Hi All!

I'm a first time mom with our first Holiday around the corner for gift giving to our daycare teachers and I have been following all the treads on here about what to get the teachers. My husband and I decided that we are going to give cash, as I don't know them well enough to give personalized gifts of any kind.

Here is my dilemma. Hopefully you can follow along.

When my son first started in May he had 2 main head room teachers, Ms. B and Ms. P, and 1 part-time teacher, Ms. N (of course others filled in for vacations, etc..), but basically 3 teachers/caregivers. In September one of the main teachers (that was there for 18 years in the infant room - just couldn't physically handle infants anymore), Ms. P, and moved to another older room at the daycare, but is still there and does fill in every now and again. Another teacher from the older room came into the infant room, Ms. A. Starting September we now again have 2 main teachers, Ms B. and Ms. A, and the same part time teacher Ms. N. We were told that the school is interviewing a replacement for Ms. P and will let us know. Now in late October, we were notified that a new teacher was hired for the infant room, Ms. S and told that Ms. A will stay in the room until Ms. S is fully trained that then Ms. A will move back to her old room starting December 1st. So at one point we had 4 teachers, 3 fulltime Ms B, Ms. A, Ms. S, and 1 part time Ms. N. Now Ms A. is no longer in the room and it is 2 full time, Ms. B, Ms. S, 1 and part time teacher Ms. N.

I have no idea what to do for gift amounts... Do I give everyone a cash gift? Ms. B, Ms. P, Ms. A, Ms. S, and Ms. N??? Do I give them all the same amount? Obviously Ms B. and Ms. N were there the entire time, but the other 3 were not...

I will also be bringing in a platter of cookies for the teachers all to share in the kitchenette...