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Post by crunch on Jan 12, 2018 20:23:22 GMT -6
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Post by talon on Jan 12, 2018 20:24:01 GMT -6
Also we didn't get the house. Grumpy, party of one I'm sorry, that sucks
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 20:30:07 GMT -6
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Post by hawkeye2015 on Jan 12, 2018 20:56:56 GMT -6
If you need a laugh after this week, Obama is on an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. It's on Netflix.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 12, 2018 21:01:03 GMT -6
Ok so we had a leadership meeting this week and I learned that MoC will make time to speak with you if you are delivering a letter from a constituent. Even if you are not, yourself, a constituent. I'm ready and willing to hand deliver a letter from any of you to your Representatives on the Hill and verbally represent your position. Just send me your letter and what you'd like me to convey. I mean that sincerely.
Eta as long as you don't want me to deliver a message that's, like, heinous.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 12, 2018 21:01:51 GMT -6
We're in the middle of sorting out all of our end of year finance stuff. I did some math and we spent around $22k on childcare last year. We don't have a nanny or send our kids to some chichi put-this-on-your-college-applications preschool. I feel ill. Ohhhh fuuuuuuucckkkk thaaaaaatttttt. May pour you a drink?
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Post by enchanted on Jan 12, 2018 21:11:36 GMT -6
This week has been exhausting.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 12, 2018 21:12:43 GMT -6
Ok so we had a leadership meeting this week and I learned that MoC will make time to speak with you if you are delivering a letter from a constituent. Even if you are not, yourself, a constituent. I'm ready and willing to hand deliver a letter from any of you to your Representatives on the Hill and verbally represent your position. Just send me your letter and what you'd like me to convey. I mean that sincerely. Eta as long as you don't want me to deliver a message that's, like, heinous. How scathing are you willing to be? Because I have some words for Rodney Davis and he won't answer his phones anymore
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Post by enchanted on Jan 12, 2018 21:13:32 GMT -6
We're in the middle of sorting out all of our end of year finance stuff. I did some math and we spent around $22k on childcare last year. We don't have a nanny or send our kids to some chichi put-this-on-your-college-applications preschool. I feel ill. That's reason #2b why I work from home freelance. With my degree, in my field, and where we live, a little over half of what I could reasonably make here would go to childcare at a run of the mill center.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 12, 2018 21:13:33 GMT -6
Ok so we had a leadership meeting this week and I learned that MoC will make time to speak with you if you are delivering a letter from a constituent. Even if you are not, yourself, a constituent. I'm ready and willing to hand deliver a letter from any of you to your Representatives on the Hill and verbally represent your position. Just send me your letter and what you'd like me to convey. I mean that sincerely. Eta as long as you don't want me to deliver a message that's, like, heinous. How scathing are you willing to be? Because I have some words for Rodney Davis and he won't answer his phones anymore I will read a script. Just keep it PG bc I haul kids.
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Post by hawkeye2015 on Jan 12, 2018 21:21:13 GMT -6
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Post by coconutbacon on Jan 12, 2018 21:23:21 GMT -6
We're in the middle of sorting out all of our end of year finance stuff. I did some math and we spent around $22k on childcare last year. We don't have a nanny or send our kids to some chichi put-this-on-your-college-applications preschool. I feel ill. This is accurate for me as well. Related to this, did you read the NYTimes piece about the wages and labor conditions for most preschool teachers in the US? Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least? www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/magazine/why-are-our-most-important-teachers-paid-the-least.htmlIt will not make you feel better. It broke my heart and I just don’t understand why preschool and childcare are so expensive for so many of us, and yet the ones on the front line— the teachers— are so often not even paid a living wage.
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Post by Uncaripswife on Jan 12, 2018 21:23:33 GMT -6
Also we didn't get the house. Grumpy, party of one I'm sorry, friend.
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Post by mananana on Jan 12, 2018 21:27:43 GMT -6
Watching Obama on Letterman's new Netflix show. He came on stage and tears came to my eyes and I started saying, "Come back!" He is so eloquent, thoughtful, and funny.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 12, 2018 21:29:50 GMT -6
Ohhhh fuuuuuuucckkkk thaaaaaatttttt. May pour you a drink? Only if you're buying. 😭 Honey yes.
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Post by cp3 on Jan 12, 2018 21:30:12 GMT -6
We're in the middle of sorting out all of our end of year finance stuff. I did some math and we spent around $22k on childcare last year. We don't have a nanny or send our kids to some chichi put-this-on-your-college-applications preschool. I feel ill. We would be spending about $24k a year with two in full time daycare. It's a big reason why I'm going to SAH after the baby comes. And we do not live in a HCOL area. Childcare costs are insane.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 12, 2018 21:30:39 GMT -6
This is accurate for me as well. Related to this, did you read the NYTimes piece about the wages and labor conditions for most preschool teachers in the US? Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least? www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/magazine/why-are-our-most-important-teachers-paid-the-least.htmlIt will not make you feel better. It broke my heart and I just don’t understand why preschool and childcare are so expensive for so many of us, and yet the ones on the front line— the teachers— are so often not even paid a living wage. Daycare, IMO, should be publicly funded and teachers should be both highly qualified and significantly better paid. The way preschool teachers are paid makes me so angry. Are you suggesting we need to adopt more policies from, say, Norway?
