I need to be a snowbird
I seriously need to become a Snowbird. You know...live up here in the Great "White" North during the nicest months and then take off to Florida or some other tacky tourist trap for the rest of the time and laze around on the beach and sip drinks garnished with chunks of pineapples and cherries and decorated by an umbrella...preferably served by a bit of eye candy of the male persuasion.
Seriously. How do these folks do it?
It's getting chilly here. I realize it is mid November and up until now we've had unseasonably warm weather...but darn it all...does it have to end?? There hasn't even been a snowflake fall yet and I'm already whining. Of course the kids are all gung ho for the snow to start. All they see is snow days off of school. I see freezing to the bones, white knuckle driving and endless dirty snow and shoveling.
I'm just a grump today.
The issues with the staff at the After School Program have not completely gone away. The Principal requested a meeting with me today and gave me her views on my staff's behaviour. There is one early childhood educator in particular that has her hackles up and she's impossible to deal with. I've resigned from the board because of her and now the Principal wants us to put her in her place. I've called a meeting of the board for next Monday to see how to handle this. She needs to be reprimanded. The question is...who is going to do it and how are we going to approach it without the staff member in question walking out on us...leaving us with 30 children in a daycare with not enough staff. We have to tread lightly. She has us over a barrell in a way. Trouble is...she knows it.
In other news I am planning to construct and hide a positively wicked geocache. It will consist of a garbage can (clean of course). The garbage can will be suspended from a tree. The cachers will see that and think they've hit the mother lode. When they get the garbage can down and take off the lid they will find a big blue water cooler bottle. Inside the water cooler bottle will be 54 prescription vials. Each vial will have a playing card in it (52 cards plus 2 jokers). The log book that they have to sign will be in one of those vials. So they will have to shake them out of the water cooler bottle (they only come out one at a time), check each one to see if it contains the log and if not, shake out the next one...and so on until they get the right one. Did I mention the prescription vials have child proof caps?
Yeah, it will be a fun one for me to watch (I'm going to hide it on the back of my property down by the highway, so I could watch from a window in the house if I wanted to) but I imagine the air will be a bright blue.
I LOVE it.
*evil grin*
Seriously. How do these folks do it?
It's getting chilly here. I realize it is mid November and up until now we've had unseasonably warm weather...but darn it all...does it have to end?? There hasn't even been a snowflake fall yet and I'm already whining. Of course the kids are all gung ho for the snow to start. All they see is snow days off of school. I see freezing to the bones, white knuckle driving and endless dirty snow and shoveling.
I'm just a grump today.
The issues with the staff at the After School Program have not completely gone away. The Principal requested a meeting with me today and gave me her views on my staff's behaviour. There is one early childhood educator in particular that has her hackles up and she's impossible to deal with. I've resigned from the board because of her and now the Principal wants us to put her in her place. I've called a meeting of the board for next Monday to see how to handle this. She needs to be reprimanded. The question is...who is going to do it and how are we going to approach it without the staff member in question walking out on us...leaving us with 30 children in a daycare with not enough staff. We have to tread lightly. She has us over a barrell in a way. Trouble is...she knows it.
In other news I am planning to construct and hide a positively wicked geocache. It will consist of a garbage can (clean of course). The garbage can will be suspended from a tree. The cachers will see that and think they've hit the mother lode. When they get the garbage can down and take off the lid they will find a big blue water cooler bottle. Inside the water cooler bottle will be 54 prescription vials. Each vial will have a playing card in it (52 cards plus 2 jokers). The log book that they have to sign will be in one of those vials. So they will have to shake them out of the water cooler bottle (they only come out one at a time), check each one to see if it contains the log and if not, shake out the next one...and so on until they get the right one. Did I mention the prescription vials have child proof caps?
Yeah, it will be a fun one for me to watch (I'm going to hide it on the back of my property down by the highway, so I could watch from a window in the house if I wanted to) but I imagine the air will be a bright blue.
I LOVE it.
*evil grin*