreading it! I'm thinking I'll wait and do it until she comes to pick him up... :) (procrastinating LOL)

Again... Happy Anniversary! :)

Diane P.~



[Edited by Diane P. on 03-22-2001 at 09:34 AM]

[KarlaB]

Sounds like everyone has busy and/or fun days planned. I am going to try to get started on sme cleaning as soon as I get caught up here. :)

Diane - Good luck when you talk to the mom tonight. That is never an easy position to be in and hopefully she'll be understanding. Let us know how it goes!

Kat - Happy Anniversary! Enjoy going out to eat tonight! :)

Angie - We love bowling. If you call ahead they can put "bumpers" in the sides of the lanes so the dks don't get lots of gutter balls. That always helps my score, too! LOL!

[Amy]

Hi all! The past two days here have been WONDERFUL! Its been sunny and 70 degrees. I even had shorts on! Its expected to be nice here again today. It makes dh leaving a bit easier. He leaves on Tuesday.

Dd has her school play tonight. Its the first one dh has been able to go too. Im not sure who is more excited. LOL

Diane-I feel for you. It is no fun playing the bad guy. That is why my boss is putting me in charge of the staff training. He doesn't want the girls to hate him. LOL What he doesn't know is that Im going to the staff meeting armed with bagels and schmeers! As they are stuffing their faces, they won't resent my recommendations as badly. ROFL!!

Kat-Happy anniversary!!

Angie-you wimp. ROFL! A week without dh would be a vacation for me! lOL

Well its off to wash my car and go shopping. Have a great day everyone!

[Boons]

Good morning everyone! It's cloudy here but at least the rain has stopped which makes me extremely happy. If the sun would just show face I'd be a bit happier!

Diane- that child sounds like my 4 yr old son. He's not into quiet play either. He doesn't misbehave he just requires a lot of open space to run and spread things around. When he colors he literally can spread the project out over an entire room. I was sort of like that as a child and so I think maybe it's inherited LOL! But, what she does by making him spend the entire night in his room DOUBLE UGH! It certainly isn't your job to try to "change" him - can I ask how old he is?

As for our day well no real plans here. My husband works non traditional hours so he actually is off work today and was the last 2 days. I think we are going to take them to the Train Museum here. Our oldest has taken a liking to trains so we are going to take him there and encourage his interest visually.

Have a good day everyone!

[Diane]

Well... either it finally sunk in to her what I said to her and she's not going to bring him back anymore OR... she just decided not to bring him TODAY. I didnt' even receive a phone call from her telling me what she's planning on doing either. Ugh!!! I guess I'm just going to sit back and enjoy my VERY quiet day... :) :) :)

He just turned 4 years old. He's not a "bad" kid but just has interests that are different than the rest of the children in my day care. I gear my day more towards "learning" than running and playing... although we DO have our moments. LOL It's a lot easier to control what's going on, who's where... doing what. This little boy's mother told me to MAKE him sit and color, paint and do puzzles because this is what he's going to have to do when he goes to school. I can definintely understand where she's coming from but you can't FORCE a child to like/enjoy doing something, and quite frankely... I'd much rather have my kids have fun while their here... not dread it. I don't know what she hopes to accomplish by keeping him in his room. All it "seems" to do is make him more active and crazy when he comes here and can finally move around. LOL

Hope you have fun at the Train Museum... sounds like a lot of fun. My FIL use to be into the trains big time and had a big "city" of tracks (houses, buildings... mountains, etc) built downstairs in his basement. LOL It wasn't fun taking that apart when we had to. :) Have fun!!! :)