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Post by coconutbacon on Jan 12, 2018 21:32:18 GMT -6
This is accurate for me as well. Related to this, did you read the NYTimes piece about the wages and labor conditions for most preschool teachers in the US? Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least? www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/magazine/why-are-our-most-important-teachers-paid-the-least.htmlIt will not make you feel better. It broke my heart and I just don’t understand why preschool and childcare are so expensive for so many of us, and yet the ones on the front line— the teachers— are so often not even paid a living wage. Daycare, IMO, should be publicly funded and teachers should be both highly qualified and significantly better paid. The way preschool teachers are paid makes me so angry. Preach!
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Post by cp3 on Jan 12, 2018 21:36:18 GMT -6
I hope everyone sick is feeling better soon. This winter has been horrible and so many people I know are sick right now or getting over something. DD is still getting over her horrible cold that started last weekend and Mh has it now and has been knocked out the past two days from it. I feel for him because I had a horrible cold right before Christmas and I basically needed to sleep for two days it was awful. I have not been that sick and felt that awful since I had H1N1 years ago.
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Post by Uncaripswife on Jan 12, 2018 21:40:08 GMT -6
The good news is that my husband is taking the boys to my inlaws tomorrow morning until Sunday evening so I have the couch and tv to myself and I can literally speak zero words and be a zombie. Except for the fact that you aren't feeling well, this sounds amazing.
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Post by Uncaripswife on Jan 12, 2018 21:44:08 GMT -6
Watching Obama on Letterman's new Netflix show. He came on stage and tears came to my eyes age I started saying, "Come back!" He is so eloquent, thoughtful, and funny. I just finished watching, too. I cried several times.
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Post by mananana on Jan 12, 2018 21:51:55 GMT -6
Letterman keeps pretending Obama is still president. And Letterman spends time with John Lewis in Selma and asks him how much of a setback the current administration is.
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Post by coconutbacon on Jan 12, 2018 21:52:12 GMT -6
When my daughter was an infant, the daycare we had her at— a chain center that was the only place we could sort of afford that had a spot for her, and by no means the most expensive place in my area, cost $2500/ month full time. MH and I hustled and each did a wfh with her one day a week, so we were paying less, but it was still a lot. But I figured at least the teachers were being paid well. The lead teacher had a BA in early childhood education and I knew she was also taking additional classes. And then one evening I went into the Walgreens near the daycare, and saw her lead teacher working behind the cash register there. She told me I’d found her at her second gig. I don’t know when she slept. I found out that the center only paid the lead teachers $12/ hour— in NYC! Parents are paying $30,000 a year, and the lead teachers, who they would brag all had college degrees, were not even making a living wage.
We’re at a new place now (where that teacher now also works). It’s still expensive, but not quite as obscene, and I know the teachers make $15/hr, which isn’t great, but better than at the previous place.
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 12, 2018 22:57:02 GMT -6
You guys are making me feel bad that I was mad last summer at tje2400 I had to spend for ‘summer camp’ at the daycare my kid went since infancy. It was more a week than when she actually was an infant. I feel like I should buy you all drinks. Especially since she does boys and girls club after school now and it’s 25 for the school year.
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Post by Minerva on Jan 12, 2018 23:56:00 GMT -6
DC metro childcare prices are a huge reason why I’m not returning to working outside the home before DS is in school. He currently attends a half day SN preschool where he receives services. We would need to hire a nanny with at least some SN experience to make our lives work, which would be $$$. We may still look for a nanny for DD once he is in full time school, but we could do a share to cut costs.
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Post by crimsonandclover on Jan 13, 2018 1:17:07 GMT -6
Ok so we had a leadership meeting this week and I learned that MoC will make time to speak with you if you are delivering a letter from a constituent. Even if you are not, yourself, a constituent. I'm ready and willing to hand deliver a letter from any of you to your Representatives on the Hill and verbally represent your position. Just send me your letter and what you'd like me to convey. I mean that sincerely. Eta as long as you don't want me to deliver a message that's, like, heinous. Will you sit in Durbin's office for me and doodle hearts on his desk while repeating, "keep fighting the good fight. You're the best." ? Do you need that in letter form to get in?
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Post by crimsonandclover on Jan 13, 2018 1:21:41 GMT -6
Also, my jaw is dropping at the childcare costs you all are citing. You don't want to know what I pay here. I think it would make you cry. Or up and move here, which I would welcome
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Post by blurnette989 on Jan 13, 2018 2:49:26 GMT -6
Also, my jaw is dropping at the childcare costs you all are citing. You don't want to know what I pay here. I think it would make you cry. Or up and move here, which I would welcome I was just thinking this. In Richmond, VA (not HCOL) we paid $29,000 a year for an infant who transitioned to toddler room and an older toddler. A nice daycare/preschool but not even the most expensive one. Here my kids are in a private daycare and we pay 550€ a month for both, so about 6600€ a year. And at tax time we will get a portion of that back in subsidies because our local state preschool is currently full. B is guaranteed a spot in state school now that he is 4, but I didn't want to split him from his brother. State preschool/daycare is free until 3 pm, 60€ a month if they need aftercare to 5 pm and 100€ if you need aftercare until 7 pm. And if you are lower income and have to pay for aftercare at a state school, you can get a waiver or a subsidy for paying. And Portugal isn't even a rich European country.
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Post by byjove on Jan 13, 2018 6:47:30 GMT -6
We're in the middle of sorting out all of our end of year finance stuff. I did some math and we spent around $22k on childcare last year. We don't have a nanny or send our kids to some chichi put-this-on-your-college-applications preschool. I feel ill. If it makes you feel better, we paid $40k ish for two kids this last year we are counting down the days until DD1 starts k this fall!!!
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Post by dc2london on Jan 13, 2018 6:48:12 GMT -6
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