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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe this has been covered before, but I didn’t find it.

We have no nearby family, a preschooler and a toddler. We’re both working full time from home and we’re nearing our breaking point. Best we can hope for from DCPS is 2 days F2F, but that doesn’t seem likely and we’re not sure we would want to do it anyway.

All of our options for help are imperfect at best. We’re seriously considering packing up and driving to DH’s midsized Midwest hometown where he has 2 sets of parents who could each watch the kids 2 days each - giving us 4 full days a week to work. We’d rent a furnished house there for less than the cost of a part time babysitter here. Realistically I think we’d be gone until February if we went so we could spend holidays and the preschoolers birthday with family instead of home alone just the 4 of us. Assuming things don’t get much better of course.

We don’t want to leave our home. We love it here. We love our neighborhood. Leaving feels kind of like running away. We’d be going to suburbia, which we don’t like. We’d have to drive everywhere, every day. We drive maybe weekly now, if that.

On the other hand, we need help. We can’t afford a nanny or full time babysitter. We haven’t been able to find a part time babysitter that will work with just our family, which increases risk beyond our comfort zone. We’re equally uncomfortable with daycare, plus our older child would be very unhappy retuning to that setting and being much other than the other kids there. And they’re only offering reduced hours now.

Feeling very stressed and unsure of what to do or what the best thing is for our family.

Is a short term to be near family for help crazy? We haven’t heard of others doing this. What haven’t we thought of that might work for us to stay at home?
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