June will mark the one year anniversary of opening my home up to childcare. I am mostly loving it. I have found in the last year, I went through a lot of "learning curves". I have now determined what my ideal age group is, whether or not I will transfer, what to be firm on... etc. I am having our fourth baby in September, so will be taking that month off. I will re-open the first "work" day in October. I don't have a looooong term end date. I will likely do this for a number of years, as I will still have small kids at home myself. I would never ever just up and close on families, so I am thinking that when I do choose to cease operating, it will be a 12 to 18 month gameplan. That being said; we all know that life has other plans sometimes, so who knows what the future holds!!