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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. To clarify, I got back to work next month.  I have interviews and just need to let the hiring process work.  Childcare is necessary when I am working.  I am hoping for 70K starting out--if I can get to 80 that would be awesome  but I think I will be lucky to start out at 70.  So our income is going to go up substantially in a month.  I can work while finishing the last requirements of my grad degree, which was fully funded with a good stipend until I had kids.

I double checked with our take home and that is what it is. I thought it was odd too to be honest with you.

All of this advice is good and I am hopeful we can get back on our feet again.
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Check around for cheaper childcare prices.  You are just estimating at this point, right, since you are not actually working yet?[/quote]

Yea I still don't get it. You have to childcare before the job but you're not including your income?[/quote]

OP here. I have had childcare for the past few month because I am writing a dissertation. You can't take care of kids and write at the samw time. I tried it and it was a disaster. Childcare is a complete necesity.[/quote]

Ok it seems like you have more of a childcare problem than a making ends meet problem. I think you've got yourself into a unique situation trying to go back to work with two still in daycare. I think you hoped throwing money you didn't have at the problem ($3,600 a month). Instead, in the ideal world your husband should've explained to his boss that he needed later hours for 3 months. You should get up and leave the house at 6am and go work on your dissertation in a library. He should take the kids to part time care, who you then pick up around lunch. You put them down for a nap and have a couple hours to prepare a quick dinner. Your husband gets evenings to relax, but you alternate bedtime duty.

But once you work you're really just another D.C. Couple complaining that 200k is middle class, of which there are plenty on this forum.
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