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Ouch, that is a long time without daycare. My daycare is closed one day that the office is open (Friday the 23rd). I am going to take that day off and unofficially work from home. I may bring the baby in to see people as well.

Wow! I work at a daycare and my class is paid for by the state of GA so we follow our local school system's calender. When I'm out, she's out.

I begged and plead a lot. To my mother and to my employer. My mother lives in another state but she's not working so she will take on half the time. The other half my husband and I will split taking time off. It sucks. I just got back from maternity leave and felt awful asking for more time. And my husband just got a job so it may reflect poorly on him to request the time so soon. But what can ya do?

Edit- I should actually mention that I'm in the same boat. So I know all too well what you're going through!

Wow, that is a lot of time closed. I purposely picked our daycare because it follows the corporate calendar and does not close a lot. But when it does close on days that we don't have off, I have to stay home with my daughter and take the day off.

That is a plus to our in-home daycare. She's really flexible and doesn't close except for the major holidays and up to a week of vacation (with 30 days notice). DH is a teacher, so we actually pay for quite a bit of time that we don't use.

I'm not sure what to do next summer when DH is off from school. DH might just work part time since we'll be paying regardless, if we stay with the same day care provider.

Ours is closed too, and luckily I have 5 days off between christmas and new years, and the rest of the days we ask our family (who have off) thank goodness for family!

Since my husband is a professor, hopefully he will be off the days a daycare would close for the holidays/summer so it won’t be too much of an issue for us. Other days we’ll have to work around – he’s more likely to possibly be off that day already (or part of the day), then I might just have to take a half day, or a few hours.

My mom lives 45 minutes away and could probably help out as well, and my fingers are crossed my MIL moves close to us after the baby is born, so she can help too.

My company provides back up care up to 20 days a year, they use bright horizons and those facilities are usually closed the same days the company is and open all other time. It cost 10 a day to use the back up care, the plus is that they are located on the 2nd floor of my office building the downside is different kids = different germs. But so far I've been able to work from home, have my husband take off (9 weeks of vacation time but its scheduled in Oct the prior year), take off myself, or plan a family getaway during that time.

@Mrs. Bee: With HS jobs so hard to come by in the cities, have you considered an older HS student or college student to watch the kids in your home? Or even someone you know who is currently unemployed? I would think that it would be less expensive than an actual day care and the kids would not be in a strange environment.

@Mrs. Bee: did you and Mr. Bee decide on what you are going to do with Charlie next week?

@mrbee: that is so great! Glad you resolved it and are able to use someone you and he knows!