And a happy new year. /sarcasm
I can't post about this yet on Facebook (so please don't mention it there) because I have a few day care parents (and some of my relatives) on that f-list, but I had to post somewhere.
The day care is closing as of the end of the year. That's right. Yup. Totally. Okay, there's a slight chance that she'll keep a couple of kids on who are almost entirely paid for by the government, but the point is, it's not staying open until summer, and she can't afford to pay me after this month. The actual written notification won't go out to parents until next week, but there it is.
Let me recap. We came up here at the time that we did because of this job. Kurt and my mom each left a job at which they were each making what I'm making now, but have not been able to find work here (save the seasonal employment that they're both trying to squeeze every hour out of this month). I've been supporting both of them since June. The move was expensive, we sold both of their cars.
Then, after a fairly short time up here, the truth came out that the business was floundering. When she needed me to move up here, all I heard about was how lucrative the business was. The worst I heard was that we'd lost a couple of clients due to the economy making a couple of stay-at-home moms out of them, but that it was no big deal and we'd bounce back in no time. Then I discover that not one of our clients is paying the going rate for child care, and she's been bankrolling the damn day care out of her savings and such. Well, that savings has run out.
The decision to close the day care come summer had already been made. (Oops, sorry, I just realized that I hadn't posted about that.) I told Helen when I got back from my last CA trip that I'd decided that I could not be happy running the day care. But this moves the whole "OMG NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO" thing up several months. And, in fact, right on the doorstep of this month. I'd suspected that she was trying to sell me a sinking ship, turns out that even if I'd been staying on permanently, it would have all fallen apart by the end of this year anyway.
Kurt and I have already started figuring things out. Of course everything depends on the two of them being able to get steady jobs.
I promise I'll post more as details come, but right now everything is up in the air. Like, even more that it was before. Hey, d'y'all remember how moving up here was supposed to simplify my life? Remember how excited I was that everything was about to get all mellow and quiet? Yeah.
The day care is closing as of the end of the year. That's right. Yup. Totally. Okay, there's a slight chance that she'll keep a couple of kids on who are almost entirely paid for by the government, but the point is, it's not staying open until summer, and she can't afford to pay me after this month. The actual written notification won't go out to parents until next week, but there it is.
Let me recap. We came up here at the time that we did because of this job. Kurt and my mom each left a job at which they were each making what I'm making now, but have not been able to find work here (save the seasonal employment that they're both trying to squeeze every hour out of this month). I've been supporting both of them since June. The move was expensive, we sold both of their cars.
Then, after a fairly short time up here, the truth came out that the business was floundering. When she needed me to move up here, all I heard about was how lucrative the business was. The worst I heard was that we'd lost a couple of clients due to the economy making a couple of stay-at-home moms out of them, but that it was no big deal and we'd bounce back in no time. Then I discover that not one of our clients is paying the going rate for child care, and she's been bankrolling the damn day care out of her savings and such. Well, that savings has run out.
The decision to close the day care come summer had already been made. (Oops, sorry, I just realized that I hadn't posted about that.) I told Helen when I got back from my last CA trip that I'd decided that I could not be happy running the day care. But this moves the whole "OMG NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO" thing up several months. And, in fact, right on the doorstep of this month. I'd suspected that she was trying to sell me a sinking ship, turns out that even if I'd been staying on permanently, it would have all fallen apart by the end of this year anyway.
Kurt and I have already started figuring things out. Of course everything depends on the two of them being able to get steady jobs.
I promise I'll post more as details come, but right now everything is up in the air. Like, even more that it was before. Hey, d'y'all remember how moving up here was supposed to simplify my life? Remember how excited I was that everything was about to get all mellow and quiet? Yeah.