Great news!!!

[Sarah]

Good for you!

Yes, the extra money is always nice, but I think your sanity is even better!!

I have two full time and one part time kid. I have an ad out for one more, preferably part time but sometimes I wonder if I really need to fill that spot. I don't want extra stress!!

ah yeah you're so right! I'll take it off right after answering you guys! And I'll see if my sanity can take more in jan! But first, let's have the 3 for 3 months, and then decide!

Thanks for the advice!

[Sarah]

Yes i have a basement? I just don't have 20k to finish it?

Daycare on the main level isn't difficult it's just that it's my home and I now have opened my main living space to all my daycare kids. I can't relax at the end of the day knowing it's not 100 % for my family.
Plus my husband can't relax in the morning in our family room due to the kids using the space.

At least if it were in a different space I could enjoy myself more. I'm cleaning every morning at 6am and every night at 6am! If my daycare was in it's own space I would clean it only every morning for the day. I'm not saying I don't clean through out the day but i mean a deep cleaning!

I use to have my daycare on my mainfloor, in QC, and I loved it. It is always filled up with toys, but I arranged boxes, that you put on each other, and I was hiding them as soon as the DCK would leave.

You'll get your basement some day, save money!

[playfelt]

We have finished basements in two of our houses and we did on a weekly basis. It took awhile but at least it didn't hurt the pocket book so bad. We decided how much of my income we could spare - two children's worth and then every week we used that money to buy supplies and the week to install them. The walls were framed 10 feet at a time sort of thing, a bag of insulation at a time, that sort of thing but it was also fun to watch it come together.

[Sarah]

wow these days we are so used to get everything right away, I think you are an exemple of patience...

[Nifer]

I used to have two play areas on my main floor-livingroom and extra bedroom. But some days was a pain depending on age of children if I had 2 young ones each in a diff room playing it was harder to watch them. We renovated our basement to make one big area (also for family tho-rec room) and like it much better (and will hopefully need the other bedroom soon) Luckily my father did the work and paid for supplies and we're (slowly) paying him back.