Today we have the “work or stay at home?” query from ” L. in Woodbury” - she’d love your 2 cents!

I need some help!  My weekend job is in jeopardy. I’ve got to decide if I’m going back to work or if I should continue to stay at home with my toddler.  I enjoy being a stay at home mom–and until recently, I had a sweet deal working just weekends. It allowed me to be home full time–but still have two nickels in my pocket. 

Well, they are streamlining at the job and eliminating my part time position.  Now I’ve got to make a choice:  Either work full time and send my toddler to day care–or stop working all together and stay at home without a pay check coming in.  With the rising price of gas, mounting bills and the cost of Pampers, we depend on my check to pitch in on things around the house.  So if I quit, the checks stop rolling in.  But the upside is I get to continue raising my baby the way I want to. 

On the other hand, if I work full time, put him in day care, I’ll continue to get paid. The downside is with the extremely high cost of GOOD day care centers, I’ll probably net about $30 a day.  I have no family in the Twin Cities, my husband and I are transplants, so there is no option to leave my 19 month old with a trusted relative while I work. 

Any advice? Also, suggestions for good day care in east St. Paul or Woodbury?

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