Back to work today, gawd it was tough getting up. The picture to the left says a lot about how my first day back went. I was full of motivation and drive to get all my jobs done, but it just wasn't to be today.


I prepared our termly newsletter before the Christmas break. Got in this morning, gave it the once over and sent it off to our print unit to get 60 copies. Not only did it get past me, it got past my deputy, who proof read it and it got past the girls at the print unit. See if you can spot the mistake! :-P


Spent lots of time with the children this morning. I love to hear their stories about all the nice things they've done and especially about their special visitor over Christmas. It was a bit of a wrench for some of them, we've had quite a long time off, so leaving mum or dad was a little hard for a few, so extra cuddles were at the top of the job list today. One little boy's older brother came in today, he must be nearly 6 now. I was chatting to him whilst his mum settled his brother into Nursery. We were chatting mostly about Christmas. when suddenly he said "what I don't understand is, how does Father Christmas get down the chimney when the fire is on". Hmmmm quite a difficult question for 8.30am and one I really needed to get right. So after being fairly speechless for a few seconds, I said that most people turned their fires off on Christmas Eve and those that didn't, FC had to use his extra special magic powers. He seemed quite happy with that answer and went off out with his mum chatting about the plane he had in his hand.



So then, after a while I decided it really was time for me to hit the office and get some sort of work done today. The mess on my desk was already starting to build up. --------------------------->
First job of the day was to get the tippex out and attempt to rectify my earlier mistake. :-P Then eventually getting round to completing a few other jobs that I needed to do.
Covered in the baby room at lunchtime today, which isn't a hardship, the babies are great fun. Only 5 babies to feed today, then change and get ready for either the afternoon session or going home at 1pm. I'm a very hands on boss, like to do my fair share of tasks and did I get my fair share today. Just after lunch I was comforting a little boy from our 2-3 year old room, there was obviously a problem, but with the lack of communication skill s which he has, it was hard to decipher what his needs were. However, I soon realised. My leg suddenly got very warm. Need I say more. So that was my next challenge for the day. Peg at the ready (joke), disposible gloves and plenty of wet wipes were needed. I had to laugh though, just as I was moving the postman pat undergarments towards the toilet, somebody stopped in the doorway to ask me something, which wasn't the best timing in the world. Cow pat springs to mind. Actually I reckon if I took a picture it would have been perfect for this blog............OK, maybe not. lol!
The rest of the afternoon was filled with more office work and then eventually at 5.30pm home time.
Exciting day, eh? Bring on tomorrow! Ha! xx