I spent the majority of today becoming more and more upset by the fact that day care is so expensive. SO expensive.

I suppose the whole thing started when I was thinking about what will happen when we have another baby. Currently the cost of infant care in St. Louis MO seems to average around $200 per week. At age two the price drops to a measly $186. Have two little ones in day care? You spend just over $20,000 a year. Is that insane or what?

We’re fortunate enough to make enough money that I can still work and make money over the day care costs. But nearly $11k for day care? That makes me nauseous.

How do people do it? I mean, there are tons and tons of average everyday people like S. and me that drop their kids at day care every day, so why aren’t they up in arms about the exorbitant price? It’s truly ridiculous.

I think the thing that aggravates me the most is that we were just getting to a point with our finances that we could pay off some of the debt we’d accumulated during our materialistic 20’s. Of course, now we’re just going to chug along at capacity.

I’d really, really been hoping to build up our savings so we could move to a bigger house in a couple years. I don’t see that happening for a long time now. This is ridiculous.

Frustrated,
michelle