Daycare Woes :(

I was going to post pictures today, but I have a sad heart and decided to vent a little. Jarrett's church owned daycare had a large family of the church decide that the daycare is inconveniencing the church so the board voted to shut it down come July 31st. We faound him a new daycare by our house that we really like and we are very happy, butu we will really miss where we are going. They are like a family to us. Jarrett has been going there since he was 2 months old. Alot of the workers are family and the director's daughter used to babysit for us when Ashley wasn't old enough. We love them very much. We thought everything was going ok except us having to leave at the end of this month until my hubby called me yesterday morning and said for me to up our start date at teh new daycare b/c Mrs. Vickie said to find somewhere immediately. That seemed a little odd to me so I asked about it when I picked him up. Mrs. Vickie got a letter from the church board signed by 2 people saying that the daycare bank account had been closed as of July 14th and everything spent past that date she would be held responsible for. She didn't even have enough food for lunch so she went to the grocery store and purchased the food out of her own pcoket. She has 26 kids left and 3 workers. She said it would be best if yesterday would be his last day , but she didn't have the funds to refund us for the 1/2 week of daycare we lost. She cried. I cried. Jarrett hugged us b/c he didn't know what was going on and he it worried him and put him in a fussy mood. He had to hug all of his friends goodbye and the workers left and they were crying. I asked Mrs. Vickie how could "Christian" people do that. She told them that she needed grocery money for the kids and they didn't do it. I know Mrs. Vickie and would 100% vouch that she is an extremely honest person. She said it upset her so bad she'd leave if she could, but she couldn't leave her babies that would suffer in her absence. She thinks she has found a job for herself and her workers maybe. I really hope so. I need prayer right now so I'll quit this feeling of anger and resentment I have towards these board members for disrupting so many wonderful peoples lives in a very rude and inconsiderate way. They should have left it open until the end of the month like they said and this transition could have been easier. I asked Mrs. Vickie why wouldn't she go fight the board for it to remain open. And she said "This is God's house. I will not fight in God's house. Maybe something better will come for everyone." We let Jarrett go to my inlaws house the remainder of this week so we aren't paying double daycare, but he starts next week. Hopefull he will transition quickly and be very happy.

Brandi

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