Aaron and I did everything our assessor has asked us to do to provide adequate child care but she has NOT approved our plan yet. Why? We had every work scenario -- between Aaron's day, evening and midnight shifts, and my evening, afternoon and part-time day shifts -- worked out between day care, my mother-in-law and us taking care of the child. Cookie is keeping the baby overnight even though we could pick up the child after work at midnight just to accommodate their rules. You could even see when we would have family days to spend together!
Don't forget our approved FMLA leave, sick leave and vacation times for each of us to cover emergencies. That is technically 12 weeks of leave EACH if we really need it! Not that we would use it all but it's there just for our fostering purpose. We are lucky that both our jobs consider fostering like maternity and adoption as a way to ask for time off and not be denied or a reason to lose our jobs. We may not get extra leave like maternity or adoption but it will help when needed.
We may have crazy work hours but we at least know our schedules up front, as opposed to people who's schedules are done weekly. You can pick a date in the next year and I can tell you when Aaron and I work and what the child care plan is! I now have stress...
