I raise my rates slowly, $1 or $2 per day maximum when I have a rate change. I'm not sure what your $200 raise works out to per day, sorry I'm too tired to do math right now, but is it more than that?

I don't charge for my vacations and I take 3 or 4 weeks every year. Grandparents may be helping out when I'm away or the parents might have to pay somebody else so I don't feel it would be right for me to charge them. But every other week of the year full payments are due, even if they take any other vacation time.

Also, I didn't raise my rates for 3 years, but during that time I added Christmas Eve day, some paid personal days, but I did it slowly year by year to be fair to my established clients. New clients didn't notice of course.

Can you advertise and start looking for new clients now?