My training is as an elementary teacher and I have taken ECE courses. My hubby is military so we have lived in Nova Scotia, Alberta and several places in Ontario. Cracking the lineup in teaching is very hard when you are basically just passing through. When we moved to Calgary I was almost 8 months pregnant with our second. When she was 4 months old we moved off base cause they took off the rent controls and put in house buying incentives. Shortly after that I started with a neighbour's child after she had a childcare crisis and then is just sort of spread from there. I did join an agency in Alberta in 1987 for the supports while getting started. Tried an agency when we moved to Ontario thinking it would be the same but it was awful so I have been private ever since 1990.