Just trying to work out vacation care. Ouchies on the bank account now as I have to pay for two of them. Wish I could pay it monthly in the lead up to it. I just have to get better at managing the finances!
It's expensive isn't it. Ours is $50 per day, thankfully the Childcare rebate applies to OHSC and Vacation Care. DS is going two days in the April Holidays. I have arranged AL for the 2nd week and with my RDO, work from home day and my Mum we have the rest covered. DHs Mum/Step Father could have him, but..... I'm not a big fan of them as carers, the couple of times they've had him, they've disappointed me both times. They looked after DS recently when he was recovering from an ear infection and we wanted him to have another rest day from school and DH and I just couldn't take another day off work. We've sent a healthy lunch with a small treat, and they ended up feeding him three donuts instead I know they love him but I dont completely trust them. Step Father is a terrible driver. MIL encourages poor behaviour, then we have to undo it all when he returns home, so its just easier not to use them unless we are literally desperate (eg have used all our carers leave etc). So instead he will go to a couple of vacation care days. One of them is an excursion morning to 'The Food Forrest", and the other is an Easter Craft Day - he'll love both and is keen MIL asked what he was doing in the school holidays, I felt a bit bad but I just positioned it that he wanted to go to Vacation Care with his friends.

WYSIWYG - I hope the perfect job with work/life balance comes up. I cant imagine how hard it is, I've got a pretty good arrangement obviously. My boss has 5 kids which makes him very accommodating even though I know he'd prefer I was full time. I wish all employers were so understanding. Fingers Crossed something comes your way that has the hours that will suit!