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[quote=Anonymous]People are talking about your DHs commute but your commute is going to suck AND you'll be in charge of drop off/pickup. This is my situation right now and it is resentment-building. The only thing he has to worry about is himself and the long drive. You have to worry about constantly being perfect and even running 10 minutes late can mean your whole day is thrown off and/or you have to take leave to leave work at normal time to be able to pick up your kid before daycare closes.

If you do daycare- most places don't open until 630. That means, best case scenario, you can leave by 640- even Columbia (not even talking about north of Baltimore) into DC at 640 is going to take you an hour. Add 8.5 day= 730-4pm. Leaving at 4pm gets you back to daycare by 6? Hope there are no closures or accidents because daycare closes at 6/630. You wont even have a chance of not missing pick up time at least 1x/month. Your kid is in daycare 12 hours a day and to get up at 6am, will need to be in bed literally by the time you get home.

A nanny will be overtime unless you can arrange 1 WAH day- maybe each? 3x 12 hours=36 plus buffer for bad travel days?

I drove from Baltimore (Locust Point) into Calverton for 9 months and even at pre-7am it would take me 30minutes (at least), into DC would be an additional 30-45 minutes depending on where you need to go. 95 S or N bound was closed (completely) 6 times during that 9 months. That isn't taking into account fender benders, spring break traffic, summer travelers, 4 days weekend traffic on Thursday nights, Thanksgiving and Christmas travel, abandoned cars, police stops, etc. - that means completelllllyyy closed. I was stuck on 95S for 3.5 hours one day. [/quote]

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