We feel so fortunate to have found Kathryn to care for our daughter. She has been watching her since she was 6 weeks old and she's now 9 months old. My daughter absolutely LOVES going to daycare. The minute she hears the door unlocking to open she claps her hands and gets so excited when she sees Mrs. Kathryn and her son! Her home is always clean and is a very calm and nurturing environment. She helped us to get our daughter into a very good routine throughout the day and it has worked very well for us. Her communication is great and she will communicate with much notice on when early pick ups may be needed or when closures are happening. I can definitely attest that any negative review on here is unfortunate, as it does not portray the accuracy of this daycare. If she has an opening, you will not regret it!

To be honest I am very sad that this daycare did not work out for us as it seemed like it would be a good fit at the beginning. Katy is very quiet and shy but seemed nice and she has a son the same age as ours so it seemed like it would be really fun for him.

Starting the first week, Katy suggested we only bring our son (9 months old) for a few hours at a time since this was his first time in daycare, to help him adjust and "ease into it". By the end of the first week, our son got a stomach bug (not a big deal and somewhat expected for being his first time in day care) so we kept him at home for the entire second week until he was feeling better.

The following week, Katy said we still need to pay for his full time care from the week he missed in order to "keep his spot in the day care". Which at the time seemed totally reasonable to be paying a reliable paycheck to someone and to receive reliable daycare in return (or so we thought). So that week (technically only the 2nd week of him actually attending the daycare), we again only took him for 3-6 hours a day for 3 of the days. During that time, Katy would tell us our son was fussy and would cry whenever she left the room (expected being a 9 month old child's first time in day care, right...?). Katy was very hard to read but I specifically asked her how she felt about how he was doing and she assured us that every kid has an adjustment period and that she was willing to work with him and that he just needs more time (still not full days though).

Third week of attending this daycare rolls around. Wednesday morning, 15 minutes after we dropped him off, she has us come back and get him because he threw up. Again, understandable so we come back and pick him up (was not sick at all the rest of the day though) and my husband had to call out of work. Next day (Thursday) she texts me and says that she doesn't feel comfortable with our son at her daycare anymore (when she also knew that Friday was the first day we needed her for the full day because my husband and I both had work commitments all day). She said she wanted to talk about it in person but since we didn't come in that day she needed to text it (why she didn't say anything the morning before when we had to come back and pick him up or wait until Friday, I'm not sure). Her reasoning was that "he has the worst separation anxiety that she has ever seen". Again, surprising that a daycare wouldn't give a 9-month old child more than a 2.5 week chance to adjust to starting daycare for the first time. After trying to explain why I was upset and that it wasn't fair for her to have us pay to "lock in his spot" and then kick him out just a week later she didn't seem to understand why it mattered and refused to give a refund for the entire missed week or for the 3 missed days of the current week. She then says its still my own choice to not bring him on Friday (as if I would bring him to someone's house that just told me they don't want to watch him anymore). Oh and she also had us sign a contract saying we are required to give a 30-day notice if we are planning to end our time with her but she couldn't even give us a couple weeks notice at least. All of this just makes me wonder if he really threw up that Wednesday morning or if she just made that up so she didn't have to watch him. Just odd timing.

My biggest problem with this entire situation is just the lack of communication on Katy's part. I specifically asked her multiple times in person what her thoughts were on how he's doing and if she thinks he will adjust okay, and she reassured me over and over again. Never once did she say "let's just give him a few weeks and if he is still not doing better maybe it's too soon for him" or "let's just do a 2 week trial and decide what's best from there" or anything. No indication that we needed to start looking for another daycare. No communication on the issue until she texted me and said she doesn't want him to come anymore.

To top it off, in the text she sent me she also said "I know not everyone can afford to stay home with their kids but I really do think that would be best for your son". Oh wow thanks for the information on my son guess I'll just go quit my job now. So rude and really disappointing to get that comment from her.

When I went to pick up our son's things from her house, she did end up leaving a refund for just that last Friday that she canceled on. She also only gave back one of our bottles (uncleaned) when we left two but I was just so done with the situation by that time I didn't even care to say anything to her about it.

In conclusion, Katy is unfortunately unreliable, rude, and will not care to communicate or work with you or your children should any issues arise.

Great caregiver that is extremely attentive to the children and very accomodating with my schedule. Kathryn has a very kind and warm attitude. Highly recommend!

Kind and happy daycare the kids are always smiling happy and running around.