Nightly Prep

[jaylupa]

I do most of the prep on the weekend usually Sunday. I plan the week's meals and lessons, and print out all my worksheets and coloring sheets. I used to make muffins on Monday's because I only had 2 full time kids, but That will get bumped to nap time or sunday now too. I clean floors during nap time, and vaccum during day care time, (realistically, mommy vaccums at home too when the kids are around!) I can see the playroom from the kitchen, so I can slice and dice while kids have free play. Running a day care is demanding enough, and taking up all your time with you family doesn't make me a happy mommy either, so I try to plan, plan, plan and prep prep prep, keeping as much during dc hours as possible.

[sunnydays]

The only thing I do in the evenings weekends is cooking meals (but I cook the meals for my family and the leftovers are for daycare) and cleaning my house on the weekends including vaccuuming and mopping the daycare area and cleaning bathrooms etc. I prep snacks during daycare hours...actually I just cut up fruit while kids sit and munch...that way I can cut up more if they want more and less if it is not a hit and I don't waste like I would if I had cut up an enormous pile of fruit and they only eat a tiny bit etc. I don't normaly prep crafts or that kind of thing outside of daycare hours. Most things I do while the kids freeplay or sometimes at naptime if necessary. The day is long enough without spending all my freetime/family time working on stuff for the daycare.