Our city is much smaller than Ottawa and you can drive across it pretty much in 1/2 an hour. I am downtown so close to a lot of people's work, but I have one dcDad who works in a town just outside of our city and he can get here in 1/2 an hour. I figure most people work 8 hours and I'm allowing 1/2 an hour commute time each way. I had shift working parents in care before but grandparents helped out and I've been very lucky to have a lot of families using 7 or 7 1/2 hours a day, I've been very lucky.

I think a 9 hour day is long enough for the children, they are excited to go home after that amount of time away! I'll be sticking to my 9 hour days with overtime on top.