Rough Week,,,, ALREADY!

This has been a crazy week and it's only Tuesday!
After my surgery, my school age teacher gave her two week notice. This Friday was to be her last day. She was sick 2 days last week and called me last minute to say she was sick. She worked yesterday,but was asking my Lead Teacher if the old school age teacher (who still substitutes for us) wanted her job back. She kept asking if we had substitutes to call in ,etc.
She is scheduled for 8am today. At 7 am i got a text message saying her nerves couldn't handle to school age room any more and couldn't work out her notice. I told her she was putting me in a bind because I have to transport early in the day. She said she was sorry but couldn't come back. UNBELIEVABLE! She doesn't even work in the school age room until 3pm. She is in a classroom with 2 kids from 8 am until 1pm (they both loeave early.) Then she gives a break, takes a break and cleans. I even offered to let her go home at 3pm and not work with the school age kids.
It is really aggrevating because I told her from the beginning I don't like to hire people with no child care experience. She begged and cried for the job and I gave her a chance. I have bent over backward to help her, move her to another classroom and help her with her school work (child care class). So, this time around, I am hiring some one with experience, even if I have to wait for a few weeks to find them. I have a few substitutes that will help us get through. We are a little down on kids, especially in the toddler room, so we have not needed 3 teachers all day.

We had snow this morning as well. We got a pretty good amount, but it didn;t stick to the roads. Sadly, no 2 hour delay, no closed schools, no early release. Sadness.

On the up side, I've had 4 calls for the school age job. Only one had experience. I have an interview at 330pm. I had a girl fill out an application yesterday, but we only can offer her a substitute position because she has no experience. Working as a sub she will gain experience and we can hire her later as a teacher.

We are still working out whether to go to Florida or not. I am pretty sure I can cover the center, but the cost of gas is the problem. We will be driving the truck, which is diesel, which obviously costs more. I love going to the beach with the kids, but we will see what works out.

Jonelle, our amusing child

Jonelle has kept us laughing this week. Yesterday she asked me who Jesus' mom was. I told her Mary was. She said, "oh so God and Mary are married?" I said, "not exactly". She said "they got a divorce?" I said, "NO!" so then she thinks a minute and says, "so God just magically put Jesus in Mary's tummy, then he divorced her. " I left it at that. really didn't want to explain the virgin birth to a 9 year old.

Today we went to bookfair and she got The Time Traveler's Journal. Its a huge book about different time periods. She comes and tells me, "Dragons were real once cause there's no way knights made up those fantastic beasts to just impress the ladies!"

She is hilarious. She really thinks outside the box and is so funny to listen to.