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Sounds like a great holiday!!

I had 2 four day weekends and found those were hard enough to get up on Mondays! Lol....I'm soooo not a morning person!

I need to decide my summer holidays but have to wait and see when/if we get any campsites.

I'm stArting the new year without my handful and down one child mon/tues's and I'm totally okay with that!!! I'm looking forward to some downtime....this group is so good, makes my job incredibly easy now!! My handful is coming back once every 6 weeks, so we'll see how those days go!! Lol
Good Luck with the handful. I had a good think over the break about my handful and if I wasn't finishing then I'd take the loss but I really need to figure out how to make this work. I think being away from him for an extended time has me forgetting what he is like though lol My daughter babysat him and his sister over the break and they were a dream, but that is a completely different environment and to be honest they usually are a handful so I think it was just a fluke. I actually think this guy is bored. I do a preschool program with him from lesson boxes I borrow from the resource library, but prior to December it has been really hard to do them as I was always shadowing or modifying behaviour. All going well, he will have a playmate of a similar stage of development and will make planned activities run smoother. One can hope anyway.

I have my Summer vacation booked already but I'm not sure whether I am going to finish then so don't want to give notice more than 1 month in advance, or if I'm going to enrol part time for my first semester just taking classes on Fridays which I don't currently work, and continue working till the end of the year. If the latter is my plan, then I would let parent's know now so they can arrange the 3 weeks cover but if I'm closing I don't want parents to up and leave early. That will result in my inability to tie things up financially and actually go to school. I am aiming to have firmed up my plans and have enrolled in classes by the end of this month but it's a dilemma I can't seem to decide on right now.