Nap Time Fun. If I Could Have One Wish For My DC It Would Be...

[Play Care]

Make is a designated daycare room with a small loft and centers. Right now I use my whole main level and while it's cozy, it limits what I'm willing to do with my kiddos. I refuse to hang the typical "daycare" stuff all over my living room. I have a play room, but at 8x10 feet, it's a bit small.

This! Our basement is finished but we never use it. Would love to move dc down there. I could do so much with toys, displays, centers, etc.

[Brooksie]

A bathroom on the first floor and a separate nap room!

[Heidi]

This! Our basement is finished but we never use it. Would love to move dc down there. I could do so much with toys, displays, centers, etc.

Why don't you then?

You can add an egress window, if you don't have a second exit. My friend did to make her dc compliant and it worked well.

If you live where it's cold, you'll need extra heat. There are child-safe ION heaters that work really well.

An apartment sized refrigerator, a microwave, and maybe a hotplate (or an electric fry pan) takes care of meals.

Just think of the fun you'd have with "kid' decorating while the rest of your house looks like a grown-ups.

FYI-we have a finished basement, but our master suite is down there (half exposed), and has been since before I did daycare. Also, our family room, which is in reality my dh's man-cave. He'll put up with daycare in his house (if it makes me happy), but he's not giving that up.

[daycare]

Why don't you then?

You can add an egress window, if you don't have a second exit. My friend did to make her dc compliant and it worked well.

If you live where it's cold, you'll need extra heat. There are child-safe ION heaters that work really well.

An apartment sized refrigerator, a microwave, and maybe a hotplate (or an electric fry pan) takes care of meals.

Just think of the fun you'd have with "kid' decorating while the rest of your house looks like a grown-ups.

FYI-we have a finished basement, but our master suite is down there (half exposed), and has been since before I did daycare. Also, our family room, which is in reality my dh's man-cave. He'll put up with daycare in his house (if it makes me happy), but he's not giving that up.

my kids and husband have a game room where anything daycare related is banned... I am not even allowed to temporary store anything in there that has to do with the childcare...

[LK5kids]

A nice large maple tree in the back yard...No shade here...ick!

I want my old house back when I did child care years ago. Super nice big yard that got shady by 3:00 because the sun would go behind the bluff. The yard bordered a wooded hillside and we would go out 3x a day!

A much cooler yard by far!

[Josiegirl]

A wish for my daycare?
Hmmm there are so many.....
I wish all the kids would come in on Monday and somehow had all mysteriously lost their voice for 10 hours, starting at 7:00 a.m.
OR
That we had our nice grassed in backyard back. I had foundation work done last fall and they tore through half my yard which is now half mulch playground and half dirt(a.k.a. mud due to all the rain). I've got someone who said they can aerate it for me in the next couple weeks and reseed.

[My3cents]

love stuff like this..........hmmmm

all that nice stuff you see in the catalogs for outside play-

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

No extra money right now AT ALL, but if I did have it I would buy both sets of these for the daycare because they have been asking for them for the past month!

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/product/productDet.jsp?productItemID=1%2C689%2C949%2C371%2C925%2C533&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181113&bmUID=1369147422188

[WImom]

A 15x30 addition on the back of my house, right off the kitchen/dining room.

Hey, no one said it had to be reasonable wish!

That would be mine too!

[Patches]

A 15x30 addition on the back of my house, right off the kitchen/dining room.

Hey, no one said it had to be reasonable wish!

I take one of those, too

[Lianne]

I wish I was handy! I have so many projects I'd love to do/have for the daycare but I'm so not handy. I broke a friend's drillbit in an old tree the other day. I've bugged the one friend I have who is handy enough this spring and can't justify asking another favour.

[daycare]

I wish I was handy! I have so many projects I'd love to do/have for the daycare but I'm so not handy. I broke a friend's drillbit in an old tree the other day. I've bugged the one friend I have who is handy enough this spring and can't justify asking another favour.

ooohh that is a good wish no one in my family is handy...we do have a friend, but I hate to have to keep asking him too..

Our neighbor is one of the best at making things an is an amazing artist, but I always feel bad to ask him to do things when I know he does not have the time...

I have to add that to my list.......learn to become handy...