Discovered I’m not the only one to have put my notice in this week – the guy who started a month or so after me will be leaving two days before me. Sooner or later they are going to notice that they aren’t doing so well at keeping staff – there’s a lot of ppl left in the last few months. But there you go. Two of my team are on holiday this week and so don’t even know yet – the project managers who have found out have been uniformly annoyed while understanding, which at least makes me feel I did make a little difference there.

But I’m going to get to get my hands on all those cool montessori materials, how could playing with a computer all day possibly compare? I was drooling over the maths corner last night and it became rapidly clear that having a member of staff who likes maths and feel comfortable with it is going to be a popular idea with the other children’s house staff 🙂

Last night was a very disrupted night for sleep – Big had come home with a headache, and she isn’t used to them so was being very weepy and pathetic about it all. She was up a couple of times in the night and then one of our beloved neighbours was picked up by a mate at 6.11am who decided he couldn’t possibly get out of the car (it was probably cold) but instead just leaned on the horn. All of this meant that when Big came in to say she still didn’t feel well, I was really happy to roll over and go back to sleep for a bit and then work from home while they vegged watching tv all day. I think they are working on memorising the batman scripts 😀 Small did a lot of creative things with duplo as well, making batcopters, batcars, robin, batman (have you spotted the theme yet?)

And now I’m going to go run them a bath and hope I can shake myself out of this odd mood. Not cheerful tonight, and I’m not altogether sure why. Hohum.


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  1. I hope you’ll re-inspire me, i did love myself in the montessori days and i’m nearly out of little people to do them on 🙁

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