is full-time daycare down here (even for infants) actually costs about $125-165 a week.
I think that is part of the problem: She's a transplant and doesn't realize. A in-home daycare around here can be as cheap as $200/week, (eta: but not that cheap for infants) and one or two of those we looked at seemed fine, but you have to be very lucky to get a space (no wait lists, just luck when you call).
Good morning. I got 10 hours of sleep last night, it's Friday, I have no after-hours maintenance scheduled for today, and I'm wearing my new shoes.
I'm envious about the new shoes and the 10 hours of sleep!
I'm leaving for Las Vegas tonight with DH. We're meeting my twin sister and her husband to celebrate his 40th birthday. And we're staying at the Venetian.
This will be a GREAT DAY!
Owen's reading my post over my shoulder saying, "Mom, Dad's birthday is in December!"
Something on Facebook made me think about this... what was Nutty's corollary to Snacky's law?
Have an Awesome Time, Cashmere!
Now what do you know about Portuguese intellectual property law?
I might be able to help some once I get to the office.
What do you need to know?
the funny thing about your listserv story is full-time daycare down here (even for infants) actually costs about $125-165 a week.
Our daycare costs $160 a week and we were super lucky to find a person who not only is licensed but had a ton of education/training in child development and a person who was willing to take a little high needs guy on oxygen.
But we lucked into it.
The larger centers were 18+ month wait and over twice as much.
Perkins are you packed and ready to go!
Sophia, Vee's Law: In an unmoderated posting environment, you are only as oppressed as you think you are.
Thanks flea!
It was on the tip of my brain.
Dang. At $250 a week ($50/day), ours is one of the more affordable places in San Francisco--all the others we looked at ran $60-75 a day.
And the daycare/preschool we'd been waitlisted for for 15 months finally has an opening in November -- and they've raised their rates by $300 a month so it's now $1365/m with a $400 deposit. We're frantically scrabbling for alternatives right now (Matilda adores her present caregiver, but the two peers she's been there with forever are moving on, all the others are at least 18 months younger, and the two new ones taking the open slots will almost certainly be wee infants, so staying on indefinitely isn't the best option for her developmentally).
