Hello everyone!
I need some help and advice please!!
I ran an in home daycare for 6 years and then 2 years ago I received a call from my former employee to come back to work. ( I had quit when I was on may leave with my second child) so now my boys were 8 and 6. This position I hold hold is a fairly high position in the company and I was there for 6 years prior to quitting. The amazing thing about his position is that my employers are completely flexible. They have no issues and allow me to tak as much time off as I need to be at any school functions or class my trips for my children... No questions asked. I also get 3 weeks vacation during the months of September thru to June as well as get June and July off to be home with my boys during the summer!! Too good to be true right?? I love my job an I love all of these perks and would absolutely hate to give it all up! Here's where my problem lies, I travel an hour each morning to work and an hour each way home at night. My kids, now 10 and 8 get up at 6 am. Thy are exhausted! It's a struggle each morning and I mean a struggle!! I'm home by 5:30 each night. Start dinner, eat by 6;30 clean up.. Then homework time.. Omg!! Who has the time for that!! Home work is also a struggle and takes up much of our night.. Then it's bath time, snack and bed. Then my night starts, picking out clothes for the kids and myself, my shower, preparing lunches etc. I'm exhausted by the time I'm done around 10:30 / 11 and off to bed I go only to get up at 5:30 and start all over again! Where's my time?? And all of the above includes mysel and my husband and between the two of us I still can't manage to sit down at night for even 30min to relax. Then comes weekends.. Groceries, laundry and cleaning!! Not to mention all the meals and snacks that have to be cooked and prepared. Where did my weekend go?? So here I am... Enjoying my summer off with my boys and dreading all of that come time to go back in 5 more weeks! I think I want to do daycare again!! It was tough..long days.. Loosing children at any giving time which means losing income and struggling to find more dck's! My house not being my house anymore.. Picky and mean parents.. But.. I gt to fold laundry on Mondays, when the kids napped I was able to scrub a toilet or 2.. Able to prepare my dinners earlier leaving me tons of time at night for homework etc and had plenty of me time come 9 pm!! I miss children.. I miss the hugs and miss the arts and crafts! I miss running their the spinklers with little voices giggling!! Most of all.. I miss being to able to play hide and seek at night with my own kids.. Or pulling out monopoly and playing all the way until the end on a weeknight!!!!Not sure which way to go on this!! I need help and advice please!!!!!!!!!!