You know you're a childcare provider when...

[mimi]

- hearing pee hit the toilet water makes you happy
- hearing the question "why?" makes you sigh with exhaustion
- have learned (most of the time) to use your neutral face as you listen to parents exclaim with excitement that their child is potty trained after only one success.
- you are used to not being asked "how you are feeling: when you feel and look like hell during drop offs
-you can sit on the floor and call out "I want a hug" and a bunch of lovely little people compete to get to you first
-you are accustomed to being last on your clients bill payment priorities.
-you feel guilty taking vacation time
-you are used to people thinking your career is less than
-you are used to people acknowledging that they could never do what we do
-you are proud of having built a business from the ground up
-you know your finances can take a sudden downturn/or upswing in a matter of days
-you are fluent in toddler speak and even translate for a dck's own parents haha
-you are proud of what you do!!!!