I am one of those that does have Remembrance day listed in my list of closed days because my hubby is military and some years he was on parade and the family attended so I am closed to give me the freedom to do what I want that day. I also have Easter monday in my list of closed days with the idea that after a long winter I deserve a long weekend. We are either heavily involved in church activities because of sunday school and choir or we take the opportunity of no snowy weather to travel to visit the grandparents and for that need the extra day to make it worth while. This started before family day ever existed so I just added that one to my contract.

Now having said that if I have parents that I know do not get those three days off and I have no major plans for the day I will sometimes accept those children into care for half the daily rate extra but they are cared for - food, nap, diapers, but no programming so basically they are just hanging out here.