Tuesday, December 05, 2006

No more daycare!

I didn't much care for the daycare the boys were going to. The main lady was rude and I'm still annoyed that nobody noticed when Nathaniel got bit. Do they not watch them? I'm pretty sure that considering the bite marks took 2 weeks to go away that he had to have cried, screamed, or done something! You don't just take 2 bad bites with a smile and a high five and move on. Nathaniel really likes his friends there but that lady just rubbed me the wrong way. She always seemed to be more about her money than anything and was always on her cell phone when I was dropping them off. Really professional.

When we first started we paid first and last week, and we paid through November. Well, because of the snow, we missed the whole last week of November...but still paid. We also never used our "last week" that was paid for. So basically we payed for 2 weeks that we didn't use. And while you may think that we should have to pay because they held our spot....wrong. They did not. When I went in after the snow they had taken us off the roster. Everyone told us to cancel the $500 check we had just given them but we did the "right thing" and didn't. I feel like a better person than that lady because it also would have been the right thing for her to reimburse us for at least 1 week. In case you haven't noticed though, this lady cares about money, not kids or doing what's right. So in the end, we're out a lot of money for something we didn't use, and when we did use it, it wasn't worth it. I guess that's what I get for going to the cheapest place...you get what you pay for.

So today Esteban went in for a meeting at work and was informed that the company was shutting down. They gave him half of his paycheck, said he would get the rest when the guy came over tonight to get his computer from us, and left us with a year long contract internet bill that they were suppossed to pay. He never showed up to do the computer paycheck exchange. and he disconnected his phone. Awesome. The computer is great and in the long run if we end up with it instead of the money it will be cool but at the moment it really screws us over for bills. Luckily we could cancel the internet within 30 days and today was 29. Talk about timing!

While I'm happy that he no longer works there because it was a shady business that pretty much screws everyone, it really sucks that it happened right before Christmas and I still have shopping to do! He's just going to try to start something from home or do contract work for now so we don't have to do daycare, and my boss is giving me overtime so it should be ok, but downsizing our income by more than half with no notice right before holidays is not fun.



At least I don't have to take my babies to that daycare ever again!!! And that's all that matters.

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