I do a monthly newsletter that is just a chatty page about what we have been doing, notices about birthdays, special events. I don't post menus as we make them up as we go along and also with mixed ages I sometimes do different things for different ages depending on leftovers and eating abilities so it was just too much. Most of my parents don't care knowing if the kids don't eat I will let them know and in the grand scheme of things having chicken twice in one day is not the worst thing to befall a child.

I am looking at expanding the newsletter into a weekly blog type thing I would do at some point on the weekend telling about the week and including some photos etc. mainly as I will be starting with babies again who don't talk. But I do not want to do anything that takes away from my time with the children or my alone time while they are sleeping - no naptime journalling for me.

I did actually see on a couple websites where the person had posted along with her fees $5 for written daily journals. In other words parent had to want it bad enough to pay and then likely appreciated it enough to read it that way making it worth the caregiver's time to do.