I agree on the house size. If there is room in your place for you, your husband and your child then there is likely room for at least a couple more children. They only need a small place to play and it can spread from room to room making use of the kitchen table or a hallway. They can be napped in the same room so don't feel you need that many bedrooms. Coming from a daycare centre you will be bringing some of the centre mentality home and as others who have done it have said they realized that being home is different and the rules and methods are different and you have to put some of what you thought was best practice aside in favour of the reality - which for home care is best practice - not wrong just different than centre care.

It can take quite awhile to get settled in home daycare too. Getting at least that first child into care is the best accomplishment of all. Once other parents see that you have kids in care they will be willing to leave their child too and eventually you will be full but it can take several months.

If you treated the part time evening job as temporary until you can get the daycare up and running then you will have something to look forward to. Then you can decide what you do about the job. Maybe you will keep it just to get out with adults in the evenings or decide to work just weekends when you don't have kids in care. But you will figure out what works best for your family. Just give it all time.