Annoying Adventures in Babysitting

Sit back now while I tell you the tale of the wicked daycare provider. OOooOOOooOOOooOOOooOOOOOHHHHH!

It started back in a cold winter, a beautiful princess named Elizabeth was very early on in her pregnancy. And at the wisdom of friends and family, she sought after a daycare provider for her soon to be born baby boy.

Twas a chilly day that winters morn when the beautiful princess had met with a daycare provider who seemed to have all that she was looking for. All the state qualifications, an educational curriculum, and probably what sold her the most was how close the daycare provider lived to her. It wasn't until much later that the princess realized she should have dug into this much deeper.

On February the second, two thousand and thirteen, the princess and her husband, the prince, wrote a check securing a place at the daycare providers home when the princess had to go back to work.

Everyone went about their routines without a hitch for the next few months.

After the baby prince was born in July, the princess gave notice to her daycare provider that she was scheduled to return to work on October the seventh. A short 12 weeks after giving birth to the handsome baby prince.

The week before she was scheduled to return to work, the princess texted her daycare provider asking to set up a time to meet her baby prince. She did not want to introduce her child until he had his proper vaccinations especially considering he would be going to a daycare facility and could likely pick up an illness rather easily.

The wicked daycare lady wasn't too thrilled about meeting the baby prince as he cancelled on an appointment to meet the baby twice. Here is the actual text message exchange,.

Proof that we had open communication until the date of her dropping us from her service.

On September 26th the wicked daycare lady said that she couldn't meet with Nolan before starting daycare. She "had something come up that needs to be dealt with before we leave this weekend." You can see this from her text above!

On September 27th she wrote a letter, a really generic one (I have it at home and I'll probably post a copy of it later) about how she can no longer care for us.

On September 28th, the USPS postmarked this envelope.

On September 30th at 4:00pm I went to check my mail and I found this letter. I, I mean the princess, was very upset by this news as she was scheduled to return to work 6 days from then.

So in a panicked frenzy, the princess called a bunch of people to try to get help. Of course, it's difficult to find caretakers on such short notice, even more difficult to find someone who has a place for an infant. So reluctantly the princess started to call providers that this wicked daycare lady recommended in her letter in which she was dumped from her care.

This process was extremely difficult for the princess. Imagine having just one week left with your baby before going back to work full time - and instead of having a blissful week without anything to worry about, you're instead frantically searching for a replacement caretaker. Tearfully the princess called caretakers. Each caretaker that she called didn't have space, so they recommended 3-4 people that might have space. The princess called each of those caretakers and so on and so forth.

The princess unfortunately spent the last week of her maternity leave in actual emotional distress. She had the rug pulled out from underneath her and she needed to find new care. When she finally found a place that could take her baby temporarily, she felt better, but not MUCH better. She wanted to vet her new caretaker and try to make sure she was doing the very best she could for her child.

Uhhhh...

So far the TL;DR is: I got dumped by my daycare lady just 6 days before I was scheduled to go back to work.

The letter the daycare lady wrote stated that she would pay us our deposit back in 30... 30 what? days? weeks? months? years? She didn't clarify.

This is where it's getting sticky. The daycare lady isn't responding to my text messages. She will henceforth be called a coward. She defriended me from facebook within minutes of me acknowledging receipt of the letter via text in which, yes, I called her a coward. So maybe she wasn't too pleased with me but I'm not too pleased with her either.

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This blog has gotten really long, and honestly I just don't have it in me to finish the recent happenings of the last few days just yet. Maybe i'll post the resolution to this when it happens but for now I'm honestly just exhausted to relive it right now.