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I've worked with children all of my life. Started out babysitting. Got married and had 5 kids. Homeschooled. Then I started an in home day care, but with academics. That way, our children could also be with me. That grew, hired an employee, but was tired of our house wear and tear. So, we found a commercial acre and a third for sale, and it was a mile from our house. We got permission from our planning and zoning to build (that was brutal), bought the land, designed the 4k ft building. built it, and opened for business. Used our savings. It's been good...open for 15 plus years, anywhere from 9-12 employees at a time. I do day to day director operations, and train our teachers to teach...reading, math, and science. We have students as young as 2, all the way through kindergarten during the day. But have our older big kids to age twelve, before and after school till 6 p.m., full time during the summer, and also during school out times, like today and the next two weeks. Big kids usually gain 1/2 grade of academics in the 10 weeks of summer they are with us.
But...I am ready to sell and retire. Husband has health problems, and we raise the twin grandkids that are 12 yrs old. Am ready to move to the farm after we sell and husband retires. He works in aerospace. Manages the engineers that fly satellites for the military. The lady that "visited" while we were open last week is sure that her husband and her and another silent investor will be getting bank financing in January. I will believe it when I see it. And...the big and...is also getting husband to retire. He is of age this coming summer, but really, really loves his job. Maybe he might consider consulting.
My dad was in aerospace as well. He took the 'golden' severance package when he was ready to retire. They offered 6 months salary to those that voluntarily took the 'layoffs'. He made sure his pension kicked in after the 6 months was up. Not sure what company your hubby works for but he should check into it to see if they do the same thing.