Stressed out!

It always seems right when you're getting where you need to be life has a way of messing it all up. I was just getting to where I needed to be financially and my world flips upside down and chews me up and spits me out. I need a fence for my daycare. It is not a want it is a need. I had all but $1000 saved up for the dang thing and you know life comes around and kicks me off my feet. I had to use some of that money to pay my assistant because some people didn't tell me their kids weren't coming until too late, didn't get paid for them and then still needed to pay my assistant who drove all the way from Alton to come work but I didn't even need her 4 days in a row! Then the holiday comes everyone is off different days couldn't do anything because I had to work everyday but made a misely $6.50 an hour all week long yea! No it blows. When my assistant was here I don't even think I made that maybe $5 an hour. Sweet! Then this whole Obama care thing is royaly screwing over anyone who is self employed which happens to be both of us awesome! And then people order things and then stiff me with their finished custom order and no money! I can't afford this. Totally feeling screwed over. I thought just maybe I'd be able to make up all the lost money from last weeks vacation goers this week. Think again! 4 kids tomorrow! 4 that's a total of $9 an hour putting my average at $7.50 an hour. Not good. What do I do? Fire my assistant? Replace kids whose moms are unreliable? Find a new job all together? Feeling so lost and underappreciated. Oh and to top it off all the boys missed the toilet so much lately the whole floor and sub flooring is shot all around the toilet so there goes some of the money I needed for my fence as well. Then while we are at it we might as well by a new toilet since that doesn't work very well either. i think I have to plunger it evry other day if not every day. Yay that fence that I actually really need is getting farther and farther away. And oh yes I can get some grant money to help pay for it if I buy more insurance which is barely less than what the amount of grant money would be worth. And the insurance company wants to see pictures of the fence I don't have in order for me to qualify for the insurance! Yay! One big loop hole of suckiness. easy come easy go! I sure hope things start turning around soon because I can not afford another week like this last.

Kinda peeved

I do understand that I'm not a big corporation and I do understand I'm not a "preschool" but I get aggrevated when people really don't know the difference. Want to know the truth about preschools is that Iowa has no standards for preschools except that they have a daycare registration. So guess what they have the same standards as me except I actually use a program that compares to the state standards at the elmentary level. I can prove which standards each activity not just each lesson apply to and how. I also know I am way cheaper than the daycare center and on the lower end for rates. So why do I get treated like crap? No one would like it if they received their paychecks a week late. Or if someone decided you weren't going to get 1/6 of your pay check anymore. I do what I do because I love the children and I love to see them learn and succeed when they move on. All I ask in return is a bit of respect and to be paid on time, and to be told when not to expect children since I did hire an assistant to help me on days when all the children are present. I think it's a bit easier for everyone if they just text or call and say I'm not gonna be there today instead of having my assistant drive 15 miles to work for diddly because we don't get paid that much and then what get sent back home at noon when I finally find out people aren't showing up. So then I'm just supposed to pay her half of what I normally make and eat the lost money because someone else decided it to be that way without telling me?! Very frusterating! It really belittles all the extra stuff that I do with the kids that I know other places dont. It also eats away every last dime I extra I could spend on the kids getting ice cream, going to the zoo, or checking out a movie. What is that old saying you get what you pay for? Maybe you should find elsewhere to daycare then. Because these are all examples of how disrespectful you have been. This is my job. And people need to understand that it is my only income. It also  changes significantly from day to day and if I were any other proffession things would be drastically different. It is a creature of it's own and it totally exasperates me to be treated so disrespectfully. I take care of your children 40-50 hours a week. I wipe their tears, I feed them nutricious meals, I teach them manners, kindness, cleanliness, responsibility, abcs, 123s, all about the world around them, and most importantly self worth. All I ask for inreturn is for a bit of respect. I have and will never treat anyone this way let alone someone who looks after my children when I cannot myself. Just some food for thought, and I know other daycare ladies feel the same a lot because the most common complaint about the business is not getting paid. I'm done ranting but it seriously ticks me off.