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millertc

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I need 2t-3t girl stuff clothes and etc... boys 4t-5t boys clothes and etc....


Hey SoccerMom: I plan on going through my son's closet and dresser this weekend. It would be boys 4T and possibly 5T. I will PM you and let you know what I have.
 
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SoccerMom2

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Hey SoccerMom: I plan on going through my son's closet and dresser this weekend. It would be boys 4T and possibly 5T. I will PM you and let you know what I have.

Hey LovinMaryland: I have a slide for you if you want it. I PM'd you about it just now.

Thank you. If you do i can pick up on Monday.
 

Dymphna

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I need 2t-3t girl stuff clothes and etc... boys 4t-5t boys clothes and etc....

Got any 5T boys clothing?

I'll ask, but I think most of the clothes already went to AmVets or Purple Heart.
most of the clothes are gone to various charities. I did find yet another small box of clothes in the basement earlier this week, but I don't know what's in it.

I was planning to have a yard sale tomorrow, but I need to pull stuff out, price it, sort the toys so that what goes together is together, that sort of thing. I need a week of having no other obligations, including caring for a clingy baby, in order to get it done....oh yeah, and a promise of no rain that week so I can pull it outside so I have room to go through it.
 
I was planning to have a yard sale tomorrow, but I need to pull stuff out, price it, sort the toys so that what goes together is together, that sort of thing.
My opinion is this:

2 words: Bulk sale

"You can have everything in this pile for $20.00 (and have $100.00+ worth of toys in the pile) or take all 8 piles of toys for $100.00."

Note: the above opinion is just that, an opinion, NOT an offer to sell all the toys for $100.00.

I need a week of having no other obligations, including caring for a clingy baby, in order to get it done....oh yeah, and a promise of no rain that week so I can pull it outside so I have room to go through it
Like that is gonna happen.
 
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emma1606

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Not intentially, although I haven't had a client in months...this is extra stuff, stuff I have too much of and no room for.

Wow! I thought people were always looking for good daycares, I know when I was, it was a total nightmare trying to find somewhere. I definitely prefer the inhome environment rather than a center. Good Luck!
 

Dymphna

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Wow! I thought people were always looking for good daycares, I know when I was, it was a total nightmare trying to find somewhere. I definitely prefer the inhome environment rather than a center. Good Luck!
The bad economy hit child care pretty hard and my daughter chose to be born at the same time the economy was tanking, so when I took off for maternity leave all my clients disappeared.
 

emma1606

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The bad economy hit child care pretty hard and my daughter chose to be born at the same time the economy was tanking, so when I took off for maternity leave all my clients disappeared.

That sucks. It actually never occurred to me but what happens to kids in a daycare when the provider goes on maternity leave? Do they have to leave and find another provider?
 

lovinmaryland

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That sucks. It actually never occurred to me but what happens to kids in a daycare when the provider goes on maternity leave? Do they have to leave and find another provider?

I guess it depends on how long they are going out on leave for. One of my previous providers went out on maternity leave for 2 weeks. I could handle finding other arrangements for 2 weeks. However if it would have been any more than 3 weeks that would have made it a little more difficult and I would have searched for another provider.
 
That sucks. It actually never occurred to me but what happens to kids in a daycare when the provider goes on maternity leave? Do they have to leave and find another provider?
She found somebody that was willing to watch the client kids on a temp basis and also provided a list of other providers in the area woth openings.
 

emma1606

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I guess it depends on how long they are going out on leave for. One of my previous providers went out on maternity leave for 2 weeks. I could handle finding other arrangements for 2 weeks. However if it would have been any more than 3 weeks that would have made it a little more difficult and I would have searched for another provider.

It's hard for both the provider and the parent. I know there are plenty like me that do not have any family living close by so it gets tough but it's only realistic to expect a woman to be able to have maternity leave.
 

lovinmaryland

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She found somebody that was willing to watch the client kids on a temp basis and also provided a list of other providers in the area woth openings.
Well that was nice of her.
It's hard for both the provider and the parent. I know there are plenty like me that do not have any family living close by so it gets tough but it's only realistic to expect a woman to be able to have maternity leave.

I agree 100%. Not like it isnt hard enough having a newborn but trying to watch other kids when you are getting adjusted to the new one must be tough.
 

Dymphna

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That sucks. It actually never occurred to me but what happens to kids in a daycare when the provider goes on maternity leave? Do they have to leave and find another provider?

I guess it depends on how long they are going out on leave for. One of my previous providers went out on maternity leave for 2 weeks. I could handle finding other arrangements for 2 weeks. However if it would have been any more than 3 weeks that would have made it a little more difficult and I would have searched for another provider.
It depends. Had I been planning to have more children, I'd have included something in my contract to protect myself. I know tons of providers so afraid of losing all their clients that they only take off for a week, maybe two. Some of them don't even take off that much. I even heard one lady say she only took off the actual day of the baby's birth and had her husband there for a couple of days to help out and then was back to business as usual. I decided I wasn't going to short-change my daughter like that and I wasn't going to gamble that my recovery from a c-section was going to be easy.

What I hadn't counted on was that the economy would hit the field so badly. The referral line that is often mentioned here, that there are threads about people complaining about constantly getting a busy signal....those people would sit all day and not get more than one or two calls last fall. It may be getting a little better now, but not like it was.
 

lovinmaryland

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But no one took me up on that. They just left.

How long did you take off and how far in advance did you tell everyone?

My friends provider originally told her parents that she would only take off a week or so and then told them after she had the baby that she was taking 6 weeks. IMO that is a little rude and she should have expected to lose some of her parents.

I personally don't have a lot of substitute options (most of my family lives at least 30-45 minutes from us) so I would need a lot of notice to cover 6 weeks of daycare.
 

Dymphna

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How long did you take off and how far in advance did you tell everyone?

My friends provider originally told her parents that she would only take off a week or so and then told them after she had the baby that she was taking 6 weeks. IMO that is a little rude and she should have expected to lose some of her parents.

I personally don't have a lot of substitute options (most of my family lives at least 30-45 minutes from us) so I would need a lot of notice to cover 6 weeks of daycare.
I told them in early April that I was taking off for 8 weeks starting the end of July (I guessed the date because I knew from the start it would be a c-section. I was off by a week). After my last c-section, (I've had 4 now) I was in bad pain for a full 7 weeks.

I had 3 families, one of them was on maternity leave themselves and decided not to go back to work at all. One was a close relative of the first family and decide to leave their child with the first family, since the first mom decide to stay home and the third family had a bad fight between mom and dad about whether to find temporary care and then come back to me or put the child in a large center. That family had several options, the provider I found to cover for me was not geographically convenient for them, but I found a second provider that was and was willing to take them on a temporary basis. They also had family that would take the child temporarily. They ended up putting the child in the center, but apparently the fight between mom and dad was bad.
 
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