Wow, I'm shocked at some of the childcare costs! Ours is $85/day part time, the daily rate is a bit lower if the kids are there 5 days a week.
Good to read that you're finding things to look forward to about Monday OP. I'm nowhere near that stage yet lol.
Still unsure how many days I'll actually be working. I had a few options and have let my old boss know what I'd like, but I don't know yet what they can do for me. The waiting sucks!
Childcare around here is pretty consistent - $80-$100 a day.
We are fortunate though that my ILs are going to take the boys (to answer your question TT) for the two days that I'll be in the office (Th-Fri) and so they will do the school runs as well. We are fortunate. Basically the only reason I am going back is $$$ and they see it as a bit ridiculous that they are retired and basically spending time here or travelling, so they are able to help out, and save us a significant bit of cash each week.
The third day I will do from home, sort of spread over the other three days. So I'll check emails at least twice on the three days and respond where I need to, plus make phone calls if I need to, while DS2 is sleeping. Again, I am fortunate that I can do this. ILs weren't willing to commit to three days, especially spread across the week, so this works for all of us. They can still do their beach life for five days and then come back for Thurs-Fri.
It's going to be difficult to juggle being at home and making sure I do my hours, but it is in my best interest to make it work, so make it work I will. Again, fortunate. I have an understanding employer. Mostly
Well I guess I'm going to find out what our full time care rate is After a few months of my boss searching for something else for me, the only thing I can return to is my old job, full time. I'm pretty upset by it really. I hate the thought of my kids in care 5 days a week. And when am I going to get anything done? Family life is going to suck for a while. It may be that I stay until I'm certain of a LSL pro rata payout and search for something more suitable, which I'm not really all that happy about either. Oh well.
I'm not sure, we haven't been able to figure out the policy properly, I can't work out what, if any, of my leave is counted. So I worked out to be eligible I need to work there 7 years, or 364 weeks. Including two lots of maternity leave, when I return I'll have been there 443 weeks. If I take away all of the maternity leave, even the parts paid by the company, it's 359 weeks. So, if they include 24 weeks of leave that they paid me for, I'm eligible now. And if not, I'm only 5 weeks away anyway.
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After a few months of my boss searching for something else for me, the only thing I can return to is my old job, full time. I'm pretty upset by it really. I hate the thought of my kids in care 5 days a week. And when am I going to get anything done? Family life is going to suck for a while. It may be that I stay until I'm certain of a LSL pro rata payout and search for something more suitable, which I'm not really all that happy about either. Oh well.
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