No Stress

Well, that's what I'm hoping for at least. Truth is, I am stressed. There's 3 reasons for this...

1st: February is licensing month for us. The licensing guy can show up at any time during the month of February. We're all hoping he comes this week. The boss is beyond wigged out right now and snapping at everybody. Staff, parents, her husband, the kids, everybody. We just want it to be done and over with ASAP so that we can stop walking around on egg shells.

2nd: My 2nd assistant quit. Just up and quit. She had valid reasons, which I won't get into here, but it's put us in quite the bind. We're over ratio by 2 every day. This doesn't really affect the running of the classroom, or the lesson plans, or really anything within the structure of our day. However, licensing wise it looks bad. Really bad. If we get written up for it, which we probably will be, we have 30 days to fix the problem and then the licensing guy will be back. Problem is, with 30 days to interview, hire, and train a new 2nd assistant, we run the risk of hiring somebody just because we're desperate. This is bad news for everybody involved.

3rd: Next Monday I'm getting 4 new kids. They've been signed up for awhile. We were fine, ratio wise, until the 2nd assistant quit. Now, with these new kids starting we'll be over by 6. I have no kids I can move to the next level--they're all too young. If we move them now it changes the ratio requirements for the next room and they'll be over ratio as well.

Additionally, with these 4 new kids I have name tags, coat hook tags and cubbies to finish for them as well as a 6 page assessment on each of them. The name tags, coat hook tags and cubbies have to be done before they start. The assessments have to be completely within a week of their starting date.

So it looks like February will be a month of stress. I just hope the licensing guy doesn't come during our Valentine's Day party. Knowing my luck though, he probably will.