WELL...it's been an interesting span of my life....just about 7 years actually, and I am leaving it. I'm leaving my job. I never thought I would be saying this. But it's time. My girls need me.
I'm going to be returning for approximately a month or so on Dec 18th. My mother and husband will split up watching the girls until I am finished working.
While I have been off of work, I have been working towards being licensed as a daycare provider. My licensing is just about complete. By mid January, I will be a licensed daycare provider in my home. My plan is just to take a few kids in to supplement our income. We will go on my husbands health insurance, and I will stay home with the girls this way.
I never saw myself as a stay at home mom - so hopefully being busy all day will keep ME busy enough! I am looking forward to this. It is a decision I threw around when Noelani was a baby. I never decided to do it because the cost of daycare didn't really outweigh the benefits of working full time. However, it is now apparent that to send my 2 girls to daycare, I will be handing my paycheck over for someone else to raise my kids. I also started throwing around the idea of home schooling Noelani, and so with ALL of these things going on, the best way to handle it all is going to be for me to be home.
Noelani went to a really close friends daycare, which I am thankful for because I never had to worry! She developed SO much better than I could ever have imagined as far as her skills of knowing her shapes, numbers, letters, etc. I credit that to my friend, because she really works with the kids at her daycare. I hope that I can provide those skills for other parents and their children.
I absolutely love and adore children, so I know that I will be completely ok in that aspect of nurturing all of the kids! I worked in a daycare for quite a few years back in college, and it was my favorite job. Unfortunately, I had to grow up and get a real job back then, or I would probably have never left that field.Noey went part time up until the baby came home, but Antoine is looking for a new job. That means I would have to put both girls in full time 40+ hours a week. YIKES!
Hopefully this is going to be the best fit for us for now. If not, well, it will work out. I am not going to stress over it. This is what seems like the best decision, so we shall see!!
If anyone needs daycare, pass the word and give them my info! Oh - and wish me luck. I sit behind a desk for 37.5 hours a week and program computers....this is TOTALLY going to be a change in pace for me!
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Awww, congrats on your decision. As you know, I am a stay at home Mom and would not change it for a second. Im against the idea of having day care raise the children, or course unless there is no other choice. You have children to have children, not to have them be cared for by someone else while you go off to work all day. I don't see it fair for the kids. Its harder of course with no extra money to play with but since you will be a provider you wont have that issue as much. It can be exhausting and stressful, but so can full time jobs. And there is no better place then to be hanging out with your kids all day. :)
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ReplyDeleteI have always admired you being a sahm. I dont know if its because i had kids "later" in life and was just set in my ways. When Noey came along, we were living in an apartment and we really wanted to get a house. I agreed to go back to work part time. My plan was to never go back full time, but after Noey turned a yr old I was in jeopardy of losing my job. At the time i had to decide to keep working or lose the job and not get a house. Blah. So i decided since Noey would be in daycare only part time and my sis helping watch her that I would go back full time.
As of jan this yr, my sis couldnt watch her anymore and for like two months she went full time. We had just bought the house and i kept saying "when we just pay this or that off i will work pt again". Well then Antoine got a new job as a residential counselor overnights and had thurs/fri off. So Noey only had to go to daycare MTW 7-10am. Then of course i thought "its not so bad its only a few hours a wk"! EXCUSES i guess.
Then my Kai came along-and she is what I like to call my needy baby. Some kids are good "daycare kids". Kai is NOT a child who would last in a daycare setting.
Once we set the bills out and worked it all out-like you said-im paying someone else to watch my kids.
It is different for me because I am a very fast paced person and things like them napping for 3 hrs kills me to have nothing to do! But hopefully with the daycare I will stay busy!