January 26, 2008
In less than a month - my baby, my Tink will be going to Kindergarten Round-up, I’ll be signing her up for Kindergarten…
Oh.MY. GOSH….
My Baby will be in Kindergarten….
She’s no longer a baby….
I need to breathe…
and then as I am almost tearing up over this knowledge, Mr. Incredible says two words to me
“Daycare. Bill.”
and I smiled.
Right now, we pay around $160 per week, when Pan is in school all day everyday, and Tink is there full time. This summer? it will be close to $250 a week.
So when I get all teary-eyed again in February, and then again in the fall -someone please say - those two words - DAYCARE. BILL.
11:47 pm
In our case, we won’t save much when Sparky starts kindergarten. We pay $20 a day for her daycare now. Once she starts kindergarten in the fall and is only at daycare before and after school, it will cost $15 a day.
A chunk of that $5 we save will go for her hot lunch at school (right or wrong, I think kids need a hot lunch, especially during the cold months). I’m sure the rest will just get spent on something she needs for school.
11:55 pm
what the hell? two fifty a week?
I watch a little girl, a month younger than stuperman, (Ive had her since she was one) And I charge 20 bucks a day.
Your paying - in the summer, two and a half times what i charge/ What a Rip Off!
My god. I think If i was paying what you are I would have tried to get her in a year earlier!
12:13 am
Blogarita - I wonder if Sparky would qualify for free or reduced lunches?
Blue - Sounds like a great deal to me - any chance you moving to Gotham any time soon?
5:22 am
Ahhh….Mr. Incredible is very wise!
7:31 am
Daycare is just outrageous!! I was so lucky, my mom watched my kids for me. We paid her but nothing like what daycare charges and the absolute trust I had in her was priceless!
8:41 am
I’ll be right there with you!
OK, the daycare bill won’t drop much (as she’s in part time daycare and she will move to 1/2 daycare/after school care next year) but the preschool bill will go away.
Yep, my last baby will go to school.
My battle cry is “Only one pickup location!!”
2:38 pm
OR - you can have another one!!!!!
5:55 pm
LMAO at Laura - you are soooo not funny.
Timestep - I am lucky enough to only have one drop off and pick up location!
Mel - that would be a benefit of having parents that were closer - but sometimes it’s worth living further away.
Mr. Fab - sometimes.
7:41 pm
I always seem to get an itch for another baby when I don’t have a huge daycare bill any longer! Even though the Little Princess is in Kindergarden, ours is a paid program (because of huge school budget cuts) so it’s still $2700 this year.
7:50 pm
Two Princess Girls - K is requirement of the state - so they haven’t cut the funding for it yet. (Notice I said yet!)
9:32 pm
LOL @ Laura! K quit working in the summer because with the drive (gas) & both kids in daycare, she figured she made about $1 a week! Then she just didn’t go back (bad roads in winter & all ya’ know - hee).
I can’t believe what they charge these days…just WOW. And the disbelief that your baby’s that old? I get it. K’s first day SHE was thrilled…I bawled like a baby.
9:37 pm
Blog hopping today-I love your site! I know first hand about day care bills, that is until my hubby became a WAHD. Cheers!
10:00 pm
Isabelle goes to kindergarten in the fall, too. I cannot believe she will be five already.
6:26 am
I hadn’t thought about reduced lunches because I was thinking about our income. But since Artsy would actually be the one enrolling her, it’s a possibility. Thanks for the reminder.
6:45 am
I understand how you feel. These little one’s grow up too fast. Princess started kindergarten this year and I find it hard to beleive that in a few short months, she will be going to school all day. *sigh* too fast. just too fast.
12:01 pm
NICE! I pay $750/month! Say DAYCARE BILL for me too.
2:06 pm
I too, will be going to Kindergarten round up in a month and a half, to register my baby….time flys….we don’t have day care expenses right now..but, I have been there….the savings will be astronomical…Yay, no more daycare!
11:05 am
yup, my Boo, my baby will be going to in the fall..
this year I will have a 6th grader a 3rd grader and a kindergardner..
damn im getting old