I think we found our DCP!

chayer227 · January 2011

I have been stressing about this HUGE decision. DH teaches with a woman who takes her daughter to a private in-home provider near their school. We've heard nothing but great things about her and her prices.

I was getting a bit frustrated with the intense game of phone-tag she and I were playing, and started to lose faith that she may be the right option for us.

We finally touched base on Friday, and DH and I met her today. There was not one thing about her or what she said that made me doubt her.

She charges $125 a week, provides "regular" food and snacks for all the kids, takes in only 5 children at a time, keeps them right at her house/fenced-in yard (but has a Surburban, so if a situation arises where she needs to take them all somewhere, she can), does educational play with them all morning, only allows a small amount of educational TV in the afternoon...

The best part is that she will allow us to take summers and school vacations off - and not even pay! She looks at it as a break for her too, to have the lower numbers. And, she's willing to do cloth diapers - as long as I give her a crash course. Party!!! (of course, I still need to get a clue myself, but that's why I'm signing DH and myself up for a workshop at the Diaper Lab).

I still have a few more questions for her, but I don't see that she'd answer any of them with any deal-breaker responses. I wasn't prepared with my list of Q's today, since we were coming at an awkward time of day for her, and didn't expect to have any time to chat with her. The kids were surprisingly well-behaved so we talked a lot.

This is such a relief for me (as much as I already know I'll hate going back to work) to have one big thing crossed off the Baby To Do list.