spoh
Well-Known Member
Okay, I will apologize for making this so long in advance because in order for you to understand I will need to explain.
I have done doing home daycare for the last 13+ years, today is my last day!!!!! One of my daycare Mom's has been my hair dresser since her first son started coming her 12 years ago. I love her dearly but I need a change. When I get my hair done I like to relax and enjoy the girl time, her shop is at her house and she thinks that I love her kids so much that I don't mind them being in the shop while I am there. I've literally had the youngest (3) climbing in my lap while I'm in the chair. She says nothing to the little girl. It drives me nuts!
A couple of years ago I wanted to see how my hair would look if somebody else cut it so I told her that one of the other daycare moms who at the time worked at a salon gave me a gift certificate to HER salon. She was upset with both me and the other daycare Mom. This is a person that you just don't want to get on the wrong side of. As much as I like her she is a HUGE gossip and I now own my own business I can't afford to have her gossiping about me. I think half the time she gets to talking that she doesn't really pay any attention to what she is doing so if we have talked about doing something a bit different she forgets because she is so busy talking.
Another thing thatbothers me is that she doesn't do any sort of continuing ed., she doesn't go to hair shows, she doesn't think that she needs to learn anything new. She still pulls hair through the little cap to do highlights, nobody does that anymore.
I am probably painting a pretty bad picture of her, it's not really that bad but I am done with daycare, Idon't want to go there and have her kid in my lap, I want something fresh, not the same thing that I have had for12 years. I have an appointment scheduled for the 20th, Ithought that maybe I would go to that appointment but then say that I will call her to schedule the next and thennot call, but she is the type that would call and ask me why I haven'tcalled.I don't want to hurt her feelings and I don't want to make her mad so how do I approach it? I have known this girl since we were kids, we lived in the same neighborhood, I see her parents at the store, we stop and talk, our husbands graduated together and their class reunion is coming up we will be hanging with each other because neither of us know many other people who will be there.
What would you do?How the heck do I tell her that I want to try somebody new?
HELP!
I have done doing home daycare for the last 13+ years, today is my last day!!!!! One of my daycare Mom's has been my hair dresser since her first son started coming her 12 years ago. I love her dearly but I need a change. When I get my hair done I like to relax and enjoy the girl time, her shop is at her house and she thinks that I love her kids so much that I don't mind them being in the shop while I am there. I've literally had the youngest (3) climbing in my lap while I'm in the chair. She says nothing to the little girl. It drives me nuts!
A couple of years ago I wanted to see how my hair would look if somebody else cut it so I told her that one of the other daycare moms who at the time worked at a salon gave me a gift certificate to HER salon. She was upset with both me and the other daycare Mom. This is a person that you just don't want to get on the wrong side of. As much as I like her she is a HUGE gossip and I now own my own business I can't afford to have her gossiping about me. I think half the time she gets to talking that she doesn't really pay any attention to what she is doing so if we have talked about doing something a bit different she forgets because she is so busy talking.
Another thing thatbothers me is that she doesn't do any sort of continuing ed., she doesn't go to hair shows, she doesn't think that she needs to learn anything new. She still pulls hair through the little cap to do highlights, nobody does that anymore.
I am probably painting a pretty bad picture of her, it's not really that bad but I am done with daycare, Idon't want to go there and have her kid in my lap, I want something fresh, not the same thing that I have had for12 years. I have an appointment scheduled for the 20th, Ithought that maybe I would go to that appointment but then say that I will call her to schedule the next and thennot call, but she is the type that would call and ask me why I haven'tcalled.I don't want to hurt her feelings and I don't want to make her mad so how do I approach it? I have known this girl since we were kids, we lived in the same neighborhood, I see her parents at the store, we stop and talk, our husbands graduated together and their class reunion is coming up we will be hanging with each other because neither of us know many other people who will be there.
What would you do?How the heck do I tell her that I want to try somebody new?
HELP!