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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get an au pair.[/quote]

I cannot afford an au pair :( my 7 year old is in school full-time and my 4.5 year old is in a full-time preschool. I’ve already arranged full-time summer camps for both kids and after school care for both next year (our school has a afterschool program literally down the street and they charge $50 a month after school and $50 a week for summer camp) and the kids can be signed up for dance after school at the rec center or swim lessons at the pool attached in the summer so it’s really good.

I just can’t afford the thousands of dollars for an au pair. We rely on our two incomes. I make 52% but also get all holidays, school breaks (not the full summer though), more sick time, and I cover our health insurance, and have my VRS retirement account so I am the primary breadwinner somewhat.

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Oh and I arranged back-up care for when I have early meetings or there’s a teacher-work day but our back-up sitter has kids and can’t watch mine when they are really sick. He’s watched them once or twice when they were recovering but not when they had fevers. I’m sending out messages to the local moms i know to see if anyone has a back-up sick day sitter. Someone said they have one that lives 30 minutes from me and she doesn’t speak English, only Spanish but is really nice. I’m seeing if she would be open to a possible back-up situation.

I’m looking for more. I can’t beg my elderly parents to drive 2 hours each way from northern VA. They are 76, retired but do not want to get sick. They’ve offered to “help” with childcare once but they didn’t fully understand the full financial implications and it put me in a huge bind when I agreed to a nanny that I could no longer afford and had to go into debt.  I have no one else. [/quote]

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