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Mid-week randoms
I don't have daycare on Friday and I can't miss work. I have asked 10 people if they can watch T, but no one can.
I don't hate my daycare, but I really hate that she can take days off whenever she feels like it and still charges me full price for those weeks. It's beyond frustrating.
Re: Mid-week randoms
Good morning.
Molly, your daycare situation sounds very frustrating. Is there a policy about how much notice she has to give you if she's taking a day off?
I have never understood that. So many friends have said the same thing about their daycare. Sorry to hear that you are having a hard time finding daycare. I hope it works out!
I do the same thing. Funny thing is that it is a great website to peruse when you need a break.
It's a sign that you MUST join
HAHA...I know. EVERYBODY is doing it! I don't need one more thing to distract me from housework while Noah naps though.:)
I wasn't used to DCPs taking off random days because my old DCP would provide a back up. Apparently I was really spoiled.
My new DCP considers 3, 4, and 5 days to be full time, so the only time I will get a break moneywise is if she takes 3 days off and T only goes 2 days. It really, really sucks.
I don't want him to hurry and grow up, but I can't wait till he's not in daycare anymore.
Ok - this makes a little more sense now. It is still frustrating, I am sure. Fingers crossed you get something in line for Friday.
DesMol, that is BS. Does this lady have a handbook with her policies? My provider had set holidays and two weeks off (or maybe it was one). If she had to take other days off, she gave us plenty of notice. Since I used her for three days, she wouldn't charge me for the day she wasn't working or let me bring the girls on one of my normal day offs.
Home daycares are great in that they charge way less, but it sucks because you are at the mercy of one person.
I'm being stubborn about Pinterest too. I also don't need one more distriction, despite the fact that everyone is doing it!
Yep, that is why we went with a center.
One of the guys that lives next door is a playa.
Henry and I were heading out for a walk this morning around 9:30. When we passed the porches a girl looked up and said hello. She was eating cereal with the guy we call goofball. This is the 3rd chick in about 2 weeks that has had breakfast on the porch with this guy.
Ahhhh, college.
I am filing this trick away for future use. It is bound to happen to us.
I was visiting a friend with similar doorknob problems. Three 8 year olds had shut themselves in the bedroom (after hiding both sides of the doorknobs an hour previous) and the door was stuck shut. Luckily, it was on the 1st floor, and the screen came out of the window easily. I don't know if they ever found those knobs again...
Good thinking, Gvsu!
Haha. That's kind of funny. Is this the shoeless guy?
If that didn't work, I don't know what I would have done. It was in our 1/4 bathroom. Literally it is a cubby size room with a toliet. The hinges are in the inside of the room, there is a window, but I don't know if it opens and we wouldn't have been able to bust the door open because there is no safe spot Allison could have gone.
The shoeless guy (who owns the house) has a steady girlfriend. She is an old roommate of Mike's cousin actually. Very nice girl.
The playa/goofball rents a room from shoeless guy. He is really very nice as well. He gave Henry a Rubik's cube a few months ago.
But more importantly, does she wear shoes?
Maybe playa is buying silence with the Rubik's cube?
gvsu, that's a scary situation! Glad you figured it out. Do you have the doorknobs replaced?
So, Hersey's is doing a new campaign with their "air delights" kisses. Interesting way to save $$ with cocoa costs skyrocketing.
kasa - haha! She does wear shoes. Makes me wonder if their relationship will make it
GRsp - you might be on to something ... It's an understanding they have now.
Yeah... I had the same thought.
Although, granted, there have been many times where I was eating Hershey kisses, and I thought to myself, "This is pretty good. But do you know what's lacking? Air.".
Wait... no... that has never happened.