Originally Posted by midaycare:
The only time I have seen this amount of time off is because a provider is starting to retire.
I take 10 days a year, but all of my parents have them off. Thanksgiving and the day after, 24th-26th of Dec, and Dec 31st and Jan 1st. And Dec 31 because it's my bday. Then Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day. I may take up to an additional 2 weeks, but I've always had a sub, and last year used only 6 of those days. So parents didn't lose any daycare except the 10 days; most of those holidays for all of them.
I see very few providers take enough vacations and we often get worked to death!
BFF actually assumed that retirement was the case when all this went down. This was almost 7 years ago and she's still taking a few kids here and there. I know at the time she was complaining about all of her families "abandoning" her.
She's also a bit of a nutcase, so there's that.