Starshine, I live in a big apartment in an old house near downtown in my city and there is no yard, just a little triangle of grass in one corner of the parking lot where I have set up play equipment. We only go there when we can only be outside for a short time. It's much better in the winter because it's a great place to build forts and have the children play in the snow. Also we are less mobile in the winter.

But spring, summer & fall we are on the bus or walking to the library, parks, splashpads, you name it. My little guys are pros on the bus after a couple of years and I use the backpacks with ropes attached to me for the small walkers so they are very safe.

When people contact me for an interview I make sure they understand that I share my home with the daycare and I don't have a dedicated space but that it is as large as most basement spaces that are used as dedicated rooms I've ever run across. I always tell them about our travelling and variety and that I think it is great exercise getting to a place as well as the fun of being somewhere different. We are never in the same place twice in a week this way. And I teach as we travel, playing I spy games and stopping to look at gardens, all kinds of things.

Make sure you have tons of pictures on your website of all the places you can visit with pics of your little ones having fun. And like I said, weed them out before you waste your time interviewing. I have really learned over the past years to stress all my positives and refute their negative ideas whenever I can, but I don't waste my time with the 'snobs'. If they want a dedicated daycare room, they don't want me and I don't want them. Be proud of all the things you offer and don't worry about the families you DO NOT want!

P.S. If you send me a pm I'll tell you my website and you can have a peek.