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As many of you know, I quit daycare back in August. Had a rough patch quitting, as my parents were "blindsided" and my mother in law threw me under the bus when she would go camping with them. I had quit so I could focus more on my Parents as Teachers position.
I love love love my job! I get all my home visits in within 3 days. I have a group meeting once a month, and then random hours throughout the month at home getting things ready for both. That's about all that my job consists of now. My group meetings have been going over so well! I have record numbers coming each month! happyface September I did fire safety and had the fire truck there, 16 kids showed up and loved it, October we did Monster Mash with sensory boxes (huge mess, but so worth it!) I had 32 kids come!!!
The only thing I would want to change is how and when I get paid, I didn't have an actual paycheck until last month! One that I could actually contribute anything with. With my husband being self employed, we weren't really prepared for that. One of the many things I wasn't explained, just something I should have "known". I do my home visits, the next month they are processed and then the month after I get paid for them
I had no idea that was how it worked. But this way I'll get paid into July for May's visits but not have to be working through the summer.
The only child I have home during the day while school is in session is my 3 year old daughter and she is the amazing, fun loving, always happy child I remember before I did daycare. She's so much happier not having to share every thing in her house. She actually goes to daycare once a week now. It's just enough to get her out of our house and some interaction with other kids but not enough to overwhelm us both (this is the first person that has watched her besides family!)
My house actually stays somewhat clean now (I do have 3 kids of my own :
: as clean as it can be with them!). I get all my errands done during the day, my daughter and I have had so many date days it's amazing being able to spend all this time with her before she heads off to school!
I will admit, I had the littles that I used to watch come over for a slumber party last month. It felt like I was babysitting the whole time, it was awful!!!!! So I learned my lesson on that one.
I figured I owed everyone an update, I spent a good part of a whole year on this website almost everyday getting advice that I very much needed! To those of you burnt out, I wish I could say I overcame that and everything was better BUT it just didn't happen for me! Everyday just amplified the previous day and I realized I had to do something different. I'm so much happier, my whole family is happier! We have our house back. We aren't constantly waiting for someone to be picked up so we can leave. My son has his friends over and doesn't think twice about it (he used to avoid it so his friends weren't bombarded by little kids wanting their attention). My grocery bill has been cut in half! I don't completely regret doing it. The income definitely helped, however, I am glad I can now look back on it and realize I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN ::::
So thank you all for your kind words when I needed them most
I love love love my job! I get all my home visits in within 3 days. I have a group meeting once a month, and then random hours throughout the month at home getting things ready for both. That's about all that my job consists of now. My group meetings have been going over so well! I have record numbers coming each month! happyface September I did fire safety and had the fire truck there, 16 kids showed up and loved it, October we did Monster Mash with sensory boxes (huge mess, but so worth it!) I had 32 kids come!!!
The only thing I would want to change is how and when I get paid, I didn't have an actual paycheck until last month! One that I could actually contribute anything with. With my husband being self employed, we weren't really prepared for that. One of the many things I wasn't explained, just something I should have "known". I do my home visits, the next month they are processed and then the month after I get paid for them
I had no idea that was how it worked. But this way I'll get paid into July for May's visits but not have to be working through the summer. The only child I have home during the day while school is in session is my 3 year old daughter and she is the amazing, fun loving, always happy child I remember before I did daycare. She's so much happier not having to share every thing in her house. She actually goes to daycare once a week now. It's just enough to get her out of our house and some interaction with other kids but not enough to overwhelm us both (this is the first person that has watched her besides family!)
My house actually stays somewhat clean now (I do have 3 kids of my own :
: as clean as it can be with them!). I get all my errands done during the day, my daughter and I have had so many date days it's amazing being able to spend all this time with her before she heads off to school! I will admit, I had the littles that I used to watch come over for a slumber party last month. It felt like I was babysitting the whole time, it was awful!!!!! So I learned my lesson on that one.
I figured I owed everyone an update, I spent a good part of a whole year on this website almost everyday getting advice that I very much needed! To those of you burnt out, I wish I could say I overcame that and everything was better BUT it just didn't happen for me! Everyday just amplified the previous day and I realized I had to do something different. I'm so much happier, my whole family is happier! We have our house back. We aren't constantly waiting for someone to be picked up so we can leave. My son has his friends over and doesn't think twice about it (he used to avoid it so his friends weren't bombarded by little kids wanting their attention). My grocery bill has been cut in half! I don't completely regret doing it. The income definitely helped, however, I am glad I can now look back on it and realize I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN :
::: So thank you all for your kind words when I needed them most
Congrats!
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