I’m getting ready to go back to work so of course I need to reevaluate and make sure that working 50 miles from home will still turn a profit for me. The price of day care for my two youngest is going up and the price of after school care for my two oldest is also going up.
The silver lining is that the price of gas is so much less than it was at this time last year.
Of course, I didn’t get a raise (not that $750 a year would have really mattered in my budget) because of school district budgets being tight.
Overall, though I think it still works out to our benefit, monitarily anyway. The jury is still out on whether or not I am destroying my children’s futures by not staying home.