Day Care

Ugh.

Our daughter's daycare provider -- who's been watching A. since she was four months old -- is moving to a larger, cooler city to the south. Because A. has not reached the 30 month threshold, her daycare options are significantly limited. Our city is experiencing a chronic daycare crunch for kids younger than 2.5, and we're caught up in the middle of it. We've been scrambling for the last two weeks to drum something up by September 19, but the options have not been especially pleasing. She won't hit 30 months until the end of October, so there's a very real possibility that when September 19 comes, she'll be without any day care whatsoever for a full five weeks.

Because I have a somewhat flexible schedule, it would be possible for me to take care of her more or less full time; this would require finding a daytime sitter for a few hours twice a week to watch the kid while I'm teaching, but I'd be almost completely unable to do the things I need to do to prepare and deliver my courses. I'd have no time to prep lectures, read, or grade papers and tests. I'd be hosed, in other words.

Enter the mother in law. Whom I love dearly. Who is the greatest mother in law a man could ask for. Whom our daughter thinks is the greatest person in the world.

She has volunteered to come live with us for five. Whole. Weeks. With her yappy, 15-pound dog. In a house with two cats and two Newfoundlands, one of whom will be recovering from her third knee surgery in a year.

I adore my mother in law, and I'm grateful that she's willing to provide child care for five weeks. But the idea of someone else -- anyone else -- living in my house for five. Whole. Weeks.

Well, this is how I'm kind of feeling right now:

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Jane said:

Could you not put stuff up like that? I wasn't really expecting it and I usually try to avoid viewing this kind of thing. It's too short to even really stop it in time when I realized where it was going. And no, I don't even care if it was fake or not; that's not the point.

Posted at 02:02 PM, on August 29 2008

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LeAnn said:

I too was surprised and sickened. Overdramatize much?

Posted at 05:12 PM, on August 30 2008

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