Kelly Care Childcare Services

There hasn't been much time to write blogs over the last two weeks what with the kids settling back in to school, work being busy, the on-going house extension,Tina doing her Shine walk and me defending my Crossfit Same Sex Pairs Castle Games title. In addition to this we as a family are having to adapt to the fact that Tina has just started a new job at Kelly Care Childcare.

Tina has been looking for work for over a year now so it is great that she finally has a little job to firstly get her back out working and secondly to start bringing in some more money. Due to the ever increasing costs of childcare, Tina has not been able to work since before Holly was born, so almost 6 years as a stay at home Mum. Ironically it was childcare costs that stopped her from working and now she works in childcare services with Kelly Care. Ideally Tina would find a job in school hours but they are hard to come by, so her Kelly Care job is two hours a day from 7am to 9am.

The two boys have really had to step up to the plate and take much more responsibility for getting themselves ready for school, making their own breakfast and ensuring they get to school on time in the morning and on their own. Joshua has really shown a lot of maturity and has definitely stepped up to the mark in making sure everything runs smoothly in the morning.

With Holly we have managed to get her booked in to Tina's Kelly Care club for 3 of the 5 mornings a week (free of charge). Then on one morning she has started doing gymnastics which helps massively. This just left one morning of the week as a problem and I have had to negotiate some flexible working hours enabling me to do the school run on the problematic day on the condition that I work later in the evening to make up the hours.

So all of us have had to adapt and change or routine slightly in order for Tina to take on this job. Anyway it is early days so lets see if this all works out OK.