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59 more for me!
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5 and half more days!! …But each day is so unbearably long!! . ..I feel like I’m in the middle of the lake and too tired to swim to the shore… holding my breath!
I think my happy dance will only happen on the last hour of next Friday. Literally, “I can’t wait”!!!! I also think the week after I will be in “bed rest” (and I’m not joking…)
Thank you... it does help to have company on the countdown. happyfaceComment
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2 Weeks, 2 days. I can't wait! :-)Comment
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Jealous reading this! I have such a long way to go.
I will miss my kids like crazy but I need to get out of this house!!! 
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lovethis Thank you for asking... I am starting to see "the light" at the end of the tunnel!! :
: 3 more very long days!!!
Still struggling... tired, body aches, lightheaded and dizzy...takes me close to 5 hours after kids leave to go back to feeling rested and well/motivated again.
I can't wait for this to be over and go back to my old self again. I don't like the tired/stressed "old daycare lady" I became. I want my joyful, spontaneous, adventurous/outgoing ME back in my life. Shoo away "daycare lady"!!!Comment
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I hope they pass quickly for you!lovethis Thank you for asking... I am starting to see "the light" at the end of the tunnel!! :: 3 more very long days!!!
Still struggling... tired, body aches, lightheaded and dizzy...takes me close to 5 hours after kids leave to go back to feeling rested and well/motivated again.
I can't wait for this to be over and go back to my old self again. I don't like the tired/stressed "old daycare lady" I became. I want my joyful, spontaneous, adventurous/outgoing ME back in my life. Shoo away "daycare lady"!!!
I feel like an old daycare lady too, and I am only in my 30's. This job just makes me tired and kind of cranky on the inside. I don't have energy at the end of the day for my own kids. I want to smile again--with my whole face--not a fake one to get through the day...Comment
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I just let two kids go yesterday and won't be replacing them.
Once the oldest 2 kids I have in my care age out I am shutting down shop ( They are 10 now and will be 11 in September...not sure if DCPS are planning on keeping them in care next year or not but if so next year will be my last and if not then I will be done in August.)
I can't wait to be done. I stopped enjoying doing daycare a long time ago and will be so glad to just have my house back.
Daycare has changed who my own children have become and it has affected my relationship with them. I just want to be a SAHM.
I have been putting away $ for awhile now with the idea of being able to just relax at home with my own kids until my youngest starts grade 1.
The thought of being done sooner than later gets me through the long afternoons and puts a smile on my face when I am feeling overwhelmed...
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55 more days! Can't wait. 11 more weeks. 11 more Mondays. 11 more Fridays. 11 more weeks of excuses, special requests, and headaches.
Then it is all over...and I can go back to being the person I am supposed to be!Comment
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So kids behaviors can be challenging sometimes but when my 7 year old daughter comes from school they do get out of control and the 2 last hours of the day puts a lot of emotional stress on me because I want to give attention to my own daughter and at the same time I have to keep reprimanding her (and sometimes I have to do so in front of other parents… and this hurts like stabbing myself) in order to keep things in control.
So because of that I’ve been sending, most of the days lately, my daughter upstairs to her room to do homework, watch some tv and rest while I do my job… this upsets her every time. And so I did this yesterday too. Than after pm snack I dressed all kids to go to the garden play while waiting for parents. I had just finished putting on the last coat and was walking to the garden exit when some parents came in to pick up kids. Me all happy thinking – “great… 2 kids go home and I only have to keep safe 3 kids in the garden”. Well, one grandparent came with the kid’s aunt+and the kid’s older sister+and the kid’s teenage cousin and instead of taking the already dressed kid to the car… the whole family just followed us to the garden instead!!!! The other mother that came in at the same time+the older sister of another kid, just followed us too!!! My head – “ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!???”!!!!
So now I have to keep in control my 5 younger kids+3 out of control almost teenagers giving all sorts of bad examples and using my outdoor equipment not appropriate for this big kids ages, while I have to keep a smile while talking with these other 3 grownups that want to be watching this show for another 30 minutes. And then… I looked up to my daughter’s bedroom window and she was looking at me washed in tears. My heart broke again and again and again over and over again during those 30 minutes. I was yelling inside “Go home people!! This is my daughter’s house!!!! She’s the one that should be playing in these gardens and your kids should be driving home now!!!! She should not have to be set apart in her own house so your kids won’t behave out of control!! And now I have to also deal with these teenagers out of control while my daughter is excluded in tears in her room!!!! GET OUT NOW!!!!”
But instead I had to keep smiling while crying inside. I know if I had told her to come out these older kids would stay longer and younger kids would get even more out of control …and all I really needed is for these families to leave right NOW!!!
So me and my daughter just kept crying, each of us in our own way, until these families left. Then I signed with a hand for my daughter to come out and play with the one kid that was still remaining with me. I hugged many times my daughter while saying “I’m so sorry mommy had to put you through this!”
Too many times my “mother heart” has been broken while trying to take care of other families’ kids. I was so blinded by the vision of what I wanted my daycare to be and the financial stability it would bring to our lives in the future in the event of my husband have a serious accident someday that I missed to see how it was harming my present life and my family. It was until my daughter’s last school winter recess that the veil fell off like a water fall and I realized that when you work from home you put your whole family and specially your kid trough the same stresses you go through … and I’ve been stressed since forever!!
Being a good daycare provider made me less of a good mother!
Most of you might fail to understand the pain I feel in situations like the one described above… but, 2 more days and IT’S OVER!!!!!Comment
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This is it!!!!
The last day I have to get up at 5 am for the daycare kids!!happyface
... and I still have all the kids... and some of the parents are having good Friday off but still are bringing the kids to my care... So egg boiling and egg decorating and egg hunting it is the plan for today... order pizza and give candies away...
As soon as the last kid leaves, I'll drive to a beauty salon and spend some money trying to not look like the "stressed daycare lady" anymore!!!! I'll also get a nice outfit for the Easter Sunday Lunch with my extended family and I'll find my old happy smile in the process.
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So excited for you! Happy Last Day to you!!!!!!! I will have a toast in your honor today at 4:00 ~ anyone want to join me? Virtual ChEeRs!!!Comment
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