Winter Dilemma - How do you get from A-Z?

[waterloo day mom]

Do you have a retired neighbour or friend who lives nearby who is on mat leave come by and watch the young ones while you walk the older kids to the bus on particularly nasty days?

[Spixie33]

I love the input - thanks. I love the point about how gas and a different vehicle could account for some possible tax deductions. I hadn't even thought of that.

I think our jobs are so isolating as it is that having alarger vehicle would also mean that maybe on one day a week I could go to a different park or a different early years because I wouldn't be confined to everything in walking distance.

The suggestion about neighbours alternating off would be great but it is not a good solution for our neighbourhood. We have about 3 different schools and buses going around - catholic, public, French as well as walking distance to another English Public school. I don't have any neighbour whose kids go on the same bus as mine that I am close to and all the other people at the bus stop we use live closer to the bus stop than we do so it would mean a big detour for them to backtrack to our house and then turn around back to the bus stop.

The days I am worried about are the Jan/Feb windchill -20 days and I don't see any volunteers to go out in that. lol. I have a neighbour/friend on mat leave and she doesn't leave the house unless weather conditions are perfectly cozy

[lilac]

I have heard from another provider that had the turtle bus, that its ok in a bit of snow but in wet sticky or a lot of snow the wheels pick up the snow and it gets stuck in the break.

I walk back and forth to school, although the school is only about 10min walk 1 way for me, it takes us 45mins to an hr to do the school run (due to some of the kids that walk). So I hear ya, on thoes miserable, cold, "I want to quit" days! I only have 1 child that needs a stroller, so i have a jogger with a weather sheild. However, I used to have 3 younger kids, and i had a Runabout Stroller, big wheels, great in the snow (no problem with the break like the turtle bus) light weight and easy to push. I had a triple but they come as big as 6. You can get a canopy and a winter weather sheild as well. These strollers too are a pretty penny, however, as someone else had pointed out, less than a new vehicle! If I find myself with more than 2 little ones that would require a stroller in the future I would for sure get another one of these!!!