Saturday, March 28, 2009

Defining Moments

Defining moment = a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
Today I watched the movie Pearl Harbor. Granted, not the world's greatest movie, but it got me thinking - what a defining moment for a generation! They had two choices: to shrink and cower in submission or to stand up and fight. What strength, what fortitude, what courage! Their defining moment shaped the course of this nation.
This brings me to my point - what is this generation's defining moment?

Friday, March 27, 2009

Crappy week!

Here's a little rundown of the amazingly awful week that I had:

Monday
Had to wake up at 5:00 a.m. so I could open the daycare by 6:00 a.m. Had two people call in sick so instead of being able to leave at 3:00 I had to stay until 7:00 p.m. If you can do math, that's 13 hours. The only good thing that will come of this is I'm getting some major overtime.

Tuesday
I walk out to my car at lunch time to discover that someone hit my car. Did they leave a note? No. So guess who gets to pay for this - ME! Guess whose insurance rate is going up because of this - MINE! As if my financial situation wasn't pressing enough, now I have to come up with a $500 deductible to get my brand new car fixed. Boo!

Wednesday
Today one of my teachers comes to me in tears because one of the kids is acting out. Unfortunately, it was one of the other teachers kids so that teacher comes to me livid and threathens to quit because she thinks the other teacher is singling her child out and that he's not being treated fairly. Oy! No more drama please!

Thursday
This day was going fairly well until another teacher found out that I had let said horrible child be with his mother instead of with the other teacher. Then she storms in the office and is horribly rude and apparently goes on to swear in front of the children. Yay, now I get to write her up for inappropriate behavior. Barf!

Friday
Another teacher comes in and tells me of a situtation that had occured the day before with one of the other teachers where she basically left her kids alone for an hour and two kids tipped their cribs over and got nasty bruises on their heads. Yay now I get to do two write ups and it's only 11. What else could possibly go wrong? Now I'm just waiting to go home and see my house on fire!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Things I've Learned From Two Year Olds

For the past few months I've worked at a daycare teaching the 2 year old preschool class. I know I'm supposed to be the teacher, but I've learned so much from them. The following are little bits of wisdom that I've picked up:

1. Eating is hard work!




2. If you're in a pinch and need to paint your face orange, spaghetti sauce works quite nicely!



3. Science tip of the day: jeans + slide = static electricity.






4. If you ever run out of gel, smashing strawberries in your hair is effective (and smells quite nice as well)!




5. You're never too young to be informed about current events!




6. A Binkie and a blankie make the world a whole lot better!




7. Two year olds can also function as guard dogs!



8. There's nothing like coming home to a nice warm bath after a long day at daycare.