Daycare

Adjusting to being a parent is difficult but one of the biggest challenges has been child care.  For the first few months Margaret took maternity leave and stayed home with Josh.  Care was supplemented by help from grandparents and other relatives but Margaret did the majority of the work.  When her maternity leave ended we got a nanny who is a college student home for the summer.  She just finished her last full week before she goes back to school so we have been in full childcare search mode.

We decided we would try to find a daycare for Josh but that has been quite a challenge.  We didn't quite have our s**t together to start soon enough so it has been a bit of a mess.  After doing lots of searching (mostly by Margaret) we found 3 possible choices that Margaret would look at.  The day  before she was to visit a few of the places, two of them called saying the spot was no longer available.  One had the spot filled and the other had trouble with an assistant and could no longer take another child.  That meant we only had one option left and it was only for MWF.

Margaret looked at the one option we had left and thought it was ok.  She didn't think it was bad but had concerns about how Josh would adapt to that environment (It was very loud and crowded).  That morning Margaret and I found another option which Margaret then looked at.  She said this second option was much better and it looks like it will be a winner.  I visited on Friday with Margaret and Josh and we signed him up.  It looks like a nice place and hopefully Josh will adapt well to it.  He will start five days a week in a week.

Becoming a parent has completely changed our lives for the best.  We knew this would happen but probably didn't fully appreciate what that meant.  Getting used to having Josh as part of our lives has been a joy but I certainly didn't appreciate how difficult it would be make sure he was being taken care of.  Hopefully we will like the daycare we choose and Josh's care will be settled for a while.

Here are some Josh pictures unrelated to daycare:

Never too early to learn how to drive!

Josh made his own fort!

Josh was difficult to contain in our room