Start Up Questions

[innisfildaycare]

I wouldn't be discouraged. Work your finances out and go with what works best for your family. If starting an in home daycare is something you really want to do, you can make it work. Cut down costs by price matching LITERALLY EVERYTHING from groceries to toys and everything in between. Having a job outside of the home is ALOT harder then working inside the home, IMO, based on my own experiences. Most companies aren't too thrilled when you say you would like to take the morning off to volunteer at your childs school, or that you might have to take 1 week off of work to stay home with one sick child, only to turn around and have to stay home the next week with your other child who then caught it and then the week after, once you have become sick. Most companies, dont allow paid time off or sick days. Most companies only offer vacation in consecutive weeks which means, any additional days off are not paid, hence the fact that taking time off work outside the home is just as hard as trying to take time off while running an in home daycare. While I was doing daycare (6 years) I spent tons and tons of time with my boys. Yes, I was running a daycare, but my boys were with me. Its now, that I have been back to work that I dont spend alot of time with them. When I am home, Im busy cooking, cleaning, laundry etc. When I did daycare, anything i did with the daycare kids (as part of my job) always included my boys. We played games, we sang, we danced, we learned, we walked, we painted, we colored on and on and on. Now, my boys say to me "mommy, you never do anything with us" my heart breaks!! Hence the fact that I am re-opening my daycare in July. YES, I am leaving an amazing job with amazing employers and YES I will suffer from a huge pay cut, YES we will be extremely tight with money, YES my salary will never be stable or steady BUT my boys will have their mommy back! And although my boys wont be small forever, Im willing to give up everything for them right now no matter how stupid I may be right now at the moment or how much I will regret it later.