A Canadian in America...

So many children!

Well, after that large snowfall last night, I decided to get up a few minutes early to make sure that I got to work on time this morning. It worked. I got there early, even. They plow the roads here. It's nice. Anyhow, the one problem that I had this morning was that I had to scrape my windows, and they weren't being very cooperative. I'm grateful to Eric's dad for digging out my car before snowplowing this morning, so that saved me some time. I'm seriously considering a remote car starter so it makes life a little easier in the mornings. Oh wait, I had another problem this morning. I was pulling out of the driveway and I ended up having to go left instead of right because the driveway was very slippery and my brakes were not working properly. It was pure instinct to go left instead of right, probably because left turns are wider so if I had turned right I probably would have spun out, or hit the ditch! Anyhow, so I think I had ice lodged in my breaks or wheel wells or somehing, because my brakes were feeling funny. You know how ABS brakes kind of push back in a pulsing way? Well, my brakes were doing that and they are not ABS. I was a little concerned. Luckily there was no traffic in the neighbourhood so I pumped my brakes lots and pumped them hard, and that seemed to do the trick. Then, when I went out to my car tonight, I noticed all the ice lodged by my tires!!!! I had fun kicking it all out.
Today was a very long day. I was in my class by myself with my seven kidlets....that's always hard, but what made it worse was one my my babies fell and hit her head really hard on the doorframe. She has a large goose egg now, and I had to phone dad. She was doing okay, but she had kind of a rough morning, and was easily upsettable. She started crying really hard before lunch, sat down on the carpet and promptly vomited. Poor thing. We took her temperature and she was running one so we had to send her home. I felt so bad!!!!!
Then, while I was in my room, my boss came up to my and told me that I had to stay for the evening for Parents night out. I didn't mind. Basically, we offer the night to the parents and they pay us for keeping their children at the center until 11:00. The money is divided amongst the teachers that work the evening! I made $136. Not bad for 4.5 hours. We would have made more, but we had to have five teachers because we had a few babies and a couple of toddlers, so ratio was a little bit lower. Obviously we would have made more money if there had been less teachers! Oh well. We ate pizza, played games and watched movies. EASY money!!!!!
Wow, I guess I had lots to say. Hopefully I didn't bore you all to death:):):)

posted by Jo @ Saturday, December 10, 2005