The Scatterbrained Deist

Since my last post I've been doing lots of research into the home daycare option. So far, I like what I see. I'm a little more worried about the amount of money it might take to start up the business, but I have ideas that could help me save money and maybe even make more. From what I've learned about starting a business, it is easiest to get customers when you find a niche, something to specialize in that has a very targeted market. My potential niche? Green. Or about as green as a licensed daycare can be. I decided a few months ago that I want to use cloth diapers with my own children. My family thinks I'm nuts, but I don't mind doing laundry and I would like to make my carbon footprint smaller in ways that I'm willing to. And looking online I've only been able to find one daycare center in Colorado Springs that is cloth diaper friendly. That would give me an advantage. I have the advantage of experience in an accredited military child development center.

There are many things that are very important to me in regards to how I want my children to grow up, but at the top of my list is being able to be at home with them when they are young. I know, in this day and age and hard economic times, it is a lot to ask (unless we win the lottery or something), but my mom stayed at home with me and my little sister until she was in kindergarten. And even then, my mom only had a part time job until my sister was in high school when she started working full time. I am not even asking for that. I want to work. I'm not the kind of person that can spend money without having made some myself. I just want to have a way to work at home. I have an entrepreneurial spirit so a home-based business seems like the best option. I can already feel the eyerolling going on. What would I do? Why would I want to be stuck in my house all day? Well I would want to be home because that's where my babies would be. I work at a child development center, but I really