I've had my daycare for approximately 6 months and it seems like someone is ALWAYS sick!! In July, I had two kids start. Within 2 weeks, we'd all gotten croup (including me), I had to close the daycare for one day, but one of my kids - who is suseptible to coughs - stayed home for 4 days. Then a few weeks later, one of the kids got pink eye and strep throat and was off sick for a week. Then about 2 weeks later I got sick. I didn't close the daycare but I told everyone I was super sick and they all chose not to come. Then 3 weeks ago, my son had a fever of 104 and I closed for one day. A week ago, I decided to close for half day this coming Friday because my husband is going for surgery and I need to drive him there and back. The surgery is only an hour. Then today, one of this kids came with pink eye and EVERYONE got it, including me and my husband. I'm not closing, but I notifed the families, and I'm assuming they will choose to keep their kids home. (One of the families is the one who was off for an entire week the first time we all got sick, and was the one with pink eye, so he seemes to be off A LOT and this is the family I'm worried about)

Is it normal for everyone to be sick so much? The family I mentioned above that I'm worried about has been really nice about the whole thing. The little boy can go to his nanny's if he needs to stay home, so it's not a problem for mom. But I worry that after a while she's going to get fed up. She's been through this whole daycare thing before with her older son, so I wonder if she realizes this is just normal for home daycares.

what do you think?