Monday, February 22, 2010

Daycare plans

We're at a loss for what to do for daycare for the baby now. We put him on the waiting list at Mara's school back in September and asked to get him in at the end of May. Today, John found out that they won't be able to get him in until the end of June. What? They wait until we're about to have this baby to tell us that we'll have to wait a month longer to get him in when they've already known they needed a place for him for almost six months?

We were already considering switching the baby to a different daycare this fall – somewhere closer to home. Since Mara's going to be in kindergarten, we would like him to be at a place where we could send Mara to after-school care if necessary (depending on how things work out) or not have to drive far to pick him up if I'm able to work from home after school. That means we would be moving him toward the end of August anyway, so it looks like he might never go to Mara's school. And it seems silly to find a new school for Mara right now with just a few months left before she would be leaving the full-time daycare setting anyway, so we might have to have them in two separate places for a few months until Mara starts kindergarten.

With all that said, anyone have any suggestions for how to find a new daycare?

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