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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Sorry if I'm frightening to anyone. Also, thanks for all the tips on budgeting without knowing anything about my personal financial situation. I'll be sure to save up lots of money and get a job that gives me more vacation time.

Regarding budgets - I think we can all recognize that we budget to our income and expenses. Whether you make 40k, 60k or 100k a year, you plan your living, childcare, savings, etc accordingly. Yes, we all (hopefully) make plans for unexpected events. Calling it a "hardship" really wasn't appropriate. I'm not going to miss a mortgage payment, my kid and I will still eat, etc.

In that context, I really wouldn't consider my daycare wanting to take an extra half day off an "unexpected event." I'd consider a snowstorm or a pipe bursting an unexpected event. They announced this closure two weeks prior - so it's not a total scramble, but it's still not great.
 
Maybe I'm too business focused, but my real issue is that I signed up for a daycare center with certain expectations, based on their published guidelines. Those guidelines state the days they'll be off and the circumstances which warrant other closures. This is not within those guidelines.

In this case, I'll have to take 5 hours off of work - and honestly, whether its vacation time or unpaid time really doesn't matter. It's more than 10% of one week's paycheck. I look at it as if my job came to me and said "hey, do you mind if we just close early this week - and we won't pay you for the last 5 hours. OK?" I guess some of us would be happy to take that. I'd rather just have the extra cash in my pocket to buy a plane ticket to go see grandma.
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OP, you make some very good points here, but all I can say is, you're going to have to get used to this sort of thing. It's one of the inconveniences of life that multiplies when you have kids. By the way, where is your DH? Why can't he take time off to stay with the child?[/quote]

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