Help Help Help!!!

[Emma H]

For the rest of you awesome ladies thank you so much for all your help! I totally agree that ten days vacation is way to much but it is a great selling point. In the new year I will be changing my contract to 5 days only. The rates within my area are 35,37,40 one home daycare charged 55, so I was thinking of doing 40 per day for infants and as soon as they turn 2 to charge 37 or 38 per day. Does this sound good? I live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. A house is desperately needed for my own sanity as well....When I transition a new infant and start trying to get them use to a playpen.....there is screaming for about 2-4 weeks....listening to that in a one bedroom condo really gets to you....and its not fair to the other kids who can't fall asleep because of a crying baby....I really want to set up a nursery room for the babies to make it as comfortable as I can....Another thing is that my whole apartment is daycare even my bedroom! I really just need my own space so at the end of the day I can leave the basement with daycare behind for the evening....I have spent ALOT of money on my business...The toys I buy are all made from wood (brands like Melissa and Doug, Hape etc.) so it was very expensive and when people tell me we love your daycare but we don't like that its in a apartment is such a shame to loose clients for that reason.....I really want to do gardening with the kids so they can get a sense of nature and learn where food comes from.....Planting organic food is very inexpensive and this will cut down A LOT of costs especially for foods like cucumber...non organic 99 cents organic 4.50 lol