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I had been contemplating for a while asking my only full time DCM if I could close 2 days a month for personal appointments and for just plain "rest" days for my kids, since they, and myself, are getting overwhelmed with the long hours that DCG is here.
Anyway, I had decided that I would try to take a short vacation to ease my burn-out, so I thought our Canadian Thanksgiving next month would be ideal, since I'd be taking Monday as the holiday anyway...then only 4 vacation days from Tuesday to Friday. So, 5 days, plus 2 weekends I'd have been off anyway, giving me 9 straight days with no DCKs...a first in over a year! Nothing to sneeze at! The part time families had no issue with it. With the full time DCM, I was met with concern over alternate care during that week. I had already had back up care taken care of, she could still use her subsidy, and it is a close, personal friend of mine that I trust with my own kids. Ideal for her.
So she started crying, saying she understood that I need a vacation but that she needs to know...am I going to stop doing day care?! She is SO worried that I am going to bail and not keep doing child care after my vacation is up, and she suspects that the vacation is my "out". I assured her that things would not change, I just needed a break. That I could wait until Christmas to take a short vacation but that I might be too severely burned out by then and at that point may NOT want to keep doing it. I honestly *have* been toying around with stopping daycare but nothing serious. I just wanted a break!
Anyway, after having a discussion with her yesterday about DCG's recent behaviour toward the other children here (not a huge issue but she's really overly-friendly and in personal space a lot...and ends up hurting the younger kids inadvertently), I was approached this morning by DCM and she said, "Now honestly, I am worried I am going to lose you, so I don't want to overwork you. Is it okay if we went down to 4 or even 3 days a week?" I am screaming in my head, "NO! I need to be paid still!" but 4 days a week is okay. So, i am going to be closed on Mondays. :-D A 4 day work week is really going to help refresh me. happyface
Anyway, I had decided that I would try to take a short vacation to ease my burn-out, so I thought our Canadian Thanksgiving next month would be ideal, since I'd be taking Monday as the holiday anyway...then only 4 vacation days from Tuesday to Friday. So, 5 days, plus 2 weekends I'd have been off anyway, giving me 9 straight days with no DCKs...a first in over a year! Nothing to sneeze at! The part time families had no issue with it. With the full time DCM, I was met with concern over alternate care during that week. I had already had back up care taken care of, she could still use her subsidy, and it is a close, personal friend of mine that I trust with my own kids. Ideal for her.
So she started crying, saying she understood that I need a vacation but that she needs to know...am I going to stop doing day care?! She is SO worried that I am going to bail and not keep doing child care after my vacation is up, and she suspects that the vacation is my "out". I assured her that things would not change, I just needed a break. That I could wait until Christmas to take a short vacation but that I might be too severely burned out by then and at that point may NOT want to keep doing it. I honestly *have* been toying around with stopping daycare but nothing serious. I just wanted a break!
Anyway, after having a discussion with her yesterday about DCG's recent behaviour toward the other children here (not a huge issue but she's really overly-friendly and in personal space a lot...and ends up hurting the younger kids inadvertently), I was approached this morning by DCM and she said, "Now honestly, I am worried I am going to lose you, so I don't want to overwork you. Is it okay if we went down to 4 or even 3 days a week?" I am screaming in my head, "NO! I need to be paid still!" but 4 days a week is okay. So, i am going to be closed on Mondays. :-D A 4 day work week is really going to help refresh me. happyface
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