Childcare By Laura

My name is Laura. I am 36, married to a very wonderful man who is in the Navy and has been for the past 16 years. We have 5 children. We have 4 boys and 1 girl ranging in ages from 13 years to 11 months. I live off of South Lynnhaven, very close to the Lynnhaven Mall. The school district is Lynnhaven Elem. and Plaza Middle School. I ave been doing in home childcare in Va. Beach since summer of 2008.
I moved to Virginia Beach in the summer of 2007 . I lived in Michigan for 30 years before we moved to Virginia Beach. While living in Michigan I had a state licensed childcare in my home from 2000-2006. I have always enjoyed taking care of children and helping them learn and grow. I went through CPR and First aid and did many hours of early childhood development training classes through the 4C's. I was also a live in Nanny for a family in Chicago who had six children for 6 months back when I was 17 years old. While having my in home daycare in Michigan I was approached by one of my daycare moms to help her out in a bad situation and go above and beyond client/provider relationship and asked me to take custody of her daughter. The courts granted me temporary legal guardianship of her daughter so mom could move out of state and get back on her feet. I had this child in my home for a year. I just wanted to let you know this as I am not in this business for the money, I do this cause I truly love childcare. I am a very trustworthy, loving and caring person and if the courts were willing to give me legal guardianship of a little girl that had no relationship to me or my family what so ever then I think that I'm a pretty good egg. =)
I have a smoke free home but do have pets. I have a huge fenced in back yard with lots of outdoor and indoor toys and live on a dead end cul-de-sac. I have everything that you would need for a baby.
My rates are $125 per week for full time and $75 a week for part time per child, my drop in care rate is $30, over night care is $15 more. I also do weekend care. I also offer multi child discounts. I provide all my parents an end of the year tax statement with my EIN on it so you can claim all childcare on your taxes. I provide all healthy meals and snacks. The only thing that I ask my parents to provide is diapers, wipes, pull ups, baby formula and jar baby food and extra change of clothing. I have a very clean and loving home that contains no drama! =)
Thank you,
Laura