Good Friday....Are You Off?

[laundryduchess@yahoo.com]

Im off and next week is our vacation (spring break). I have my days off listed as follows. The parents think I dont get paid for my vacation but several years ago I began putting 3 dollars a week from each family towards my vacation fund. =-) makes for a nice little paycheck on that week. ,....

September 4, 2009 #1 Paid Personal Day
September 7, 2009 Labor Day - Paid Holiday
October 30, 2009 #2 Paid Personal Day
November 26, 2009 Thanksgiving - Paid Holiday
November 27, 2009 #3 Paid Personal Day
December 25, 2009 Christmas Day - Paid Holiday
January 1, 2010 New Years Day - Paid Holiday
January 18, 2010 OPEN used to close on this day
February 15, 2010 Presidents Day - Paid Holiday
April 2, 2010 Good Friday - Paid Holiday
April 5-9, 2010 closed for vacation - unpaid
May 7, 2010 Childcare Provider Appreciation Day - Paid Holiday
May 31, 2010 Memorial Day - Paid Holiday
May 28, 2010 #4 paid personal Day (Chris Graduates High School!)
July 2or5 will announce when Jason’s work does Independence Day - Paid Holiday
August 2-6 2010, closed for vacation - unpaid

I will be closed the day before the first day of school for the 2010/2011 school year for #5 of my 5 paid personal days. This will be around August 10 , 2010. I will give you the exact date as soon as I find out.

[Former Teacher]

I'm off from my regular kiddos tomorrow (all have teacher parents who have the day off anyway) - but I'm having a pizza/bowling party in the afternoon for my "alumni" kids ---all those kids that grew-up in my daycare and are now in middle/high school and no longer need "daycare". ...and no longer see all of their friends that they grew up with here. I'm so excited to see them all - and from what I hear from them, they"re all excited too:-)

Aww how sweet! I know its always a good feeling to me when I see a former "child" of mine who is all grown up. A few times I even shed a few tears ::

[Former Teacher]

Just wondering how many are closed on Good Friday. I am working. When I started my business over 10 years ago, I was closed, then I had moms from the medical group and hospital who had to work on Good Friday, so I took it off as a paid holiday. But, for the past 2 years, I have only had one or two here, so not really worth it in my opinion. I may be changing that.

What makes me mad is, parents who have it off, work at the school, are bringing their kids anyways. They are closing on a house and in her words "Have all these meetings and papers to sign". OMG, learn how to deal with your children. And what I don't get, when we closed on our house, the bank/realtor took care of everything and we didn't "Have all these meetings" to do. Yea, I know you sign papers and all, but she made it sound like they have several different meeting to go to. Some people will do anything to not be with their kids. Funny thing, school has been closed all week on Spring break....and these 2 kids have been here everyday.

This will be the first Good Friday in my entire adult life that I have to actually work haha. My former center was always closed. Now that I work for a private family. The company that mom works for is an international company and dad is a doctor in the military. They both are working that day. Oh well. Still love the job though::

[melissa ann]

I'm off. I'm going to be coloring easter eggs with my kids and going to Pizza hut for lunch, although they don't know the part of the pizza yet.

[gkids09]

I'm off...sort of...The kids won't be there, but I am painting the playroom this weekend!! Yay!! Can't wait to see their faces when they come in Monday!

[MN Mom]

I've been off since Tuesday at 4:30 and I won't have the children until next Thursday at 6:30am! Yay for 1 week vacations! I didn't expect it, but the parents decided to take 3 days of vacation time each and divide the children duties between them. I have SOOOO been enjoying this time with my children on Spring Break.

I do not have a contract (as this is just co-workers of my husband I'm caring for) nor do I intend to expand my services, so this is unpaid, but fine by me! 1 week of no baby screaming is a good trade-off imho!::

[Chickenhauler]

Just wondering how many are closed on Good Friday. I am working. When I started my business over 10 years ago, I was closed, then I had moms from the medical group and hospital who had to work on Good Friday, so I took it off as a paid holiday. But, for the past 2 years, I have only had one or two here, so not really worth it in my opinion. I may be changing that.

What makes me mad is, parents who have it off, work at the school, are bringing their kids anyways. They are closing on a house and in her words "Have all these meetings and papers to sign". OMG, learn how to deal with your children. And what I don't get, when we closed on our house, the bank/realtor took care of everything and we didn't "Have all these meetings" to do. Yea, I know you sign papers and all, but she made it sound like they have several different meeting to go to. Some people will do anything to not be with their kids. Funny thing, school has been closed all week on Spring break....and these 2 kids have been here everyday.

There is much, much, much more to closing on a house than slapping down a John Han**** on a few slips of paper. Especially if in your purchase agreement there is contingent items (fix this, paint that, repair this, clean that, etc).

Final pre-closing inspection? Try doing one of those with a toddler in tow. They're a PITA without kids.......at least a thorough one.

[mac60]

So, I ended up with only 3 children on Friday. No babies. The family I spoke of above did not come after all. Their deal went thru, and were not able to get 100% financing so no closing after all. The point of my post was parents who will find any and every reason to NOT be with their children. God forbid they may have to sit there and hold their baby, or make their 3 yr old behave, I don't care if they have to sign their name 5 times or 15. There is a lot more to having children than just the conceiving of them. They come to dc so mom can clean house, so mom can paint, so mom can blah blah blah. Mom has day off, they come to dc.