In my past OMC musing I wrote about the struggle of how to figure out the daycare situation. Well, I'm still clueless.

How the heck do you find affordable daycare? 

Over the holidays I was finally able to start focusing on preparing for the arrival of a third member of our household and naturally turned to the Internet to do some research on daycares.

Unfortunately the sources I found were not very helpful. Through one of the State of Wisconsin agencies I found a huge listing of daycares in the Waukesha and Milwaukee area - -unfortunately the idiot who built the spreadsheet didn't build it so you could sort or search easily and it's GIANT! (It would take days to go through it).

I then did a search on two of the larger daycare groups in our area: Kindercare and Grandma's House. These would be our higher-end choice, and at $262/wk, I'm not sure if that option will fit our family budget. (I had also found some research from UWM online that said the maximum for weekly daycare was $231 in the state or Milwaukee -- well this quote blew that theory out of the water).

Then I went to the site milwaukeemoms.com -- which had a "find a daycare" option. "Yay!" I thought. Not so -- daycares have to pay to be listed so the pickings were slim to non-existent.

I have decided that daycare is like finding a good doctor -- word of mouth is still the best tool we have.  

So -- OMC readers -- if you know of any reputable daycare (in-home, professional centers, churches, etc.) along the I-94 corridor from Waukesha to the Mayfair area please let me know through the Talkback feature!!!!!!